The Power of Blogging . . .

I've been thinking that it would be great if the team had some kind of web presence that allowed everyone to share ideas both inside and outside the planning team. Blogging gives us all the opportunity to share what we've found, express what we're thinking and receive feedback in a collaborative way. I'm fairly new to this sort of thing, but it appears as though there are many websites that will provide you with the tools and server space to build and host your blog (short for "weblog") completely free of charge. This blog is hosted by our friends at Google, which appears to be hosting thousands (maybe even millions) of blogs to date. The blog software is incredibly simple to use and requires only a browser like Internet Explorer, Mozilla or Firefox (my favorite) to create and edit your blog.

If anyone else on the team is interested in learning more about blogging, I can show you what I know on any Sunday morning and set you up with the user name and password for this blog, so that you can post to the blog as well. The blog can also be set up to receive messages, or "posts" which are comments that are attached by viewers of the blog who do not have access to editting the blog.

I'm currently compiling a list of competent, creative blogs that I have come across and will add them to the blog as I come across them.

Jeff