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. <br>
<br>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.<br>
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Coolio<br><br>See below for some immediate responses. Other feedback welcome....<div class="im"><br><br>>> 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? <br><br></div>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:<br>
<br>- 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.<br>- 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<br>
- 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<div class="im">
<br> <br>>> Also are you
talking about a Media Team Google Doc? Or actually I guess one you
haven't set up yet.<br>
<br></div>I was thinking of just creating one, but happy to feed into one if it already exists<div class="im"><br><br>
>> 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?<br><br></div>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.<div class="im">
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