Social Science and Social Networking: Participatory Culture and Blogging Professionally
by Another great blog to add to your blogroll is Tiara.org. There, Alice Marwick covers social technologies from a feminist perspective. Awesome stuff. She frequently posts excellent reading guides and recently posted about phenomenon of participatory culture by bands. I experienced some nice synergy when I ran across another post on participatory culture by danah boyd. Why haven't I been reading her before this?
I'm always on the lookout for people writing about blogging professionally. Recently, I've lucked out and found some great posts. Professor Piderit writes about a conference on how to raise your online professional profile.
Similarly, Belle Lettre offers her thoughts on blogging as networking in On Mentors and Mentoring.
It is curious that I can speak so candidly to virtual strangers, whereas I have not told anyone (well, except one) at my old law school about this blog. Perhaps it is because we have a prior relationship of professor-student and mentor-mentee that I have already abused too much. I know this professor cares enough about my career to give me a few reading tips and a (very valuable) letter of recommendation--but it's not quite the level of intimacy (which I ironically have with virtual strangers) I have with these avuncular, rather protective of their blawgee protege professors at other schools.
Of course, we all know that not everbody understands or approves of professionals or academics blogging. Still, it really hits home to read about conversations like the following. Pilgrim/heretic let a friend guest post about a recent "rather chilling conversation" with a collegue.
For some reason, I was not prepared for: "You might want to consider how wise this is and whether it presents you in the best professional light." Or, "It might make people doubt whether you're happy here or whether you're committed to this job." Why wasn't I prepared for this? Maybe I thought that I was such a paragon of blogging that no one could possibly object to the professionalism of anything I'd written. (Ha.) Maybe I thought that people like Ivan Tribble only existed in the pages of the Chronicle.
Kaijsa Calkins blogs about life and librarianship at Jag saker job.
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Delayed again
It seems by brain's been on vacation and I keep forgetting to do the right things to make my posts appear in a timely fashion. I apologize for the delay on this one--I wrote it and never actually published it!
*blinks*
Ha! For a moment I thought my blog got featured, because my name's Tiara and I have a blog on this blogroll. :P
ah, the delicate balance
I started my professional (ca-design) blog as a tool for my Local Chapter (trade organization) to keep up with tips since I didn't feel I had time to keep up with my monthly newsletter. I give tips not only about the software's general uses, but, also about my industry/discipline (facilities management). This sometimes leads me to critiquing certain things... lack of communication, adherence to standards, old boys club, software shortcomings, etc. I don't state the name of my company on that blog. Not doing that detracts from my authority some, but, they've got a good reputation and I'm speaking for me, not them.
I've been blogging well over a year. About a month ago, my company released standards on personal blogging. 1. you can't do it from your work computer. 2. you cannot say you're affiliated with the hospital. 3. you cannot talk about any patients or research going on here.
Every employee had to sign an form saying they had heard the rules. So, I stopped blogging on my lunch hour. I never said I was (prudence and all). Aaand, of course, I don't talk about patients as I don't come in contact with them.
I do worry that employees from some of the companies that I work with might take offense to something I've said, even if I've carefully *not* directed a comment at them... The construction industry is pretty tight around here, and my boss is involved. He knows I blog and has never spoken to me about it in a negative manner, but, politics being what it is...
I do try not to worry too much, as I, amazingly enough, receive more 'Thank-yous' than I do 'You're an idiot's. lol.
Melanie Perry
***not all who wander are lost***
http://mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com