Why Blog?

Much of the popularity of blogs is that you decide their content and purpose. Whilst behaving like a news site, where most recent news appears at the top of the page, this one simple feature can be put to any number of uses, including:

    • Personal notebook.
    • A reflective Learning Journal for yourself or a class.
    • Departmental news.
    • Personal profile raising.
    • Prospective student outreach.
    • Improving management and co-worker transparency
    • Public or University of York-oriented marketing.

...but they are also easily used for ...

    • Exposing unfinished ideas to one's peers at an early stage in order to get early feedback or input.
    • Explaining one's research papers to a wider audience, beyond one's peers and fellow practitioners.
    • Finding new collaborators or being found.
    • Making feedback easy - blogs normally have comment fields whilst papers in repositories don't
    • Dissemination - being found for "niche" search terms particular to your field

Examples at York