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Ok this is not a CSS centered post, but it covers other tech areas
I work at a University and I am the lone web developer/Marketing professional in a small marketing department. So it would be great to get some feeback or commisurate with others who this post may apply to.
We are tossing around the idea of a blog for our students. I have been reading blogs since the earlies and am not a blogger, so I am wondering about the part time bloggers here.
1. What is your experience with blogging like, what are your objectives in sharing your thoughts with others? What do you hate or love about your and other peoples blogs?
2. If you work at an educational insitution, do you have blogs and how have these blogs been received by students and staff. What are their purposes and how are they promoting school and informing others?
3. What is the best content management system to work with when creating and using a blog? -
I suppose it's a blog, but I like to keep a journal of what I find, little techniques, articles, technologies, so that others may learn.
As far as software I use a very simple blog called bit 5 blog. I know wordpress is very popular though, along with blogger, which seems to be more for people who don't know how to code though. -
I am curious as to the business case for offering students blogs? What is the intended purpose? Blogs are so popular and wide-spread, your offering will never compete with aol, blogger or myspace -- so why try? You will never create something that will get your students off of Myspace and onto your platform; know what I mean?
Something more viable might be forums (much like this one). This is a much better medium for just sharing thouhgts and experiences -- a blog is so much more (maybe too much for your needs).
My company is unfortunately running on .NET and has recently implemented CommunityServer as our blogging platform (highly recommend it if you are limited to a .NET environment).
To mrklu, i will say that blogger templates are highly customizable (with limitations) for those who do know how to code. -
kloche, are you saying you want to offer blogs to the student body so students can post their own blogs, or will you and your colleagues be writing a blog for students to read?
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to mringlein, I have seen well customized templates from Blogger, but most of the "professional" bloggers out there seem to use something else (wordpress, moveable type, etc), so I assume you would have more control over those, although I cannot speak from experience.
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CommentAuthoradjustafresh
- CommentTimeMay 31st 2006
I've used a few blogging platforms and customized others for clients. Blogger and WordPress were a breeze to customize. A client of mine wanted a custom TypePad blog which was actually pretty challenging to customize.
I'm confused about what "kloche" is trying to acheive as well, and I agree that it's pointless for the school to offer blogs to the students (if that's the goal) when there are already several free services that fill the blog niche. -
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Thanks for the comments was out on vacation yesterday.
Well I can't deny that this may be a case of "let's jump on that bandwagon too!" (ie entering the blogosphere with student blogs ).
We think that a student blog wil be great for prospective students and to a lesser degree current students. In the case of a MBA program we are evaluating having co-op students blog about their co-op terms and their experiences.
We are considering the integration of strategic blogs as part of the websites of some of our larger departments. But we are trying to determine at this point their intrinsic and personal value and what is the process of everyday bloggers.
--- Right now we aren't considering staff blogs, but I would love to find out more about them.
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A blog is traditionally unedited -- this is what separates it from an article with commenting abilities; doubt that is what you want. If this is just a marketing scheme -- I suggest putting up a small "experiences" website and posting students comments, thoughts and experiences; as opposed to them doing it for you. I would think you would want to "follow" the student through particular situations or advancements; not just "hey the food court is tasty and the girls are juicy" type of expereicnes.
You should want control and editing abilities -- I would think you want it to be rather structured and then present it in a fashion that comes across as more "reality" or "unscripted". It will look like a blog and sound like a blog, but doesnt have to be a blog.
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