Blawg Review Greets New Year With Blogging Resolutions From One of the Best
Fellow St. Louisan Evan Schaeffer hosts the first Blawg Review of the year, with a post that uses legal blogs (blawgs) to illustrate a fine set of 10 tips (”resolutions”) for better blogging.
Not limited in relevance to blogging lawyers, Evan’s resolutions are based on his recent talk at BlawgThink 2005 in Chicago, entitled “Writing Weblog Posts to Engage Readers and Build an Audience: The Secrets of Legal Underground, Revealed.”
I attended Blawgthink 2005, and found Evan’s presentation very well-done and useful. This Blawg Review version, however, shows how an experienced blogger can use the capabilities of the medium (and the Internet generally) to create a superior interactive learning experience.
Can a mere blog post really be superior to an oral presentation including a super-duper Powerpoint, George?
Certainly for my wandering mind, which a good presentation may stimulate to think further about a particular point instead of listening to subsequent points.
Read Evan’s post. By using numerous hyperlinks to top legal blogs to illustrate his points, he allows the reader to absorb the material at his/her own speed, zeroing in on key points of interest, and following up on selected illustrations — or all of them.
This is a fine example of something I’ve been contemplating much recently — that the blog is just a tool, or blank canvas, with almost infinite uses, limited only by creativity.
Here Evan uses his blog to take content that could equally well be stretched into a 100-page book — if the hyperlinked content were included — and compress it into the equivalent of about 5 pages of text .
Which way would you prefer to read it?
Thanks, Evan, for sharing so much information, and for yet another creative edition of Blawg Review.
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