[Air-l] PhD blogring proposal

[Sarah Robbins]

That would be great!

On 10/18/06, Mary-Helen Ward <mhward at usyd.edu.au> wrote:
>
> At the AoIR conference in Brisbane a group (well, three is a small
> group!) of us PhD students met with the graduate student representative
> on the AoIR board, Ted Coopman. One of the things that was suggested at
> that meeting was that some kind of central place be set up with a list
> of the blogs of graduate student members of the Association - a blog
> ring, I guess, although it could be as simple as a click able listing of
> all the sites with some details about their owners and their research
> interests.
>
> I'm not sure if there's somewhere this could be done on the Association
> website, or whether one of us should just take the initiative and call
> for addresses to create this page and stick it somewhere. I'm happy to
> have a go at designing a button we could have on our sites - it could
> link to this (as yet uncreated) list if we decided not to have a
> 'proper' blogring or it could be the blogring button.
>
> The advantage to this would be that this could be a kick start to
> forming a community of common interest - many of us are already linking
> to each other and have each other on RSS feeds, but this would create a
> quick way to connect with and for new student members. Also, at the PhD
> colloquium many PhD presenters found the input from faculty to be really
> helpful, especially as we're all working in such a multi-disciplinary
> and 'out there' academic area and many have supervisors with more
> traditional research experience. Having our blogs linked would mean that
> we could bring up issues we were concerned about for discussion among a
> wider audience that has a deeper understanding of the issues of our
> research areas than many of the people we are in face-to-face contact
> with.
>
> What do people think?
>
> Mary-Helen
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