I know this is a late post, but here it is. Should learning professionals blog? My answer is yes. I am exploring the involvement of WLP professionals in corporate blogs as my dissertation topic. Because blogging is a grass-roots type of practice, WLP professionals may not recognize the need to blog. However, the reasons I have found for blogging in my literature review are:
- To encourage and support collaboration in the workplace.
- To encourage a practice that documents the knowledge that occurs in the white spaces of organizations (dare I say double-loop learning, too!)
- To model how blogging should be done.
- To become an early adopter of the practice and technology.
- To be able to participate in “best practices” conversations that are currently dominated by the communications and technology fields
- To gain confidence in social media, which is how Gen- Net expects to be trained.
- To be able to conduct performance analysis and evaluations using the same delivery channels as training.
- To recognize the role of WLP professionals as supporters and enablers of collaboration
- To be able to answer the call, when it comes, to evaluate whether social media works.
That’s just my two cents worth. And yes, I l blog at ljdavis.biz/blog
Tags: Blogging, knowledge creation and sharing, performance improvement, workplace collaboration