Blogging: Community of Practice

Maren Deepwell

Maren Deepwell

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Blogging: Community of Practice

Many of the educators we work with have their own blogs alongside institutional or project blogs, and in these busy days, time for blogging is at a premium. So what would help you make time for blogging more regularly, and who can help you find your feet, whether you are a novice blogger thinking of writing your first post or a lapsed blogger trying to get back into it for 2025?!

Now, we believe academic blogging is not just for the holidays or indeed the odd conference, but for life (#4life), and that is why we are setting out to support a new community of practice for all education bloggers out there looking for a bit of support and motivation along the way.

Blogging Community of Practice AKA Bloggers Anonymous.

Join in

We have a dedicated channel set up in our Discord Community Space. This is a friendly social space where everyone is welcome and which is free to join.

There're also live events coming up, so keep an eye on our events calendar in the coming weeks.

What to expect

Let us know if you have any ideas for community activities, questions you'd like us to cover or support you'd find helpful. We are planning to:

  • share blogging tips and inspiration via the channel;
  • collate open resources and contribute our own;
  • organise monthly live sessions with guest presenters;
  • encourage everyone to share blog posts, what works for their blogging practice or what is stopping them from blogging.

If you'd like to be involved, get in touch and join us on Discord.

How we can help

If you are new to blogging, we're here to help. We have a wealth of experience setting up blogs on platforms like Wordpress or Ghost, whether it's a personal blog or hundreds for a whole school of students.

Over the course of the year we'll be sharing our know-how via resources, live streams on Reclaim TV and our community events in Discord, but if you can't wait to get started, then head over to our Shared Hosting page and jumpt right in.

Stay up to date via our blog. Follow us on Mastodon, Bluesky, X and YouTube.

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