I didn't mention any specific tool for exchange, although I support Amanda's
description of the virtues of a Wordpress blog. Some people earlier in the
discussion reacted strongly against FB, and I think Twitter might be
overkill for what constitutes news in our community. I'm going to look up
Hoot Suite now to see what it is all about.
Roger
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Brian Hotson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> The blog idea is the most applicable in this situation considering the
> current tools available, and I agree with Roger (am I agreeing with you?)
> that Facebook and Twitter are equally important. I’ve started a Twitter feed
> for our writing centre, and in a few short months managed to attract and
> follow a number of like minded and equally interested writing centres,
> educators, etc. The writing centre’s FB page is doing equally well, and has
> become an important information hub for the centre and student and faculty.
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> Using a posting tool like HootSuite, the management of content for
> Wordpress, FB and Twitter, among of others, may be streamlined. A tool like
> HootSuite allows for single posts to be made across several social media
> platforms at the same time, at specific times and/or intervals, etc. (I do
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> *From:* casll-l: Canadian Association for the Study of Language and
> Learning (Inkshed) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Amanda
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> *Sent:* Thursday, June 09, 2011 8:23 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: Facebook Group: Newsletter Site****
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> Indeed, an interesting topic! Yes, I think the time has come to bring on
> blog-shedding. An academic blog is the perfect means to keep our community
> updated, discuss issues close to our hearts, retain a history of our
> conversations, and raise our global profile--all at the same time. ****
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> I'd also like to offer a few practical advantages to taking the blog route:
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> *•Cost.* A basic WordPress.com blog site is free, and even the free
> version offers some nice little tools and features. It is cheap, but
> doesn't "look" cheap.****
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> *•Access.* One person sets up the site and keeps an eye on it, but others
> can serve as authors and editors--ensuring that the site is updated as often
> as needed. ****
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> *•Technical expertise.* None, really. Just eloquence and an eye for
> style! It isn't even necessary to know HTML. (One day our distant
> descendants will uncover old HTML runes and wonder what they meant.)****
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> *•Collaboration.* Even the most willing and selfless webmaster might one
> day decide to sail to the Azores. But a blog site doesn't require a
> webmaster; in fact, it thrives on an Inkshed-style collaboration and meeting
> of minds.****
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> *•Interaction.* I love discussions like this one, but I hate long email
> threads. In the flurry of talk, good stuff soon gets buried or pushed
> further and further to the right (of the screen, not the political
> spectrum). Listservs did the job when nothing else had been invented yet,
> but they are really best suited for announcements or notifications: for
> example, that twenty people have left outraged comments about your latest
> blog post. Blogs keep conversations in one place, allow easy response, are
> searchable, and as Tania mentioned, are archivable. ****
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> Finally, some of you know that we've been having a version of this
> discussion in CASDW-ACR. We were concerned about dependence on a single
> webmaster (however selfless) and/or institutional affiliation. If someone
> leaves a university or simply wants to step down, what happens to the site?
> Is it better to share the tasks of updating, announcing, and maintaining
> our online image? With these questions in mind, we're now testing a
> WordPress.com site that allows us to combine static, legacy web content with
> postings, updates, comments, and media like PDFs. ****
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> Cool note: when I Googled "Inkshed," the first three hits were inkshed.ca.
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> On 9 June 2011 08:51, Roger Graves <[log in to unmask]> wrote:****
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> An interesting thread (gmail keeps all these messages together for me as
> one string), but I'm starting to think there are two kinds of publications
> being talked about here. "The Newsletter" as it was in the 2000s wasn't
> really a newsletter (of the newsletter genre) at all. People were putting
> substantial pieces in it, and it really functioned more as a quasi -journal.
> The comments so far argue against using Facebook for that kind of
> publication, and I think I would agree with that. Now, news and less formal
> writing that I think we would associate with the genre of the newsletter
> really should be transmitted via one of the new electronic genres of
> publication--blog, FB, something like that. If we were starting a new
> writing studies organization in Canada in 2012, would we really create a
> newsletter to facilitate exchanges of information? I doubt it. ****
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> Part of the problem is generational: when did newsletters proliferate? I
> associate it with the advent of desktop publishing in the early 1980s, or
> perhaps it is associated with the typewriter and the spread of cheap
> photocopying in the 1970s. As a medium of exchange, it is one-way: from the
> authors, through the editor, to the readers. There is no liveliness to it,
> no flattening of the information hierarchy, no spreading of the author
> function. The "news" part of the Newsletter should migrate to a social media
> site--no question about that in my mind. The extended discourse part of the
> Newsletter should migrate to a publication with a more formal title, a clear
> review process/notification, and an online publication format (not paper).
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> If we want to attract new members and if we want to take advantage of the
> affordances of new technologies to support communication and interaction, we
> should re-think our traditional methods of exchanging information. Among the
> various advantages would be the ability to maintain a link to other
> blogs/online resources such as Rachel Cayley's blog on Academic Writing:**
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> http://explorationsofstyle.wordpress.com/author-bio/****
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> and Tania Smith's blog, EduRhetor: http://edurhetor.wordpress.com/****
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> The traditional Newsletter format isn't going to do that well.****
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