Accessing the Blog from a Mac September 18, 2008
Posted by dwbealer in Blogging.add a comment
Recently, when I tried to navigate to our blog, Safari would quit. I did not have this problem earlier this year. On Noelle’s suggestion, I searched for answers at WordPress.com. In the lower left corner there’s a link for “24/7 Support”, where I found some FAQs. One solution is to simply use Firefox 3. Another solution, if you still have the Tiger OS, is to get the 10.4.11 upgrade, which includes Safari 3.0.4.
Community Blogs January 15, 2007
Posted by Ben Craigo in Blended Learning, Blogging, e-Learning Tools.2 comments
Tony Karrer and I connected on the benefits of community blogs and posted that conversation on his blog. The one BIG thing that blogging and other social software allows is to tap into the current of informal learning in a way that hasn’t been done before. 80% of what we learn happens informally and blogging is a way to open a window into it, guide it. That’s a powerful concept.
Abandonment, Chaos and Blogs – Do You Care About the Comments? January 12, 2007
Posted by Ben Craigo in Blogging.4 comments
As Tony Karrer mentioned in his blog, reading your comment trail is a challenge and not everyone does it. And he posed several questions:
a. Do you read comments?
b. Do you ever go back to a blog to see comments later?
c. Do you use a mechanism such as CoComment to track conversations?
d. Do you ever leave a comment and not come back to see what was said?
These are pretty important questions.
Comments are what makes a good post GREAT. Comments validate or tear down your arguments. Comments are critical to the social networking aspect of blogging. Comments give you perspectives you normally wouldn’t get exposed to. Comments can direct and influence future conversation in a blog.
But keeping track of the breadcrumb trail you are leaving in the blogosphere can be a beast. (more…)
What is a Blog? December 20, 2006
Posted by Ben Craigo in Blogging.add a comment
WordPress, the organization and software we’re using for this blog, has a good introduction to what a blog actually is. This is a good place to start if you want to get more information on what a blog is and the features associated with a blog including common terminology.
Blogging Fast and Sloppy December 19, 2006
Posted by Ben Craigo in Blogging.6 comments
Caught this post on how to blog faster. The first thing that struck me was “Wow, this is very, um, detailed.” There are some great tips in there in how to construct different types of articles. Following these tips supposedly allows for the creation of a blog post on a first draft. That would be fantastic considering I draft, draft again, publish, edit the published post and perhaps tweak again.
The second thing that struck me was that some of comments pointed out the poor grammer or typos that were frequent and obvious. The retort was that blogging is more informal and having mistakes come with the territory. So is it OK to blog sloppy as long as you get your message across? (more…)
