The intent of the blog is to create a more dynamic dialogue about class topics, research proposals, posts, and comments to them. Students will soon create their own blogs.
Hospitals, businesses, newspapers, digital magazines, and most websites use all use blogging technology. Getting feedback from readers in a sustained conversation without limiting the amount of text, with nested replies, likes and dislikes, and links, is one of the basic ways we read online.
Healthcare Organizations Have Blogs: The widespread use of blogging technology alone is reason enough to consider the implications for connecting with others in the healthcare field, including clinicians, patients, journalists and investigators, and many other members of the healthcare community.
Read Fresh and Thought-Provoking Material: The advantage to reading blogs is that you don't have to limit your reading to current news and blog entries that everyone else is reading. Attempt to find unexpected inspiration and new ways of viewing topics from alternative sources.
Blogs Don’t Need to be Balanced: Blogs are useful in conveying an opinion. Reader comments can provide alternative points of view and perhaps build a case for the opposing set of arguments. This is a good way to create a discussion online. If an entry is meant to influence readers, provide them with the best arguments for your opinion. This will convey passion. Balance does not mean provocative, but in its best form solicits new ideas.
QUESTIONS: What is the difference between Facebook, Twitter, other social media, where you can reply or comment, and a blog? Do you read blogs? If so, which ones?
I don't generally read blogs, but I do when I want to understand people's opinion on a matter or when there is no solution to a question but you can reach it by multiple individuals expressing components of the solution.
ReplyDeleteThis I would say is a key difference between a blog and other forms of social media. A blog allows you to have a conversation and it builds on what has been said previously. Whereas when you reply or comment on other social media platforms, you are limiting your opinion to the original articles/question. Everyone expresses their opinion without having continuity with what has been said.
To add to this, there is no right or wrong in a blog, the blog comments continuously evolves unlike other platforms where the comments have a defined frame and dialogues are limited.
Love to see others opinions and see where this conversation leads :)
As long as we all post and comment often (and I'll do my best to inform you on D2L if there is a new post), then I agree. Thanks for your comment.
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