Group blogging is another good way to develop your professional and academic profile.\u00a0 Many schools, colleges, departments and research units run their own domain specific group blogs, which enable multiple authors to publish blog posts on related topics. Some group blogs are unmoderated, and allow members to post any content they choose at any time, however most group blogs are moderated and have a dedicated editor who manages and oversees the content that is posted to the blog.\u00a0 A good example of an edited group blog from the University of Edinburgh is Teaching Matters<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0Group blogs are a great way to encourage colleagues to try their hand at blogging and to get used to the practice of writing for the web.<\/p>\n If you are setting up a group blog it’s a good idea to have clear editorial guidelines that set out what topics the blog covers, how long blog posts should be, writing style, posting schedule and other relevant information.\u00a0 Here are some examples of style and content guides:<\/p>\n Examples of moderated group blogs:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n An alternative way to manage a group blog is to syndicate content from other blogs.\u00a0 Syndication involves pulling content in from other blogs to create an aggregated series of posts.\u00a0 We’ll be covering syndication briefly later on. The Open.Ed blog<\/a> is an example of a syndicated blog, all the posts that appear here were originally posted on other blogs. By tagging these posts #OpenEdFeed they are automatically pulled into the Open.Ed blog.\u00a0 There’s no moderation or editorial involved.<\/p>\n Examples of syndicated blogs:<\/strong><\/p>\n Some group blogs will adopt a combination of both approaches; an editor oversees the blog as a whole and manages what content appears, some posts are written by members of the group, and some posts are syndicated from elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Moderated group blogs Syndicated group blogs Group blogging is another good way to develop your professional and academic profile.\u00a0 Many schools, colleges, departments and research units run their own domain specific group blogs, which enable multiple authors to publish blog posts on related topics. Moderated group blogs Some group blogs are unmoderated, and allow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/professional-blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/professional-blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/professional-blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/professional-blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/professional-blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/professional-blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/professional-blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/professional-blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/professional-blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/professional-blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/professional-blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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