Blogging @ OpenU

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Blogging @ OpenU Wilfred Rubens

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Blogging @ OpenUWilfred Rubens

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In 25 minutes

• A personal story about the benefits of blogging

• Why and how blogging @ OpenU

• And what about Twitter?

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My history

• End 1995: editor BVEnet

• 1999: www.wilfredrubens.com

• 2003: personal blog (what is blogging?)

• Almost everyday ('a monthly weblog')

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Some facts

• More than 4100 posts

• More than 4280 comments

• About 400 page views per day

• About 1200 subscribers

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Some benefits

• Personal learning environment

• Personal archive

• Networking

• Working more efficiently

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Some benefits• Free access to conferences (e.g. OEB)

• Advisory board & program committee conferences

• Editor 3 specials e-learning

• Presentations, workshops, keynotes (paid and not paid)

• Consultancy & jobs (opportunities)

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Benefits blogging• Learning

• Networking

• Reputation

• Transparency

• Profit

• ROI after 3 years: it's an investment!

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Why blogging @ OpenU

• Transparency and dissemination

• Reputation (personal and OU)

• Profit (new students, projects, paid subscribers, consultancy)

• Power network: focus and filtering!

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How blogging @ OpenU?

• It's about quality, stupid!

• Be selective

• Regular publishing (collaborate)

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Set up blog posts• Personal style, your opinion

• Reflect

• Connect

• Your speciality, experiences

• Stimulating title

• Lead

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Editorial and technical guidelines

• Dutch is preferabel

• Mark your language

• Bullets and bold

• Use of pictures

• Crossposting, not attending

• .....

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And what about Twitter?

• Great tool for notifications (e.g. blog posts)

• Selective use of #CELSTEC

• 'What are you doing?' can be interesting

• Great tool for asking questions and providing advice in 140 characters

• Impression of conferences (sphere and content; #oeb11)

• It can be fun! (virtual coffee machine)

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