BAO Blogger Questionnaire

We've written these questions to help us help you, and also to give you a way to think about blogging as a new way to distribute your work and to get feedback from colleagues, students, and from others interested in your subject anywhere in the world.

1. What is your particular expertise? Please define the focus of your work in 40-50 words.

0/60 allowed words.

2. What are the most important reasons for you to blog? (Check up to 5 items.)

	My subject needs a forum like this where colleagues can discuss new findings
	I am doing timely research that needs immediate online publication
	I have controversial results and/or opinions to share
	Colleagues encourage me to write for a general audience
	I'd like to get feedback from colleagues and others interested in my subject
	I want to provide unique information, data, or analysis
	I have a fresh approach to the subject

3. Who is the audience for your blog? (Check no more than 3 items.)

	Students—your own
	Teachers in your field
	Students—other
	Colleagues doing related research
	Professional people needing information on your subject

4. Which of these benefits or possible benefits matter to you? (Check as many as you like.)

5. Which of the items here, adapted from a list posted by Dave Pollard as "What the blogosphere wants more of," would be part of your blogging?

6. What worries you about blogging?

7. If you already have a blog, please provide the URL and in the final question on Page 3, where you'll also give us your contact information, please provide more detail: when you started, how it's developed, what you'd like to do differently at a group blog based around a shared subject.

	Connect with people in my field around the world
	Reach a wider readership than through scholarly publications alone
	Become part of interdisciplinary scholarship community
	Berkshire Publishing IT support and editorial guidance, and some publicity
	Refine and develop ideas for new book projects, and maybe build a readership in the process
	Licensing income
	Raise my ranking in Google
	Corporate speaking opportunities
	Speaking opportunities at universities and conferences
	Connect with colleagues and get their feedback
	Have my work categorized and cross-searchable with a wide variety of other scholars from other disciplines and countries
	Connect with others who are interested in my subject
	Find new information by posting queries

	Précis, summaries, reviews and other time-savers
	Live reports from events
	Great photos
	Great finds: resources, blogs, essays, artistic works
	Personal stories, experiences, lessons learned
	Insight: leading-edge thinking & novel perspectives
	Original research, and surveys
	Fun stuff: quizzes, self-evaluations, other interactive content
	Benchmarks, quantitative analysis
	Useful tools and checklists
	Short educational pieces
	News not found anywhere else
	Clever, concise political or other opinion

	Learning to use the software
	Trying to compete with my kids and my students
	My spelling
	Finding time
	Nothing at all