Elisa Mason wrote to me yesterday with an interesting work lead, but rather than talk about me again, perhaps you should visit the Forced Migration blog which she maintains. This got me thinking about blogs which aren’t personal journals but professional resources – a similar effort is If you only read one thing this week…, which is a really interesting idea (well done Anna!). This blog is supposed to provide paths to useful resources, although it’s hard to tell if we’re on the right track.
It makes sense though – blogs are a great way of updating useful content, although the problem is that as time goes by, that content drops off the bottom of the blog and there’s a danger that people won’t find it. Social tags are much better; but best of all is the combination of blog (for the personal touch) and social tags (for the memory).
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Thanks for the shout-out Paul! Anna and my blog is aimed primarily at a Mercy Corps audience – it goes out in MC’s internal newsletter every two weeks, and is an attempt to bring a digest of interesting material to the MC world, rather than provide a repository of knowledge – I agree that things ‘falling off the bottom’ is an issue, but this is an effort in ephemera, to be sure – more like an interactive newsletter than a library!
Keep up the good work – I love your blog,
Nick
Yet another example of Mercy Corps leading the pack when it comes to finding new ways to reach the internal audience. Interesting that you say it’s more like a newsletter than a library – it seems that blogs can be many things to many people, and that blog piled on top of blog can be something altogether different…
Another excellent resource.The format is similar to that of a blog, with a comment section accompanying each article and an RSS feed to announce new additions.