The game is heating up in the blogosphere… so I better jump in and join the fun. Commenting (of course), and blogging. What’s happening is… a new community of practice all about blogging. Blogging in Higher Ed. Blogging for Educators. Blogging for life (#4life).
Time to get remixing your badge and get ready to follow Jim Groom’s call to action:
…it’s high time to let your blog flag fly. Dust off that archived site, or better yet start your very first one, and join Bloggers Anonymous to help kick that addiction to corporate social media. We’re hear to help, think of us as your blog sponsors in the original sense of that word: ongoing support and encouragement through un-monetized comments.
Over on the Reclaim Blog you can find more info about what’s in store and how to get involved:
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.
Thanks to the ever awesome Bryan Mathers and his fabulous remixer machine, there’s plenty of scope to join in and have a bit of fun, all the while preparing for that next post.
And if you are looking for inspiration to get your blogging mojo back, have a look at a post I recently shared with handy tips for blogging that I like to use to keep my practice going.

Hi, I’m Mark and I blog.
Maren,
I want to thank you again for a wonderful suggestion to start 2025. I know there are the naysayers that say the blogosphere is dead, and maybe there right, but why can’t we dream a bit on the web. That’s what got many of us doing this thing in the first place. Also, I am finding leaving a comment or firing off a quick post, when it is not do or die, isn’t all that hard. I mean when I think about all the energy (much of it very fun) I spent in Twitter just to watch in go the way of the Dodo, it makes me a bit sad. What’s more, as folks delete there accounts more and more holes in the fabric of the web appear. The self-archiving that come with blogging is one powerful remedy to that kind of centralization, and I am here for that.
Big fan!
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Ah brilliant Maren 🙂 I’m hoping to come and play too – just read your blog post on getting your blog mojo back and am looking forward to putting some of those handy tips into practice !
I appreciate all the blog chatter about thinking small, starting small, writing small. What a shift from years ago, when everything was about being big and loud and expansive. (hello, MOOCs). The result was that only the loudest voices were heard and the rest of us were sent to the edges, to watch and listen. But I think time has shown (to me, at least) that a smaller network has stronger connections, that shorter blog posts allow you to write without the worry of having to produce a treaty on the topic you are writing about, and that comments and RSS feeds are still the fundamental heart of connected communities.
Thanks for your sharing, Maren.
Kevin