{"id":1758,"date":"2009-10-16T20:06:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T20:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/10\/16\/id_like_to_teach_the_world_to_blog\/"},"modified":"2009-10-16T20:06:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T20:06:45","slug":"id_like_to_teach_the_world_to_blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/10\/16\/id_like_to_teach_the_world_to_blog\/","title":{"rendered":"I’d like to teach the world to blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the big autumn grant deadline cluster is finally behind me. Thank goodness for that. Now I can get to the rest of my to-do list: it’s four days until a big meeting with some international collaborators, eight days until a progress report for another grant is due, and a mere 23 days until the onerous task of lying on a Cuban beach drinking a mojito.
\nOne of the other things I’m working on is my department’s new website<\/a>. It’s very much a work in progress – we only just got permission to set up this WordPress-based site a few weeks ago (after struggling with the rigid page formats and ridiculously clunky back-end of the official website for several years), and I’ve been scrambling to create content in between all the grant application work I’ve been doing.
\nIt has been surprisingly difficult to persuade the department’s students and postdocs to provide me with text and photos for their profile pages; I anticipate much hurried page creation when they finally decide they need an online presence to facilitate their future job searches. But trying to get people to contribute to the blog<\/a>? It’s like pulling teeth.
\nI’ve circulated the Nature Methods<\/em> editorial<\/a> encouraging scientists to blog. I’ve suggested general themes and topics for posts, and loose guidelines related to blogging your own or others’ unpublished data. I’ve provided links to Nature Network and ScienceBlogs. My boss is keen and supportive. But I still don’t have a single solid response to my request for blog post ideas, although a couple of people have expressed general interest, and have contributed to other pages on the site (thanks, Darren!<\/a>). In fact, I’ve resorted to asking individuals to write posts on topics that I’ve thought of… and I still don’t have any posts to show for it.
\nI never manage to make it to any of those science blogging conferences; they’re always too far away, and thus too expensive and time consuming to get to. But I know a lot of NNers have been to one or more of these conferences, and have attended sessions on how to encourage scientists to blog. I’d really appreciate any ideas you encountered at said events, or just in general!
\np.s. yes, I know everyone’s busy. But writing a blog post takes no longer than going for a coffee or extended lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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