Dear friends, Let me correct the typo ‘deliverance’ to ‘relevance’ in the last paragraph. In the strict sense it is not a typo, I was dictating my finger to type the word ‘relevance’ some tricky impulses played in between in made my fingers type very different word deliverance J
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:30 AM, aprasad <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends, > > As almost other sectors of communication, Blogs also have a very big mass > of audience. For this audience penetration, though Blogs are generally > considered personal publishing, almost all the Corporates in the world > maintain Corporate Blogs. > > I hope we can combine together the ideas of Blog and News Letter. The major > items of the Blog in a given period will become the content for the > Newsletter, and as Dr. Wayne has mentioned, it will talk for the WE > community among those who are not active in WE site and not a frequent > visitor of our blog. > > In the Blog and newsletter we may find place for corporate advertisements > that have deliverance to our mission. It can be advertisements about events, > ODL courses, publications, public awareness campaigns etc etc > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Wayne Mackintosh < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Valerie, >> >> I'm pleased that you have reminded us of the Newsletter and blog ideas! >> * >> Thoughts about a Newsletter* >> >> Yes -- the OER Foundation definitely wants to support and promote a >> newsletter for the WikiEducator community. There is so much happening in >> our family around the world and we need to keep folk up-to-date with what's >> happening. A newsletter is also a great way to connect the disconnected >> :-). It's difficult for WikiEducator's who are less active on the site to >> know about all the exciting things that are happening. WikiEducator will >> certainly be able to put the community journalism concept to good use ( >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_journalism) >> >> In short - -the OER Foundation is very supportive of this idea and I want >> to see a professional, high quality quarterly newsletter for our family. As >> you know, WikiEducator will succumb to corporate advertising on our open >> education sites. However, I'm wondering about how the community feels about >> advertising in a professional Newsletter? We need funding to support the >> editorial and professional work associated with a high quality newsletter >> (notwithstanding the contributions from WikiEducators around the world for >> the newsletter.) Thoughts? >> * >> Thoughts about a WikiEducator blog* >> >> Over the last three years -- I've been wanting to host a WikiEducator >> blog. In fact, we installed Wordpress on our server with the view to a >> WikiEducator community blog. However, we need to do a little thinking about >> how best to implement a "community" blog for WikiEducator, for example: >> >> >> - Do blog posts on a collective WikiEducator blog represent the views >> of WikiEducator as a community? The blog sphere is typically a personal >> publishing space -- as opposed to a collective community voice. What is >> the >> approach that WikiEducator should adopt? >> - For example, While WikiEducator was operating under the auspices of >> the Commonwealth of Learning --- understandably a "blogging" policy was >> introduced by the agency, which restricted freedom of speech of >> individuals >> wanting to blog about different issues. Where do we draw the line between >> personal views and collective organisational opinion of an international >> project? >> - The OER Foundation is very keen to host and support a community blog >> for WikiEducator. However, we need advice and support from the community >> regarding the best way to do this. Perhaps we need to establish a blogging >> workgroup to think about all the issues and propose a set of guidelines >> for >> a WikiEducator blog - technically, hosting a dedicated blog for WE is no >> problem and the OERF will support this. However we need a clear set of >> guidelines developed by the community regarding the best way to implement. >> >> >> Thanks Valerie -- great suggestions and thanks for reminding us of these >> gaps in our community :-) >> >> Cheers >> Wayne >> >> >> >> >> >> 2009/11/4 valerie <[email protected]> >> >> >>> Did anything ever come of earlier suggestions that there be a >>> WikiEducator blog with multiple contributors or a collaboratively >>> written newsletter? >>> >>> I poked around and didn't find much. >>> >>> old discussions >>> >>> http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/fa1128ff6e7401a4/dfa591a45e4391f6?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=newsletter#dfa591a45e4391f6 >>> >>> old pages >>> http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:NewsLetter >>> >>> Write an article for a magazine/newsletter styled publication >>> describing the wiki concept and how people can become involved >>> http://wikieducator.org/WikiMaster/WikiApprentice_Level_1 >>> >>> I'm having my students work collaboratively in small groups to come up >>> with a WikiEducator promotion. >>> http://www.wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Fall_2009#Final_Projects >>> >>> Naturally, their first question - Where is the WikiEducator >>> newsletter? Umm, I'll get back to you on that... >>> >>> Is there a good answer to this question? >>> >>> ..Valerie >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. >> Director, >> International Centre for Open Education, >> Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. >> Board of Directors, OER Foundation. >> Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org >> Mobile +64 21 2436 380 >> Skype: WGMNZ1 >> Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg >> >> >> >> > > > > > > Anil > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad > http://www.apletters.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
