It’s amazing to me how behind community businesses, community newspapers, and other institutions are on blogging and social media. Actually, it’s quite disappointing because these are the same people who are helping others in various areas of their lives, yet they are not doing anything to improve their digital knowledge.
During the month of September, I’ll be giving tips on how blogging can help community organizations, community newspapers and other institutions. I will share the benefits of blogging as well as some of the ways people make money from blogs
Are you a community organization already blogging? What has been your experience?
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Shorty, great subject. I can tell you from personal experience of writing an impartial community blog that community groups do not like social media. They look at people like you and I as threats to their organizations. Many of the individuals in these organizations have developed egos that are out of control. These individuals become default leaders in the 2G world(fax machines, etc) because they were sent information to disseminate to their communities and took this responsibility and ran a muck with it and made themselves HNIC’s and expected everyone else to fall in line. In the 3G/4G world of constant contact, Facebook, Twitter, etc these individuals and organizations have become irrelevant because they fail to respond to the needs of their constituents who now go directly to resource providers for information. Blogs such as yours and mine that disseminate this information are seen as threats to these organizations who are attempting to find their way in the social media world
Worlee Glover
Concerned Citizens of Chatham Blog
Worlee, thank you for sharing your thoughts on this situation. They can only see us as threats because of THEIR lack of knowledge. If they would take the time to really understand how these tools can benefits them, they could really positions themselves as HNICs. As it stands, they would be forever behind in technology and wondering what happened when everyone else bypasses them.