Weblog Initiative at the University of British Columbia
March 30th, 2005Yet another university working on a weblog program. Weblogs@UBC has a ton of useful information, including this statement:
“Our aim with weblogs@UBC is not to get everyone to start blogging – blogs are not for everyone. However, we do think they have tremendous potential in higher education, not only from technical and managerial perspectives, but also because they are such a natural fit for many users.”
“Anyone interested in publishing their work may do so freely, quickly, and easily. Our hope is that by encouraging participants to speak their minds and share material, we will all build a community that fosters openness, trust, collaboration and most of all, learning for the sake of learning.”
I have to keep reminding myself that not everyone is a blogger (you can lead librarians to a blog, but you can’t make them post) and we can’t assume that just because the technology exists that they should be using it in their library. It’s one thing to get excited about technologies, it’s another thing to implement it correctly and effectively.
