At the last blog workshop we held, with members of the arts community, we found there were various levels of blog awareness and engagement. Some had blogs of their own, a few had helped start blogs for others, and some were only now becoming aware of blogging as a marketing tool for arts organizations. In our individual half-hour follow-up sessions with participants, we’ve found that many who had started one posting at the workshop haven’t yet taken the next steps to keep blogging.
Busy Carola Goetze of the JEM Gallery here in Vancouver has been playing with her blog, and her upcoming Gallery shows and events give her a nudge toward frequent posting. Go here to check it out so far, and while you’re there, sign in to her guest book, just to give her more encouragement.
We are looking for great things from Heather Bray from the Dance Centre, and Mirae Rosner at Neworld Theatre, and can’t wait to see what the Arts Council of Surrey comes up with when they get down to adding a blog component to their site.
Kim Lear, who had already started the blog, Write to Speak, for her communications services, is definitely ready for the next step into the linklove that Isabella touched upon during the workshop.
I won’t mention all the workshop particpants and their projects in this posting, but hope to see some of them at the upcoming Blogger Meetup next week. One of the aspects of our workshops is a welcome into the community of bloggers, and we do try to offer as may connections as possible to help the new blog get started.
We could call it “jumpstarting your blog” – helping an individual or an organization begin. But unlike the auto association tow-truck that comes, gives you a jumpstart and leaves you, we make sure you actually get on the road and start driving. Plus we’re an email or phone call away if you run into any further problems.
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