me.edu.au will soon include a blog as significant new tool. This will coincide with me.edu.au moving out of beta version. me.edu.au is a professional networking service and provides a simple and easy to use service to connect people of similar interests. The blog will allow users to go into more detail about their view and interests and include the full range of blog features including images and videos.
Why use the me.edu.au blog?
Members of me.edu.au who already have a blog may ask: why start a new blog here? One answer is that there is an option to link one’s me.edu.au blog to an external blog. Another is that there are some impressive functions that come from working within a blog + environment like me.edu.au. Chief among these is the search capacity. A search in me.edu.au for ‘internet, safety’, for example, brings up a comprehensive search result for the whole site. So this reveals blog posts, Communities, personal profiles and whiteboard entries that include these two words. This means that a user interested in a topic can very quickly find all relevant links to topics of interest. This is a very powerful way of connecting people with similar interests.
me.edu.au is aimed at a large number of educators who currently do not have a blog. Being able to establish a simple blog in an environment like this will be attractive to first-time bloggers because me.edu.au is built for people to connect with each other. Blogging is often a lonely business, and takes considerable confidence to engage with. The me.edu.au environment with its connected communities and personal profiles may well be a comfortable place to get started as a blogger.
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