Blog-It

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his is already being done to some degree by eSchoolNews, where specific bloggers are assigned to specific sessions -- mostly spotlights, I suppose. But what if there was a way to ask for volunteers to write blog entries about each presentation. It could be a part of the session description -- [Clear Here to Blog this Session]. You would be sent, via e-mail, the tags to be used in the blog (NECC07, blogit, ses37) and instructions. We wouldn't really be looking for a review of the session as much as notes on the highlights and some personal insights.

In the conference web site, each session would have an aggregator that would list all entries tagged with NECC07 & ses37. This could also apply to the session presenter, so that they could send some blog entries in as well. We would also encourage session presenters to include a presentation slide with the tags for that session, so that all blog entries from the audience would be included in the aggregation. We would need to include pretty clear instructions on how to tag blogs. This could be part of the conference program.

Anita McAnear I have forwarded this idea to the key players to think about implementing. We may be back with more questions.