My experiment with web 2.0 the healthy virus

In my book Instructional Coaching I talk about ideas spreading like a healthy virus.  A book I'm reading right now, Groundswell has got me thinking about how web 2.0 can be used to promote the spread of ideas, more specifically how I might use the web to get the word out about coaching.  So, I'm going to try an experiment. First, I'm going to use this blog much more frequently, updating it with book reviews each Sunday, for certain, along with other postings through out the week.  Second, we're going to create a forum on the instructional coaching website for open source ideas about education, priming the pump, so to speak, and publishing pdf. files of instructional coaching tools that you can download free.  We also encourage you to add your own materials. Also, I have added a number of links on my delicious site, including 14 articles I've written over the years about coaching.  Finally, I'm going to put tweets on twitter.com every few hours so that readers, if they are interested, can see where I am and what I'm thinking.  You just need to search for Jim Knight.  I encourage you, too, to get on twitter so that we can create an online community of coaches, using twitter as a way to provide windows into our worlds.  This is just an experiment, but then isn't just about everything we do.

Comments

[Aaron Sumner]

Jim, I've started a series on the Stratepedia Blog called "Social Networks for People Who Don't Use Social Networks" to share Web 2.0 tools with people who wouldn't be interested in, say, the Facebooks and MySpaces of the world. So far I've got a couple of posts about Goodreads, a network for talking about books. Next up is Delicious. I hope you and your blog's readers find it useful--

http://blog.stratepedia.org/2008/08/05/social-networks-for-people-who-dont-use-social-networks/