The Spirit of Blogging
Alright, now that we have “completed” our blog assignments, what’s next? One of the interesting aspects about this blog project that we have done is that, apart from helping us understand that it is possible to build a distributed collaborative community, we were also able to realize that blogging is a tool that we can use to express our views about issues that are not mandatory to talk about. All of us researched about Web 2.0, European Renaissance and Human Communication and we blogged about these topics mostly because we had to. But there were certain topics that were blogged which we didn’t do out of compulsion.
We learnt that this is one the most effective tools that we can use to express views about topics that we feel are interesting and that we feel have information that we can share. There were things that none of us knew which we were able to learn from just reading the posts. Like the one from Kristina Coburn where she told us about how dating is done in Mexico, the one from Rajeev Karki which told us how he was able to understand human communication from his 10 month old child and the one from Anisha Chandrasekharan which enlightened us about the beauty of a serene place called Auroville in India.
The point that I am trying to make here is that even though we were busy battling time with our assignments and things, we had bloggers who were able to see this tool as not just a 200 point assignment. Blogging is not easy, I accept. But I believe that even the most difficult of subjects can be made easy and interesting if we develop an interest for that subject and an easy subject can be made difficult if we consider it “boring”. I feel that we should be able to see this tool as not just an assignment. We must see beyond this. I am sure that we will soon be able to find this tool as means of communicating with each other in not only a professional but also in a friendly manner. One other thing that CICS world offers is that we will still be able to blog even after we graduate out of CICS. We will still be able to collaborate with each other even if one is placed in L.A. and the other is placed in India. It helps in creating relationships that are professional in nature. Of course, there are other ways of maintaining relationships. But now that we are exposed to a tool that we are familiar with, I suggest that we make use of this opportunity.
I am not making conclusions here. I really did not have to blog this. I am just expressing my sincere thoughts about a tool that I find to be beyond what many of us perceive it to be. The spirit of blogging that has been kept alive for these few months (thanks to all of us) should not fade away as we finish the course or even after we graduate. It will be interesting to find out who blogs after now and I am sure that there will be more creativity in the blogs that are posted on issues that are not given to us, but are chosen by ourselves.
I cannot determine the future but I perceive that I will continue to blog when I find time and more importantly when I hit on something that I want to share.
So, let’s blog away.
Comments
VJ
great post
with many good observations and conclusions
good to mention the names of the interesting bloggers
JEG
Posted by: JEG | December 12, 2007 07:27 AM