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November 15, 2004
What's the point of this blog?
Sebastien Paquet provides a great overview of blogging and develops the concept of personal knowledge publishing here:
In this document, I analyze an emerging form of knowledge sharing that I call personal knowledge publishing. Personal knowledge publishing has its roots in a practice known as "weblogging" that has been rapidly spreading on the World Wide Web over the last three years. It is a new form of communication that many expect will change the way people work and collaborate, especially in areas where knowledge and innovation play an important role.
This is the direction Kerry and I are going. We see our joint blog as a way to expand our community. The two of us have spent hours together over the past year, discovering our common interests and exploring our differences. We have found that we learn well together, and that happens to be an activity we both love. This blog is a challenge to us to expand our learning opportunities – we believe we can both expand our knowledge and fine-tune our thinking by seeking a broader audience. We need more people who think like us – and those who don’t – to really test our individual beliefs and to continue our personal development.
I heard Meg Wheatley speak at The Learning Consortium’s annual conference in Durham a few weeks ago, and she highlighted these key points regarding “What creates healthy communities?”
- It knows itself as a community – people are there for each other
- It focuses on what’s possible and vision, and who cares about seeing it the same way
- It talks to itself, and keeps expanding the conversation; relys on diversity; and comes together with dialogue
- It expects leadership everywhere – leadership doesn’t come from the individual but from the community. Really good communities create good leaders – they give birth to the leaders!
I believe Kerry and I have developed a great community together and this blog is a way for us to expand it.
Personally, working via this blog will help me learn about writing while writing about learning. I want to create a readibly accessible journal of my learning and development – and I don’t mind doing that publicly. The key reason for being public is to develop interaction with others. I’m seeking an expanded learning community – and hope that the healthy community that Kerry and I have together will be of use to others. Kerry and I have gained a great deal from being able to explore topics deeply and from many angles. Forming real bonds of trust in order share of oneself is the tricky bit to achieve – and I want to explore how this can be achieved through this medium.
Posted by Mary at November 15, 2004 08:04 AM