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The Blogger blogging service http://www.blogger.com/ can be used with your York credentials right now. You can use blogs to create simple diary or news-like web sites. Blogs can be used as public marketing, for departmental news or for personal reflection. Whether a blog is traditionally "professional " or more and informal is your choice.

Note: Although integrated with your York Google account, it is not fully integrated with York Google Apps. This means that you can't limit access of your blog to "Just People at the University of York" or your department.

See Also: 31 Reasons You Should Blog About Your Research.

Some examples, in no particular order, of blogs currently in use at York include:

1. The Digital Learning Blog from the Library. This is an interesting collection of answers to a question put to 2nd year students on Twitter, collated using the Storify tool. Good advice being shared via the blog.
2. York Language and Linguistics - Making use of the dynamic themes in Blogger, this blog provides a "magazine like" view onto the department.
3. The Social Policy Research Unit - This blog makes good use of Labels to provide navigation to blog posts about events or publications etc.
4. Funding Opportunities in Physics.
5. The E-Learning Developments Team blog
6. The Humanities Research Centre Treehouse
7. The Sensory Stories Blog - Is a great example of a project blog as outreach.
1. University of York Web Team
2. University of York Accommodation Services Blog
3. White Rose Research Online
4. The York Philosophy Society
5. YODL: The York Digital Library Blog
6. York IT Academy Blog
   1. York University's Student Union (YUSU)
   2. The Election 2010 - Dept. of Politics at York - A great example of a "time limited" blog that engaged people in debates around the UK Election.
   3. Martin Webber - I am a Reader in Social Work at the University of York. This blog arises from my work and my reflections upon it. One of its aims is to help to bridge the gap between the academic and practice fields of social work. All views expressed here are my personal opinions and do not represent any organisation which I am affiliated to.
7. Sociology at York
8. Politics Department
   1. Digital Scholarship from the Library
   2. Visual Media in Archaeology. Student project.
   3. A York Student's Perspective on Heritage Practice: Student project.
9. http://yorkcareers.wordpress.com/
10. http://yorkpen.wordpress.com/
11. http://rowingjournal.com/
12. http://digital-archiving.blogspot.co.uk/
13. http://borthwickinstitute.blogspot.com/
14. http://hymslibrary.blogspot.com/
15. Historian On The Edge
16. David Beer's blog - Thinking Culture has an interesting post in which he reflects on why he is blogging.
17. Chris Renwick's Blog
18. I Hear Too
19. A Memory Less Ephemeral
20. Thermal Toy
21. A Human Ecologist
22. Collaborative Tools Project
    1. From a global perspective: The blog of the International Relations Office at the University of York

Finding more relevant blogs

The Guardian's Higher Education Network has an article on academic blogging and a useful list of "research blogs" in its directory. You can also find Higher Education tweets about blogging using the #HEblognetwork hashtag.

You can search for blogs that might be of interest to you using Google's Blog Search Engine.

My own work blog is the Collaborative Tools Project, in which I share Google Apps ideas. Having started this blog in Easter 2012 some posts now receive hundreds of views from around the world when posted ( and additionally promoted on Twitter and Google+ ).

This site is Work In Progress and forms part of the IT Services Google Apps at York help pages.