2021 PROMO: Plan for organizing a blog in a digital "world". One person, publishing once a month, will get no following in years. But a collaborative blog...

Plan for organizing a blog in a digital "world". 
One person, publishing once a month, 
will get no following in years.  

But a collaborative blog...

Suggestions as to how and why a community or professionally-oriented class might want to develop a collaborative blog that reports on what they are doing.

• Twenty people, publishing once a month on related topics, can build a following.
• That is the potential of a collaborative blog/

Where would you get 20 people?

• In a community.  People in a community share common interests.
• In a professionally-oriented class. They all share professional interests. 

Why blog?

• The whys and hows of blogging.
• Publicize something.
• Build a portfolio.
• Build a reputation.
• Show off project results.
• Let students build portfolios.
• Promote events.
• Promote the interests of your group
• Blog to tell, publicize, or promote. Summary

• Update 11/19/2020 Covid feel good. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Educators' online calendar and OPLN. 

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Who?

• Students:  Education builds skills. Skills are assets. Assets are marketable if you can show them. Your portfolio shows your skills.
• Educators:   The entrepreneurial educator: Build a portfolio, Promote your work
• Librarians:  Libraries in the virtual world could provide help for virtual classes and virtual campuses: the trident model
• Writers:  Writing: Create a collaborative blog to market your writing
• Collaborative fiction blogging. Writing does not have to be lonely
• Groups:  Promote the interests of your group
• Marketers: Whatever is worth marketing is worth blogging about. 

How?

• Blogging in virtual worlds. How to... Summary
• Blogging for beginners, the virtual world advantage. And a demo of blogging for instruction.
• A community in a digital world starts with two advantages
• Scenes relevant to the subject.
• People interested in talking about the subject.
• You can capture these in images or video.
• Why Only 20% of Readers are Clicking Through on Your Article Title

Libraries

• Libraries in the virtual world could provide help for virtual classes and virtual campuses: the trident model
• A digital campus needs a digital library. What would be in a digital library?
• Community Virtual Library (CVL) opens in Kitely. A view of the space station and its teleporters
• Metaverse Libraries: Communities as Resources Part 2

Create content

• Invited articles and press releases

Build readership

• A curated blog, what, why, and how. View counts for my top curating pages.
• Build traffic to your blog about virtual worlds
• A dozen+ tips for building your blog about virtual worlds
• Build an effective community blog for 3D virtual worlds
• Give your blog article a search description, teaser, or other short promotion
• Web-worlds for promotion: Come to my web-world, promote your project
• Bloggers: Make your articles search friendly
• 9 Ways to Grow Your Blog Faster

Promote the posts 

• Wherever there is interest in the subject.
• One or two Facebook groups
• Twitter. 
• LinkedIn if the subject would  interest some professionals 

Collaborative blogs

• 5 Types of Blogger Collaboration & How to Get Started
• Implementing a Collaborative Blog – 7 Ways to Deliver Better Stories
• 42 Points To Organize Your Group Or Corporate Blog
• Mastery collaborative blog
• 20+ collaborative blogs
• National Blogging Collaborative
• Collaborative blog (search)
• Creating a collaborative blog  (search)

Educator blogs

• 52 Education Blogs You Should Follow
• Blogs on education (search)

Portfolio

• Asset-oriented learning. Goal-directed learning. Build your professional portfolio Reputation as an asset.
• Triumph trails: The hero's journey. Team-based learning. Students laughing! Portfolio building!
• Sex on Fire The Belles 6/9/2020 How is this educational? Who might use something like this in their portfolio?
• Students Virtual Showcase---poster session or presentation for the new century
• Education is certification too: Micro-credentials
• Breadwinner thinking. Project-based learning. Growth-oriented learning. Goal-directed learning. The future of work is online.

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• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
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