Friday, August 1, 2008

Task 7

Comment on Blogs and Blogging!

To start the week we're encouraging you to have a look at the list of staff blogs and comment on a few of them.

If your blog is not on that list yet, you may want to go back and revisit tasks 2 and 3.

Blogging is not just about getting your message across. It's also for communication - other people can comment on what you have written, or respond to you on their own blog and link back to you. This is a public discourse. It could also be a way of starting arguments.

By now we should have a nice list of staff blogs. You can see them on the UQ library blog. You may not know which blog belongs to which person, but you can take a look at the blogs and see what they've written. Remember you can be anonymous by adopting any persona for your blog!

Discovery Exercise this week
Go into a few other people's blogs and add some comments. You may offer a word of encouragement, or read some people's reasons for blogging and tell them what you think of it.

Other people may comment on your blog.

Write a blog post about your experiences contributing to discussions on other people's blogs, and having people comment on your blog.

What's next?

You can subscribe to blogs to get notification when things are added or changed, but that will also be covered in steps 9 to 11 of 23 Things.

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