How Jeff Tweedy Of Wilco Is Helping Me Help You.

 

Prior to Jeff Tweedy acoustic shows (I’m a big Wilco fan), fans have the opportunity to request songs via the Wilco website. I have a great bootleg where Tweedy calls out the names of those in the crowd who have entered their favorite tunes and starts talking with them about their picks.

“Is Jenny here? I’ve got bad news for you, Jenny, I’m not going to play that one, but I will play another,” he says.

Photo courtesy of Dena Flows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/denaflows/5164298659/

Not such great news for Jenny at first, but eventually she gets to hear something that she wants.

So, what does Jeff Tweedy have to do with edSocialMedia?

On May 24 friends of mine and I are going to present an edSocialWedia webinar – How To Successfully Manage a Student & Faculty Blog.

To make this thing as effective and value added for you as possible, I’m asking for your help, nay, your pre-webinar participation!

If you plan to join us on May 24 at 1pm EST, (and you should) tell me – what are you most interested in learning about when it comes to student and faculty blogging at your school? What are your questions? What would you like to hear from my colleagues, the intrepid Gould Academy Gloggers?

Help us help you.

Why should I wait until the end of the presentation to ask for questions, right? Let’s front load this baby.

That said, I’ll have a few things that I’ll want to touch on, but I have to believe my slide deck can only be better if I am talking about what it is that you want to learn about.

So tell me your thoughts in the comments below.

I’m no Jeff Tweedy, but I might even give you a shout out.

About the Author

Tucker Kimball

Tucker is the Director of Communications at Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine. He's a husband, father, fly-fisherman, movie and music lover.

  • Peter Baron

    Love this, Tucker. Awesome idea!nnI’d like to hear how the Gloggers manage their commitment to the blog while balancing everything that comes with being a student or faculty member. I imagine it can’t be easy.

  • http://twitter.com/tuckerkimball Tucker Kimball

    Great suggestion, Peter. We’ll definitely talk about this. Thanks!

  • http://www.williamstites.net William Stites

    u00a0Do you assign topics for people to cover or is it free choice? How do you managing the editing process, but also keep to the timeliness of content?

  • http://twitter.com/tuckerkimball Tucker Kimball

    We’ll be sure to cover these as well. Thanks for the questions, Bill.u00a0

  • http://twitter.com/DaniellaNordin Daniella Nordin

    u00a0Why blog when you can tweet? I get this question all the time and am not sure how to answer it.u00a0

  • http://rethinkschoolcomm.wordpress.com Cassie Dull

    Since you have both faculty and student bloggers, are the audiences different? Who reads the faculty blogs and who reads the student blogs?u00a0Also curious, do you have a plan in place to keep fresh content coming over the dormant summer months?

  • http://twitter.com/tuckerkimball Tucker Kimball

    I’ll touch on this, Daniella, in the form of the value blogs can bring to an institution. My short answer here would be that twitter is a great mechanism to share the content that’s in a blog, however, it’s simply not built to provide the story and content that a blog can. Twitter is the tease that helps get an audience to a blog. Thanks for posting!

  • http://twitter.com/tuckerkimball Tucker Kimball

    Thanks, Cassie. I’ll touch on these areas as well. I don’t have a plan in place for the summer. We’ve always shut it down in the summer and then relaunched in the fall. I know this gets away from the idea of a sustainable, content fresh blog but it’s been the practice thus far. We’ve got another school blog (life.gouldacademy.org) that the communications office will keep current throughout the summer. Thanks for posting!

  • http://twitter.com/tuckerkimball Tucker Kimball

    Thanks to all who logged in today for the webinar.u00a0 I hope it had some value for you. I did my best to shout you out!

  • http://twitter.com/tuckerkimball Tucker Kimball

    If you didn’t make it to the webinar, I’ve posted the slidedeck to slideshare. Thanks.nhttp://www.slideshare.net/thkimball/how-to-manage-a-student-faculty-blog

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