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Blogging Session Feedback

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This week I received the results of attendee evaluations from the blogging session we did back at the beginning of the month. (A copy of our slides are posted on the wiki page.) We had about 10 people on site attendees plus another 16 call-ins. The conference calls could have had multiple people on the line, so at a minimum we had 26 listening/attending.

Overall, the attendees rated the session a 4.3 out of 5.

People seemed to like the general introduction we gave as well as the case study of how we have deployed a weblog network at ASHA.

The most commonly requested change for the program was to provide more balanced coverage of external and internal uses of weblogs. In the session we spent about 10 minutes on external use in response to attendee requests. 50/50 on external/internal use would be a great program and probably be more attractive to wider audience. The main reason we didn’t have more on external use by an association is that I haven’t deployed an external blog yet for our assocation and so don’t have any direct experience to share yet.

ASAE-GWSAE Town Hall I

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View from a Corner Office has a nice recap on today’s town hall meeting about the proposed merger between GWSAE and ASAE. Worth a read if you are a member of either organization. I plan to attend the town hall meeting that is part of the ASAE Management and Technology Conference.

I’m a member of both organizations and am a bit ambivalent about the merger. My main concern is that the programs and quality of service from both organizations will go down for a quite a period of time due to the inevitable merger turbulence.

An Official NPO/NGO Weblog

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Re-Entry Blog was added to my association weblogs wiki page today. I pared down the description for that page to be a bit more brief but will post the entirety of it here:

Regularly updated blog on transition from prison issues supported by the National Institute of Corrections. Meant to share knowledge, recent events, and other re-entry isses between and among states undergoing re-entry reforms (nearly all.) Currently there are three bloggers, soon we will begin to see posts from about 20 additional re-entry experts. The blog currently recieves hits on a daily basis from most state governments, non-governmental organizations, and international governments.

Looks like this is a joint effort by a government institute and a private research firm. While NIC is not an association, I’ll leave them on the list since they offer a lot of association-like services and it provides an interesting example of how to use a weblog for NPO/NGO activities.

Klogging Event

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I’ll be presenting, along with Glen Engel-Cox, an ASAE Knowledge Network titled “Blogging for Associations” on January 8, 2004. The session will cover how associations can set up a weblog network on their intranet as a low-cost knowledge sharing tool.

To support this session and some other stuff I’m working on, I’ve set up a wiki. You can see the page for the blogging session here and the main wiki home page here. I’ve restricted pages that I want to maintain control over but most of the site is editable. Feel free to add links to the resources pages if you would like to add information for the session attendees to see.

FeedDemon Gold

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FeedDemon, an RSS newsfeed aggregation tool, has gone gold and should be available for sale next week. I’ve been using the various beta releases over the past few months and like it quite a bit. If you read lots of RSS feeds, this software gives you a lot of features for organizing and managing your subscriptions.