Example of an organization using a blog to connect to blogosphere would be PSF on the right hand margin of this recent post re Wikieducator content:
http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-curriculum-writing.html PSF has a board, voting membership, charged with protecting trademark, language authenticity, PEPs, user groups, conferences. Individuals track whatever special interest groups (sigs) interest them, e.g. I'm prolific on edu-sig and do a lot of my business there. Seems to me that subscribing to specific wiki pages is an esoteric insider activity for those already sold on the idea of a wiki. Blogging is somewhat a different medium and you'll find bloggers who've never thought of Wikipedia as much beyond another static website, not thinking to take part in the editing, treating knowledge as read-only (same problem as Britannica had). So it makes sense to me that a Wiki-based subculture, wishing to recruit new citizens, might promote a more educated readership via some synthesis blog that shows up in blog chatter. At PSF we think about airport concourse signage as another way of advertising, like a lit sign in some tunnel in O'Hare with our "just use it" slogan. Kirby On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Jaapb <jaap.bos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > about blog or newsletter, > Most wiki-groups, like in wikipedia do communicate by subscribe to the > users pages of the wiki. (one receives a message when something has > changed there) > this google group is a newsletter, if you did subscribe to it. > > So knowing this, I don't get the point of another newsletter or blog > to communicatie. That would be slightly overdone I think. > kind regards Jaap > > > On Nov 4, 1:18 am, valerie <vtay...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Did anything ever come of earlier suggestions that there be a >> WikiEducator blog with multiple contributors or a collaboratively >> written newsletter? >> >> I poked around and didn't find much. >> >> old >> discussionshttp://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/fa11... >> >> old pageshttp://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:NewsLetter >> >> Write an article for a magazine/newsletter styled publication >> describing the wiki concept and how people can become >> involvedhttp://wikieducator.org/WikiMaster/WikiApprentice_Level_1 >> >> I'm having my students work collaboratively in small groups to come up >> with a WikiEducator >> promotion.http://www.wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Fall_2009#Final_Projects >> >> Naturally, their first question - Where is the WikiEducator >> newsletter? Umm, I'll get back to you on that... >> >> Is there a good answer to this question? >> >> ..Valerie > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
