LearnShifting

I use a blog tool created by Ray Camden. I love it and use an online editor to create my blog posts. One small annoyance is that I have to upload graphics into my blog and then point to them from the article so that it appears embedded... like this picture of a storm taken from my office window.

It would be better if I, and other folks building school websites using SharePoint 2010 could use Microsoft Word 2010 to creating an article, copying and pasting pictures into the word document as they saw fit and then with a button click or two have the whole article, complete with pictures transported up to the website with the layout they had created in the word document.

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My dilemma with communicating to folks is not that I don't like communicating - actually the opposite is true.

But I do like efficiency and relevance. When our son was born in 2001 I would add news articles to our website with simple categories. I discovered blogs in 2005 and thought that they were a better way to capture chronological and category based media pieces.

Blogging came with easy ways to tag entries and easy ways for people to follow the topics they were interested in by using RSSfeeds and Google loves blogs from a search point of view as they are filled with changing content, that is indexed (tagged) and appears chronologically by groups or sub groups. The move to blogs for me occurred in 2006 and as recently as mid 2010 I was still questioning the validity of twitter as a tool I could use.

I have three blogs because family, work and aviation are three major parts of my life where sharing information is something I want to do. Because they have very different audiences and subscribers to a flying club blog didn't want to receive emails about my son's last basketball game, I have kept these three separate.