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Melissa A. Venable, PhD
Amy J. Hilbelink, PhD
E-LEARN 2010 – Orlando, FL
Context & Purpose
What are elearning and project management
bloggers writing about?
How can you manage so much information?
Who are you reading? Some suggestions…
Our Approach
Set A Set B
project management distance education
course development online
instructional systems
development
elearning
curriculum development best practices
Information Collected
Search terms
General topic
Blog name
Blog URL
Author(s)
Target audience
Recent posts - topics
Date of last post
Individual/Business/School
What we Found
36 unique blogs…
50% Individuals
33% Business Organizations
17% Educational Institutions
# of blogs (%) Audience description
21 (58.33%) Educators and eLearning Professionals
7 (19.44%) Managers and Business Professionals
3 (8.33%) Students
2 (5.56%) Information Technology Professionals
1 (2.78%) Seeking Government Records
1 (2.78%) Nonprofit Businesses
1 (2.78%) Hiring Managers
# of blogs (%) Topic Area
15 (41.67%) Technology Tips and Tools
9 (25.00%) eLearning Design and Development
5 (13.89%) Business Practices and Marketing
3 (8.33%) School Specific Information
2 (5.56%) Professional Development
1 (2.78%) Information Technology Information
1 (2.78%) Portfolio Items
The Rapid E-Learning Blog – Tom Kuhlmann
http://articulate.com/rapid-elearning
eLearning Technology – Tony Karrer
http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/
Instructional Design & Development Blog – DePaul
http://www.iddblog.org/
The @task Blog – @task Project Management
http://blogs.attask.com/blog/strategic-project-management
Suggested Reading
Next Steps
Search Engine Optimization
Add search engines – Bing, Lijit
Blog Directories
Survey the Bloggers
Blogging Platforms
Aggregators – tools and techniques
Blogs and Publishing
Read on…
Blog. (2010). In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved
from http://www.merriam-webster.com
Technocrati, Inc. (2009). State of the Blogosphere 2009.
Retrieved from
http://technorati.com/blogging/feature/state-of-the-
blogosphere-2009/
The Official Google Blog. (2010, April 14). Replay it: Google
search across the Twitter archive. Message posted to
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/replay-it-
google-search-across-twitter.html
Contact Us!
Melissa A. Venable, PhD
Blog: http://www.design-doc.com
mvenable@design-doc.com
@Melissa_Venable
Amy J. Hilbelink, PhD
ahilbelink@kaplan.edu
813-422-0543
@AHilbelink

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Blogosphere Elearn2010

  • 1. Melissa A. Venable, PhD Amy J. Hilbelink, PhD E-LEARN 2010 – Orlando, FL
  • 2. Context & Purpose What are elearning and project management bloggers writing about? How can you manage so much information? Who are you reading? Some suggestions…
  • 3. Our Approach Set A Set B project management distance education course development online instructional systems development elearning curriculum development best practices
  • 4. Information Collected Search terms General topic Blog name Blog URL Author(s) Target audience Recent posts - topics Date of last post Individual/Business/School
  • 5. What we Found 36 unique blogs… 50% Individuals 33% Business Organizations 17% Educational Institutions
  • 6. # of blogs (%) Audience description 21 (58.33%) Educators and eLearning Professionals 7 (19.44%) Managers and Business Professionals 3 (8.33%) Students 2 (5.56%) Information Technology Professionals 1 (2.78%) Seeking Government Records 1 (2.78%) Nonprofit Businesses 1 (2.78%) Hiring Managers
  • 7. # of blogs (%) Topic Area 15 (41.67%) Technology Tips and Tools 9 (25.00%) eLearning Design and Development 5 (13.89%) Business Practices and Marketing 3 (8.33%) School Specific Information 2 (5.56%) Professional Development 1 (2.78%) Information Technology Information 1 (2.78%) Portfolio Items
  • 8. The Rapid E-Learning Blog – Tom Kuhlmann http://articulate.com/rapid-elearning eLearning Technology – Tony Karrer http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/ Instructional Design & Development Blog – DePaul http://www.iddblog.org/ The @task Blog – @task Project Management http://blogs.attask.com/blog/strategic-project-management Suggested Reading
  • 9. Next Steps Search Engine Optimization Add search engines – Bing, Lijit Blog Directories Survey the Bloggers Blogging Platforms Aggregators – tools and techniques Blogs and Publishing
  • 10. Read on… Blog. (2010). In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com Technocrati, Inc. (2009). State of the Blogosphere 2009. Retrieved from http://technorati.com/blogging/feature/state-of-the- blogosphere-2009/ The Official Google Blog. (2010, April 14). Replay it: Google search across the Twitter archive. Message posted to http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/replay-it- google-search-across-twitter.html
  • 11. Contact Us! Melissa A. Venable, PhD Blog: http://www.design-doc.com mvenable@design-doc.com @Melissa_Venable Amy J. Hilbelink, PhD ahilbelink@kaplan.edu 813-422-0543 @AHilbelink

Editor's Notes

  1. Welcome! How many of you read blogs written by eLearning and project management professionals? How many of you write your own blogs or contribute to professional blogs?
  2. Aggregating, filtering, and monitoring the constant flow of information posted on blogs can be a daunting endeavor. Importance of weeding through everything out there and finding the information that you need, that will inform your practice, be helpful to you in some way. Blogging is becoming more popular, more accepted…. But not regulated or peer reviewed in any way, so some curation is necessary on the reader’s part. How we got here – one of us currently blogging about instructional design and technology and one of us contemplating a blog – looking for a niche….. And of course, we are constantly sending each other links of blogs/blog posts we find interesting. Decided it would be interesting to make a more organized effort and so documented this effort.
  3. Created search terms that we felt relevant to our fields and interests. Combined the search terms you see here, used Google, and filled in a spreadsheet with details about the blogs (based on definition in paper) came up on first page of search results Now – we realize that search engine results, analytics, and algorithms are another whole presentation! But needed to start somewhere. Also – we did this in March of this year, so the search now might provide different results.
  4. We independently filled out a spreadsheet with our search results – using these column headers. Then combined our spreadhseets and culled out the unique blogs Our focus on reporting for this paper included: Individual/Business/school – who ‘sponsors’ the blogs? Target Audience – who are they writing for? Topic(s) covered – what are they writing about?
  5. Just a couple of the blogs we found in this process and share here. A full list with URLs in proceedings! As Appendix.
  6. What we found here is just a snapshot of what was up and running, with the limitations we placed, over a couple of days in March 2010…. New blogs appear on the scene (and leave the scene) every day. As we (Amy and MV) continue our quest as bloggers – looking for niche, staying current, joining the global conversation as bloggers…. We want to continue to organize our assessment and filtering of what is out there….
  7. For more about the references used in our paper, please refer to the proceedings file. Here are a couple of items to get you started.
  8. Thank you! Questions?