Monday 15 December 2008

Evaluation of Group Blog

In our group blog, we aimed to analyise foreign news coverage, and divided the work load equally with every individual choosing one continent to cover.

A problem that arose was realizing the fact that we did not use a blog website like Blogger or Word press, which enables us to edit posts at all times.

Instead we used a website whereby only the editor can publish posts, and we have to send an email every time we want to update or post a story. The layout of the website was a little all over the place; however nobody was expecting a top of the range website.

The problem when using a website is that the front page stays the same, whereas with Blogger, every new post goes on the front page, until a new one comes along.

The websites URL stayed the same when accessing different parts of the site, which prevented some of us from not leaving comments on other blogs as it would lead back to the main website not the specific part

Overall, I am pleased with the outcome of our group blog, especially the content which is of good quality, and the topic that was international news. Personally I experienced a delay in posting on one of the five days for a good reason obviously, and apart from that everything went well. I enjoyed writing for the group blog, however I enjoy writing for my individual blog more as there are less restrictions.

It was a good experience to be posting five days, as a group, and it would be interesting to see how it succeeds into the real world, once changed are made to it.

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