Conference Blog: Yes or No?
This blog began a little over a year ago, during Annual Conference 2008.
I started it, well, because I wanted to reach out to ya’ll, as I was the first new communicator in nearly 30 years. That’s a long time. Another one of my goals for the blog was to show the power of new media to tell story. We got to know each other in this space throughout last summer and into Commission Possible last September.
Using that criteria as a judge, the blog has been a big success. But, it’s gotten more difficult to keep writing creatively about what’s happening out there, mostly because we’ve been busy launching an e-news (which now has over 1200 subscribers), working on a website, assisting Bishop Lyght in launching his blog, and many other things.
Twitter and Facebook are also covering ground previously been handled by the blog. In effect, the blog was our first effort in revamping the electronic media efforts of the Conference, now those efforts have expanded.
Perhaps now, it has served it’s purpose, and it’s time to move on. One thing is certain in the new media landscape: change. You have to be willing to recognize what worked last year might not be now.
And finally, a blog is a personal thing. It’s really about an individual sharing story…and well, the Conference is your story. It’s a shared story, and I’d like other voices to be heard in the telling of it.
So I guess I have two questions:
Do ya’ll think a blog for the Conference is something to be maintained? If you answer ‘yes’, my next question is:
Will you help write the story?
Those of you who have come to this space to look for music posts (there’s been a surprising number of hits on the music writing here) should go to my blog, SpinBeat.
