Speaking of the Blog, Dan or Sean, can you post about our EAC class graduating tomorrow?
I'll provide you some details (How many, etc) after they graduate tomorrow. --Nate --- In [email protected], adelmand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Corporate blogs are usually used in addition to corporate websites to > highlight important events or specific types of information. They do > not replace a good website, but rather supplement it. One of the > many advantages of blogging is that blogging software generates > "feeds" of the information in the blog. The feeds allow interested > parties to see what has been added to the blog in a chronological > manner, similar to e-mail. Blogs allow people seeking information > about Bworks at least two additional ways to find it. More ways to > find information = more publicity and involvement. It's worth noting > that blogs have become an integral part of communication via the > internet (there are more than 113 million of them) and are published > by virtually every print publication (p-d publishes 45 blogs), TV > station (KSDK has 7) and fortune 500 company in the country. The > city's mayor even has two opinion-based blogs and regularly publishes > video and audio segments. > > In the really broad overview, myspace, web sites, blogs, RSS, Wikis, > google docs and e-mail are all ways of both delivering and receiving > information. These methods differ from nearly all previously > existing media in that they allow "two-way, many-to-many" > communication and sometimes collaboration. This can be difficult to > cope with at first, as it can be a bit like carrying on a dozen > conversations at once. Some researchers speculate that we're seeing > a resurgence in the victorian idea of "the public persona", because > constant many-to-many communication requires a very consistent > presentation of oneself that most non-famous folks are unfamiliar > with. Additionally, all that incoming information has to be filtered > somehow, (not all of it is unbiased or even true) and there are some > surprising solutions to that dilemma also. In any case, many-to-many > communication is here for the long haul - whether it be in the form > of blogs, websites, wikis or something else that doesn't yet exist. > > Dan > > > On Dec 6, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Sean Burns wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 07:42:14PM -0000, Robert S. DeLorey wrote: > > I'm not into blogging but just for the hell of it I went to our > > website and clicked on the link to the BWorks Blog. I read through > > the few messages that have been posted and for the life of me can't > > figure why the blog exists, other than to fragment our > > communications. > > While there, I ran across a note about our lack of internet service > > for our graduates and chased some of the hyperlinks. The following > > paragraphs are form the CIN website: > > Obviously it's useful if you're learning something, like not > having Internet service for our graduates. Interestingly, before > I started the blog, that bit of news had been on the website for > MONTHS! But you learned it from the blog. > > Also, regarding the fragmenting of communications, when I first > proposed the blog, why didn't you say something then? > > sean > -- > Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:05:26 -0600 > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
