Reasons to blog
What a great conference!
Anyone who missed the announcements: might be interested to know that the community now has a collaborative blogging site dedicated to conceptmapping, at http://blogs.conceptmapping.org
Here you can:
- Blog your paper or poster, and start an online conversation with those who attended or missed you at the conference. You could, for example, create a posting with a link to your poster or paper, and then summarise your visitors feedback. By doing so you can make those discussions the basis for new interaction.
- Make new connections by stating your interests and reading/responding to those of others. What’s the future of conceptmapping in your industry?
- Share resources, or create discussion around maps that you have made. You can save your map as a JPG and upload as a blog entry. It may take a little while for people to respond, but this can be a good way to get exposure among your peers.
Regards,
  Martin.
September 12th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
Dear Martin.
The community of blogs is a good resource for the CMC community and i hope it will become a privileged environment to meet all friends. But I believe a different solution could be better about the first point: “Blog your paper or poster, and start an online conversation with those who attended or missed you at the conference”. The problem is: “WHERE I post a comment about an author that is not blogged here? And: “Where the post about my paper(s) are posted?”. A less dispersive way to interact and be alerted for both authors and commenters could be to link a Discussion Thread to every contribute in the CMC program page http://cmc.ihmc.us/CMC2006Program.html
If it doesn’t matter the public character of these discussions, we could simply use e-mail.
What do you and Alberto Cañas think about these solutions?
September 12th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
Thanks Alfi.
I agree that there’s a dilemma about how to respond to a person who presented a paper or poster that has not created a blog for themselves.
One option would be for me to allocate a blog for each poster. The downside would be that the blog name (e.g. meena.blogs…) would have to be chosen by me rather than by the blog author.
Another alternative would be for me to create a central cmc2006 blog, and create a posting for every paper/poster presented.
In any case I firmly believe that we all have much to gain by making the conversations public. Unless the world-at-large sees our community in action each of us as individuals will find it difficult to convince newcomers of the merits of our convictions.