Blog design
1) Design and manage
A blog with a clear heading provides at a quick glance what the blog is about and its purpose. The main content area that display the posts should be easy to read and should be created with easy to read sub headings and paragraphs. It is also better to keep the page scroll amount to a minimal. Archive feature provided by the blog software should be utilised as this would help readers find content organized by the date or month. Another feature of blogs is the labels or categories and each post created under the relevant label/category would help the readers locate your posts easily. Making use of the comments facility is another ideal way to keep the readers engaged with your blog and helps promote a two way interaction between your self and the readers. I would definitely be using the above features in my blog design.
2) Supportive tools provided by blogger that I have used
A blog title is provided which can be used to give a clear indication of the purpose of the blog.
Ability to engage the community by including a comments feature. I have added a list of blogs that I like to follow during the subject and the blogger software automatically notify me when the latest update has been done to each of those blogs.
Ability to set up a comprehensive profile of the author is provided. However due to concerns of privacy many may choose not to share the profile or define basic details only.
If you choose you can also set up a blog page which will give an introduction about your self.
Articles can be organized into categories or labels. This can be done as the work progress allowing for flexibility and growth.
Hosting good conversations: House Rules!
a) Three ways of providing more control to users
The software or technology should be easy to use and learn.
It should suit the purpose of the community for example if the community is about sharing pictures it should provide facilities that help to share pictures.
There should be ways to perform special functions such as moderation and leadership.
b) The art of hosting good conversations three rules or tips that I find interesting are,
Make newcomers feel welcomed, contributors valued, recreational hasslers ignored.
All hosts are members of a community of hosts. You can't host communities without communities of hosts.
A place where everybody builds social capital individually by improving each other's knowledge capital collaboratively
c) Why rules of engagement are required in collaborative social software systems
Collaborative social software is intended to provide interaction among different users.The users will be from different age groups,different back grounds & and mostly from very different parts of the world.
Due to the nature of software, it provides functionality that can be easily done which is not the same in the real world such as spamming or filling the screen with unwanted text, teleporting a person or their objects without their persmission as described in the ISPG policy. Therefore if rules of engagement is not defined the experience of using collaborative social software would not be pleasent for everyone.
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