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Posted by Judi on Oct 17, 2008 in Business Use Speakers, Speakers • 4 commentsThe Dynamics of Group Blogging
Rosa Say will begin this session with a case study of Joyful Jubilant Learning (JJL) from her perspective as the site’s founder and managing editor. JJL is a group blog dedicated to collaborative online learning; the site was created in 2006 as the web-based forum of the Hoʻohana Community of self-proclaimed lifelong learners in “Web 2.0 and beyond.” To date 58 contributors, predominantly business authors and bloggers who are individually successful on the web in their own right, have tackled tertiary community learning on JJL via monthly themes as challenging as digital literacy and citizen publishing, and as joyfully fun as learning in pictures. How do they do it?
Within this presentation, participants can expect to learn:
- What is involved in the publishing of a group blog? How does an editorial calendar work?
- Why should you consider being a contributor to a group blog? What are the rewards and benefits?
- How does being a “group blogger” differ from being a “guest author?” What other expectations are there of group bloggers?
- How does a group blog’s Advisory Board function in compared to the Board of Directors of a business?
- How does group blogging complement emerging initiatives in social media–and vice versa?
In addition, Rosa will allow ample time for your questions and dialogue.
About Rosa Say
Rosa Say is a workplace aloha coach determined to reinvent our workplaces value by value, making them more meaningful, rewarding, and fulfilling for us all. As founder of Say Leadership Coaching, Rosa is widely known for her work leading the managing with aloha movement in Hawaiʻi and internationally; her book is considered an indispensable reference for managers and emerging leaders, and she their champion. Rosa currently publishes a monthly newsletter for business innovators called Hoʻohana ʻOlelo, and she writes for Managing with Aloha Coaching, an interactive virtual coaching site for all who are students and practitioners of the Managing with Aloha business philosophy globally. She is the managing editor of the popular group blog Joyful Jubilant Learning. You can follow Rosa on Twitter @rosasay.
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The PodCampers are going to experience a wonderful session, I’ll be there in spirit! Honk! Honk!
Judi, great idea. I like the concept of helping others become part of a constantly growing online social community of group bloggers. Web 2.0 is still in it’s adolescent stages and we are all still trying to find the extent of what is possible. Does this panel also discuss the role that interactive online video will play as more and more bloggers turn to websites that make it easier for them to publish their ideas in a format that looks comparable to what was formerly only possible by expert level website designers? I work for a website, Veeple.com, that monetizes online video by making anything clickable and thus more accessable through links that can be shared. The social possibilites of this are as exciting as the new advances in blog technology and could very well be combined to empower the new generation of bloggers who want to be as effective in their communication with others as possible..
Mahalo for your enthusiasm and encouragement Steve!
Aloha Will, i appreciate your comment, for this is the spirit of what we are hoping to achieve in this session. On the one hand we are pleased with how far group blogging has come (and want to share our lessons learned), yet on the other we realize we have only just begun to explore the possibilities which are very quickly emerging. Our intention is to open up the discussion so more ideas like yours can be shared.
I am not familiar with Veeple in particular though I have heard about the technology, and I appreciate your heads-up here: I’ll check it out a bit more before this session kicks off.
@Steve - thanks much for the “honk honk!” We will be live video streaming several of the sessions so please check the home page Friday morning and follow us on Twitter @podcamphawaii to get updates.
@ Will - I’ve been hearing about Veeple but not had a chance to try it yet. We do a lot of video and it’s on my list for after Podcamp. You are certainly invited to come join us and demo your service. Just drop me a note at podcamphawaii@gmail.com.