Blogging Latin American politics
I organized a workshop (conference-ese for "discussion without conference papers") on blogging Latin American politics, which I enjoyed a lot. When I have time, I will write a post trying to summarize some of the main ideas regarding the benefits of blogging. In particular, we talked quite a bit about how blogging can help you professionally. I talked about how generally a professor does not get professional credit for blogging, so you have to think about what other rewards it provides, but I am rethinking that (Patricio Navia, who blogs on Chilean politics at Referente, in particular made a lot of really interesting points on that issue). There was a lot of food for thought.
6 comments:
I really enjoyed the workshop. Thanks again for organizing it.
Again, I'm really sorry I missed it. I tried to email you several times, but some of the emails kept bouncing back, so I'm not sure if you ever got them. If so, I profusely apologize. I just wasn't able to make it to LASA at all this year (which was a big disappointment for me, personally).
I'm glad the roundtable went well. I'll be in Bolivia starting tomorrow, but I'll try to carve out a moment to read about it. And don't forget about the new LAPIS social network site:
http://latinamericanpolitics.ning.com
Russell, thanks--I think the grad student angle was valuable because it is very different from a professor's.
Miguel, no problem at all. There are a lot of no-shows--the timing of an expensive flight with the economic crisis was a shame.
Indeed. Plus, w/ transitioning to new jobs at Ole Miss, neither of our (my wife or I) old institutions would cover our expenses, and ditto the new ones. Boo!
nice blog....
thanks for the information....
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