[Cc-webedit] [mediateam] RE: [climatecampoutreach] Re: blogging

Sun Jun 20 15:48:24 UTC 2010

Yes - we always planned on developing the blogs on the current site but never really got it off the ground. so it's great if people  have the energy for that.

On the technical side, the current blog on the site doesn't work particularly well - it's awkward to use and, as Simon says, it doesn't behave like a conventional  blog- in fact it's a series of normal website pages, masquerading as blog posts. 

But i don't think it's a good idea to have a blog separate to the main site - this will create a lot of confusion and play havoc with Search Engine Optimisation. And it will make the current site appear even more static than it already is. We should be able to find a way for blogs to work better on the main site - either by improving the current blogging tool or embedding something like wordpress. And we should look at making it more prominent on the homepage.

I think it's also not good to have one working group responsible for some of the website and another responsible for the other bits - that will get really messy. Obviously, there should be plenty of collaboration, particularly if there's more energy for this in the social media group, as there certainly seem to be - but content creation for the website requires some co-ordination, and by it's nature that would suggest it remains in one group.

But I don't want to pour cold water on this - 'cos i really support the idea of more blogging......

Alistair

On 18 Jun 2010, at 19:34, Natalie Szarek wrote:

> I think at some point before Blackheath we had a discussion about comments on blogs. I think we should have them, as long as they are moderated according to clear guidelines. (eg, we won't block comments which challenge the points that are made on the blog, but if they are abusive we won't approve them).
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> On 18 June 2010 10:06, Anyetta <applepeelings at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lots of people who blog as a way of publicising their work parallel blog on various different blogging sites (LJ, wordpress, blog etc) so that people who prefer to read blogs via a friends page or whatever can follow them without extra effort, putting a little thing at the side or wherever of each being like 'you can also follow us on [link] livejournal, [link] wordpress, [link] twitter, [etc etc], on on [link] our webpage.' so that people who find them by chance can follow in the way most convenient. 
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> Might be worth doing that - people who regularly check the site can still just read updates on the site can carry on doing that; people who'd like to but never really get round to typing in the url, but might read if they could have it drip-fed via their own blog's friends page, can read it however else. Just needs someone to take on responsibility for making sure stuff gets duplicated.
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> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:17 AM, simon collister <simon_collister at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Coolio
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> See below for some immediate responses. Other feedback welcome....
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> >> I'm not sure which list it makes sense to take it forward on - I guess social media, but perhaps people from all these lists should get in touch with Simon if they're interested in being involved? 
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> I guess social media; possibly the web team (but see below for clarification) and possibly the media team. My initial thoughts are justified by the following:
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> - social media: most likely (but not exclusively) the people creating blog content and proactively contacting other bloggers. At the very least a touchpoint for the blog.
> - web team: possibly for user set-up but I know some people already have blog access so if resources are limited maybe crack on were possible providing webedit team are happy
> - media team:  also likely to be creating/re-purposing content and sharing stuff for the editorial calendar; also necessary fro signing -off posts. So maybe individuals not on the SM list and wanting to get involved join the SM list otherwise media team list is pinged to get sign-off
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> >> Also are you talking about a Media Team Google Doc? Or actually I guess one you haven't set up yet.
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> I was thinking of just creating one, but happy to feed into one if it already exists
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> >> The main question for me about the blog functionality on our site is whether it's really identifiable as a blog? It doesn't have comments, I don't know if it has trackback (whatever that is), it doesn't have easysharing via social media etc. The first step is definitely to set ourselves up so we can be regularly putting out content, but we need to work out how to get this stuff to be part of it as well. Also, it's kind of buried in the bottom corner of the site. I think this makes sense to some extent as our website is mainly a billboard to get people to come to our events (as opposed to eg. the Plane Stupid website which is essentially a blog) but I wonder if we should have a semi-separate site for the blog, which has its own identity and homepage?
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> Um. Yes. All valid and raised previously :) I don;t think we have time or resource to chnage this now. As a very basic point if we could make two small changes to make great steps forward it would be allowing comments and homepage visibility. But I'mhappy to work with what we've got.
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