A couple of months ago, I was introduced to Dave Nicholls, Chair of the Critical Physiotherapy Network. The Critical Physiotherapy Network is an organisation which has a lot of synergies with ISCHP, and Dave and I met to discuss how our respective organisations managed membership and communication issues. In the course of our conversation, he commented about blog posts, how they are easy and quick to write, why people should do this more often, and why most people don’t. I took him up on this and asked him to write a post about it for our blog, which he promptly did. Thank you Dave, some very good advice for our members. If this inspires you to write for our blog (and it is meant to), then please write something and send it off to one of our blog editors or commissioning editors – their addresses can be found under the Blog Team menu). Thanks, Kerry Chamberlain.
Please answer all questions on this paper.
Question 1.
A blog is:
- A personal web page on which an individual records opinions, links to other sites, etc. on a regular basis
- A badly written piece of banal drivel, written by someone craving the affirmation of others
- A revolutionary mode of postmodern peeragogy, democratizing the sharing and distribution of ideas and opinions
- All of the above, and more
It would be nice to think that the correct answer is 1 and 3, but you can’t really avoid badly written blogs if you allow for such a free and easy mode of personal expression. To me, the fact that some blogs are poorly written doesn’t matter. All that really matters is that ideas and opinions are being shared.
