1. The General Paper Blog Hoe Gim Yau
Sharing with you my experience with a blog that I created and have been maintaining for general paper
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2. hoe.gimyau@moe.edu.sg http://generalpaper.wordpress.com
Taught for almost 4 years
I can be reached
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3. Overview History of the General Paper blog Features
Challenges and issues
Possibilities
Your comments and questions
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4. Some history First post – 8 March 2006 190 posts so far
19 April – Mr Miyagi (miyagi.sg)
4 April 2007 ‘The Most Blog-Friendly Junior College of Singapore’ – Bjorn Lee
Department meeting to discuss strategies to improve our students’ learning and results
Successful college blog
With 15.5 Million Active Blogs, New Technorati Data Shows that Blogging Growth Seems to be Peaking - Heather Green
A little over a year
On average – about one post every other day. Surprise!
Today
Decided that we are The Most Blog-Friendly Junior College of Singapore
a co-founder of Entrepreneur 27 Singapore and also a contributing blogger for SGEntrepreneurs.com
E27 Singapore was founded in January 2006 by a group of students who returned from year-long technology entrepreneurship programs in Silicon Valley.
Divergent type of problem, invites multiple solutions
Market saturation
‘A dead blog’
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5. Features Web log – repository, archive, a shared notebook
Publicly accessible
Design elements - ease of use, creating content
Visually appealing, multimedia, diverse content
‘Web-native content’
Part of an ecosystem, the ‘Blogosphere’
What is good for?
Cumulative increase in content in one place
Reach broad audience
photos, mindmaps, music videos on youtube, links, agglomerate multiple evaluated sources, links to free software
You can simply find something interesting on another site and link to it, possibly with commentary or additional examples.
Types of content
the Blogosphere) that serves as a positive feedback loop: Whatever good postings exist are promoted through links from other sites. Eg. Miyagi
Chwee Bock’s
Gee Pee!
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6. Challenges and issues Nuisances, comment spam, liability – maintenance
Staying alive – sustainability, ownership
authorship
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7. Possibilities Contributions and co-authorship (control) Students’ work
Commercialisation
Paperless GP?
Autonomy
Adsense google Place Google ads on your site - and earn more money.
Left out a feature?
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8. Questions? Comments?
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9. Bibliography
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, October 17, 2005: Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes
WordPress.com - Features
Bloggers & Moderators liable for blog comments
With 15.5 Million Active Blogs, New Technorati Data Shows that Blogging Growth Seems to be Peaking - Heather Green
Will be posted on the blog
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