What is Group Blogging?

I have thought of this topic while I am thinking of what to write for our Blogging for Fun meme called “Fun Friday”. Since we are to write something that starts with letter ‘G’ then I thought of Group Blogging as a good topic.

Are you into Group Blogging?

Yes, I am for a time. But I didn’t get to interact much with my fellow bloggers for sometime. And this is very important if you are into Group Blogging.

Group Blogging Defined

As for me, group blogging is a collaborative blogging activity. So you start it by forming a certain group (whether formal or informal) and working on a specific task at hand to achieve results. You can do this using a single blog (with articles written by different authors) to publish your posts or individual members will only talk about a specific topic and will publish it in their own blogs.

You can talk about these things to your fellow members before starting any group blogging project.

• Purpose
• Topic
• Method
• Evaluation

Purpose

What’s in it for the bloggers to participate in this group blogging activity? You can discuss this to your fellow bloggers so you can set expectations as to the goal of your blogging efforts. Are you doing this to add spice to your content, discuss a specific topic using different points of view, share link love or fill in the gaps in your blogging activity? Take your pick. Make sure that this will be clarified before you move on to the next step.

Topic

Set the theme before you go ahead and write it. It can be imposed by the leader of the group bloggers or the members can pitch in their suggestions and choose among those topics as their final pick. I believe that this collaborative blogging activity will be more successful if members will be given a chance to choose their preferred topic to encourage more participation from their members.

Method

Let’s go back to the definition above. You can vote on whether you will use a single blog or member’s blogs for publishing your stuff. Will you adhere to a specific publishing schedule or will just observe a time table instead?

Evaluation

After you publish your work online, you can do a variation of appreciating your fellow member’s work through posting comments, promoting them through various social networks and linking to their post, among others. This will highly encourage them to keep participating and even promote this activity to other people, thus bringing in more members in the process.

Share your experience

So that’s group blogging in essence. If you have been into group blogging please share your experience working on it. Or if you haven’t experienced it, tell me why you haven’t tried it since you started blogging. I’ll be thrilled to check your comments.

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