by Dave Riley
I have been laid up -- yes again! -- by a brutal bout of ill health. But to stay sane I worked on the blog for the Geelong Trades Hall Council in between trips to and from my 'sick' bed.
I keep telling people there's a lot you can do with blogs for this and that and the Geelong blog is a good example of using a simple blog platform as a organising hub. Simple. Unpretentious. All you need.
A similar application is the web presence (on a Blogger blog) of the coalition for the Victorian Climate Emergency Rally & Human Sign.There used primarily as a means to distribute the publications promoting the rally and promote the organising schedule. Short shelf life of course but it suits the requirements.
There should be more of it. You can blog anything you like.
Blogging rules
But I now follow a couple of basic parameters when I create a blog. It's a sort of working template -- a guideline.
- Create your blog on Blogger. Why? Because Blogger is so easy to hack to suit your requirements.It's also very free and offers a handy selection of widgets.
- Pair your blog with a wiki -- such as Wikispaces --which will give you a place to publish supplementary files you can link to for sharing or harnessing.
- Make sure you offer prominent email and feed subscriptions to the blog content. I use Feedblitz as it offers a lot of extras.
