[Cc-webedit] [mediateam] RE: [climatecampoutreach] Re: blogging
Jon Leighton
j at jonathanleighton.com
Sun Jun 20 16:01:32 UTC 2010
Hi all,
As the techie who implemented the current site and blog, I want you to
know that I have been following along with this conversation. I have a
bunch of proposals which I think will deal with a lot of the problems. I
haven't quite finished writing it up but will hopefully send it round in
the next 24 hrs.
Cheers,
Jon
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 16:48 +0100, Alistair Alexander wrote:
> 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).
> >
> > Natalie
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:17 AM, simon collister
> > <simon_collister at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Coolio
> >
> > See below for some immediate responses. Other
> > feedback welcome....
> >
> >
> > >> 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?
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > - 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
> >
> >
> > >> Also are you talking about a Media Team Google
> > Doc? Or actually I guess one you haven't set up yet.
> >
> >
> > I was thinking of just creating one, but happy to
> > feed into one if it already exists
> >
> >
> > >> 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?
> >
> >
> > 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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