Idealware: Blogging Online Webinar: July 24th

 

Idealware has been running a series of Webinars.  The next Webinar is "Choosing A Blogging Tool" and I'm co-facilitating with Laura Quinn, mainly to answer questions about working with tools once you've made a selection.  I refer to this as the Three C's of Blogging - Comfort, Competencies, and Capacity.  You can more about the "adoption issues" here:

The C's of Blogging by Beth's Blog
Advice To Would Be Bloggers by Bokarko
Tips from a New Blogger by Anne's Spot
Novice Blogger Excitement by Larry Lippke
Weblogs As Disruptive Technology for Extension by Deborah Coates
Encouraging Educators to Blog by Martin Weller

A few months ago I was leading a workshop session and I discovered that almost all the participants were already blogging, but for about 1 year.   So, what if you've been blogging for a year or so -- what advice matters?  What can you expect?  I observed that some bloggers - including me - experience a burnout or tiredness or ennui.  When that happens to me,  I go back to Ken Yarmosh's "7 Ways to Avoid Blogging Burnout."  I love the Robert Frost quote -- "If there is no discovery for the writer, there is not discovery for reader."  The advice is very good.

The best musical advice I ewer got from my flute teacher, Marcel Moyse, was "make yourself like a baby when approaching Mozart and pretend you're discovering it for the first time!"  This is one reason why I want to be inspired by those just beginning their blogging journey.