Thu 10 Apr 2008
MLA Seeks Conference Bloggers
Posted by LAC Publicity Subcommittee under Annual Meeting
Become an ‘Official MLA Conference Blogger’ and MLA will provide you with wireless Internet access for the duration of the Annual Conference!
This year, MLA will sponsor 15 ‘Official MLA Conference Bloggers.’ Bloggers will chronicle across the Conference experience: the speakers, sessions, committees, social networking events, etc. This is your opportunity to share, officially, with the MLA community your insights and experiences. If you blog and want the convenience of wireless Internet access throughout the hotel, this is a great opportunity for you. Even if you already have a wireless solution, consider becoming an ‘Official MLA Conference Blogger.’
Since the number of wireless accounts is limited, the process is competitive. The panel of judges will consider the blogger’s experience and blog appearance and functionalities. Your conference interests are especially important as we want to ensure that conference goers can read about all aspects of the conference.
If you are named an ‘Official MLA Conference Blogger’ you will receive wireless Internet access for the duration of the Annual Conference AND MLA will acknowledge your contribution to the membership on the MLA Conference pages. All Official Conference Blogs will be listed on the Blog Roll at the MLA Conference Wiki.
Please complete the online entry form in order to be considered for Official MLA Conference Bloggership! We will display the top finalists in the days leading up to the winner. Stay tuned to see how your community is faring, but remember that all results are UNOFFICIAL until the winners are verified by the panel of judges.
Entry Deadline: May 1
Official Notification by: May 9
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April 16th, 2008 at 8:31 am
I’d be interested in applying for this, as I have been blogging for more than 3 years and have contributed to Krafty’s unofficial conference blog in the past, but I have a question about how this will be executed. It appears as though, rather than hosting one centralized conference blog with multiple authors that attendees could easily check, you would expect each blogger to post MLA-focused entries to their own blogs, distributing conference-themed posts around multiple sites. While some bloggers may appreciate the temporary traffic that could generate, having posts spread out over multiple sites may not make for the easiest reader experience. Could you clarify the plans for this project?
April 20th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
You are correct in that we are asking bloggers to use their own blogs to post MLA-focused entries
As you might remember, MLA sponsored an ‘official MLA Conference Blog’ last year. Unfortunately, very few blogs were actually posted. Because of the low utilization, this year’s committee decided to try a different route.
1 - Offering the incentive of a wireless connection
2 - We thought that the low traffic on last year’s blog might be due to bloggers’ unfamiliarity with the MLA blog and the login procedures. So we thought that by enabling current bloggers to blog as they would normally on their own blogs, that we would actually get more people interested.
3 - We are asking that all official MLA bloggers have RSS enabled on their blogs. The NPC will great a blog roll. Members interested in reading the blogs can then subscribe to 1 feed and receive 1 alert.
We understand your concerns and are hopeful that the blog roll will make it easier - both for readers and bloggers.
If this clarifies, great! if not, please contact me: popec@upstate.edu
April 25th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Clarification -
The NPC will aggregate all blog entries so that readers need only go to one place to read.
Interested readers will be able to register for notification of new postings.
April 25th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Christina,
Thanks for clarifying!