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2 Contents Introduction Case Studies Reasons For Having a Blog Approaches to Providing a Blogging Services What are the Issues? Addressing the Issues Sharing Best Practices What Next? Building A Community What Have You Learnt? Personal Action Plans Conclusions Case Study

3 Building A Community You’re in the process of setting up a blog or you have a blog which you want to enhance. Discussing options, sharing experiences, learning from mistakes made by others can be useful Options for sharing: Engagement with mailing lists (e.g. lis-bloggers ) Participation in social networks (e.g. Ning, Facebook, etc.) Participation at events (e.g. MW 2008!)

4 What Have You Learnt? Some questions: What new aspects of blogging have you learnt from today’s workshop? To what extend has today’s workshop confirmed existing views or experiences? What will you do differently as a result of today’s workshop? Personal Action Plans To help your reflections, please complete the Personal Action Plans handout Personal Action Plans To help your reflections, please complete the Personal Action Plans handout

5 Questions Any questions?