Keeping these notes on a blog has the additional benefit of allowing links from future notes and discussions into the archives, rather than just saying something like “continued discussion of x from last meeting”.

Please note that the current version of WordPressMU that we are running does not allow access to RSS feeds from ‘private’ blogs. This issue will need to be resolved if ‘private’ blogs are to be useful forums for discussion.

I agree with Ian that just adding it to LISt would be fine.

What I’m wondering is why we would need to post this information in a blog other than LISt? I can’t recall anything in past AD notes that wouldn’t have been appropriate to share outside of LIS – mostly they were reports of conference attendance and “here’s what we’re thinking about doing next” notices. Any reason we’d need to keep that behind closed doors? Why not just put the AD notes as a post in LISt with an “AD notes” catagory and do the same for other team/committee notices?

Frankly, only having to subscribe to one RSS feed for LIS, or receiving one periodic email, is preferable to spreading this stuff out across multiple sites.

2.) One place would be preferred.

3.)I am one of the people that would prefer email over blogs. I find it much more convenient mostly due to the extra clicking Arabella mentioned in her post above mine. The Blog also just looks too cluttered for me. What’s the deal with all the tags in different sizes for instance? They take my attention away from the important information.

2. Central place is ok – currently lots of meeting notes are on snowleopard (very easy to save a word doc on own computer then save to snowleopard – adding to blog an extra step). Also the server has been very stable – can easily go back in time. How long will we stick with wordpress b4 we switch to the next great technology/platform?

3. blog format – fine as long as each group has its own catagory so can quickly see just that groups notes. (Can there be a link to another blog for notes such as circs?) I still want to get an email (or put it in LISt) whenever the AD notes are posted – I’m fine with following the link to the blog. I don’t want an RSS feed – I’ll ignore it – email gets my attention.

2. Yes – single place to reside is good. What about work groups that already post dept meeting notes to their own dept blog? How to minimize having to post in two places? Links? Blogrolls? Adding any blog to a blog/feed reader is an easy way to stay connected. How to avoid blog silos?

3. A blog is great format for easily and quickly disseminating info across an organization. Can a private blog have an RSS feed? What kind of permissions would be set up? Who can view? Write? Comment?

2. Probably a good idea to have things centralized.

3. The blog is fine with me personally, but I’ll be blunt: I know of some folks who are … intimidated by (or refuse to use, or have an aversion to, or just plain don’t like) blogs. (And you probably won’t hear from them that they don’t want important information available only on a blog.)