Jillaine Smith has a great post where she shares her personal learning journey (and frustrations) about "trying to integrate the use of blogging, tagging, technorati, social bookmarking, blah blah woof woof... into my efforts to publish a professional blog." She recaps what tools and techniques she has explored in order to discover how best to integrate all this activity into one's online publishing and online presence.
She ends with:
So... after hours of this, I can only hope that the investment of time and frustration and learning was worth it. I am going to trust that it was as I see so many of my colleagues using this technology well and powerfully and satisfyingly.
But I will say that I cannot possibly encourage my nonprofit clients to invest their limited time into this endeavor until the tools are MUCH simpler, much more integrated with each other, and there is a demonstrated benefit to such an investment.
It's inspired me to go back and reflect on how I'm (not too successfully at times) integrating all these techniques into my online publishing. One value of a blog is at least I captured my reflections from several months ago and a workflow diagrams. I realize now that I didn't adopt all those things all once! (Gotta get up to speed on that new visual mapping software ...and do some more diagrams)
Jillaine's post has sparked quite an interesting conversation in the comments. It made me think about the whole question "Can blog conversation be facilitated?" we had a few months ago. Also, just stumbled upon an interesting post on this from Amy Garan about blog comments and conversation.
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