Thread:Categorisation and tagging, blogging netiquette, and avoiding pitfalls (1)

HI Wayne, Below some feedback re the blog support resource.

It’s great – only thing I would be interested to see in it is a little more info on the importance of categorisation or tagging. Noting that categories are the broad themes covered in your blog, and that by applying these to posts creates navigation elements to help users filter and find info pertaining to their interests. This could be incorporated into the Anatomy of a blog section (both the graphic, and related text) and perhaps one of the dot points in the activity could be to consider if the blog you are looking at uses categorisation or tagging and how that impacts navigation.

Another way might be to have an ‘if you’re interested’ type of extension activity (like where you give links to info on wordpress vs blogger features) linking through to a couple of mature blogs that use categorisation and/or tagging well and noting how it becomes more important over time to help navigate the mass of information available. I guess categorisation and tagging may be less of an issue if the blog is only to be used for a couple of months.

Apart from that, it might be good to note some of the pitfalls or no-nos re netiquette for online communications. No cyber-bullying, posting photos that are not yours to publish, citing other people’s works properly if you embed material, sensitivity in commenting, not defaming people ie reminding them it is a public media channel where the content persists on the web (courtesy of search engine’s archiving efforts) possibly even after you remove offending content.

My colleague Dr Ted Mitew, here in Arts, has written a blog that outlines some of these issues very well. http://blogs.uow.edu.au/becomingdigital/

Maybe you could point to it?

Regards, Sarah

Sarah Lambert B.A. Comm, MBA, MAIPM (Australian Institute of Project Management) Manager Blogging@UoW http://blogs.uow.edu.au