Blogging
For this mission Roman, Vince and I came together to research blogging and it's impact on digital culture. Initially found this exciting as I enjoyed writing, and blogging was an entire new and untouched territory for me.
On the day we formed our groups, we scrolled through the suggested tasks and decided to settle with the following:
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We believed blogging had unlimited potential in terms of the freedom and flexibility in choosing a topic as well as developing a writer's voice.
Each of us chose different platforms so that in the end we can:
critique each other's blogs, compare the advantages and disadvantages of each, and possibly select a successful blog out of the three in terms of it's spread.
To keep track of the spread, we could either set up Google Analytics or use an existing analytics integrates in the platform of our choice. Afterwards, if there was the need for it, we could also compare which platform had the most in depth analytics that was most useful to the author.
The three of use wanted to make sure that the content we'd post is different and unique enough including the manner in which we'd present it - either formal or informal. This would give us a general idea of what kind of content people would be attracted to the most. It would also give us an insight as to which platform is the most successful in allowing a rookie to climb the ladder in the blogosphere.
Vince wanted to do a blog about anime using Tumblr. Roman chose to stick with Blogger and talk about his personal holiday experience in Barcelona. I decided to work with Wordpress presenting a series of sketches and doodles I've made and describe the process.
All three blogs are in it's subject matter. Although all our blogs are quite informal, there's enough of a diversity between them to see what kind of content people tend to read the most.
Another tool that I would personally need to use is a Canon Sx430 IS camera I have at home in order to take pictures of my drawings. It's nothing fancy compared to the DLSRs we use in college but it should do the trick. I will also need to think about the lighting where to est present the sketches in. So this is where those photography lab sessions start to hopefully pay off!
In addition, I will use a free online photo editor - LunaPic to add a watermark to my pictures for extra measure.
Of course, our group made sure to take in consideration the goals set out for the blogging mission. We agreed to carry out our own research on the history of blogging and it's progression into the present day. This would help use gather a big picture understanding of the topic to which we can afterwards condense and combine what we gathered using Google Slides. We were actually introduced to Google Slides by Vince. I think it's a very useful tool as it allows each of us to add and edit slides simultaneously, anywhere. This would be a tool I would definitley use in future group work.
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