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blogs, attention, and working in public 2

Earlier this week, I wrote in blogs, attention, and working in public about how we can drive visability to the issues, causes and actions we care about when we work on those issues in public, and link to others do the same. That post was linked to from Gift Hub: Blogging for Social Cohesion. I’m linking back to that post ot illustrate the point. We’re having a conversation on two (so far) blogs. Very cool!

I also mentioned in that post that I was to set up a blog for my friend Sharon. In the spirit of working on public, here’s the rought draft. So far all we have there is a note from me to Sharon asking her to register. We don’t have a title yet, or any content, but why not allow others to follow along as we get set up?

The other task I set for myself in that post earlier this week was to write a white paper on this whole concept of blogging to create an audience (thanks for the phrasing, Phil!). If this were a wiki, I could write a draft and you could edit it right along with me. We’d only have one working copy at a time. Doing this in a blog will be a bit different. I’ll write a draft and you can comment (or not). Then I’ll write another draft and publish that. It can still always be a work in progress, but the older versions will be a bit more visible here. So I’ll start that work in the next post.