By Rob J Wells
Welcome to LSJ bloggers. I’ve set this site up to provide a place where journalism students at the University of Lincoln can get together and discuss topics to blog about, and to assemble a directory of students’ blogs.
The skeleton — this site — is in place, but the rest of how it’s going to work needs to be decided by the students who are going to take part.
The idea and implementation of LSJ bloggers owes a huge debt to Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists over at Journalism.co.uk. TNTJ is a way for young journalists around the world to get together and debate the future of journalism.
LSJ bloggers is meant to be similar, but with a much tighter focus — students at Lincoln — and the topics will be whatever students want. The other main goal for the site is to “remove the futility of blogging”, and make blogging a worthwhile activity for students.
To make this work it needs the active support of students, but doesn’t require a lot of individual effort. All you have to do is say what you’d like to write about, talk it over with your peers, and then we’ll all go away and write about it.
If you have comments or questions, please either leave an answer at the end of this post, or email lsjbloggers@gmail.com.
You can read the initial proposal for LSJ bloggers here.
Technical details
LSJ bloggers runs on Tumblr. This makes everything very simple and easy to use.
To submit posts, students can go to the submission page. The submission page is set up for link posts only. The idea is that students will post on their own blogs first, and then submit the link and either the full post or an excerpt of it.
If you have a Tumblr account, you can also become a member of LSJ bloggers, which will give you access to the site’s dashboard. If not, then there’s no real advantage to doing so — using the submission page is just as easy and straightforward.
Any questions or comments?
Introducing LSJ bloggers, a Lincoln blog ring
