High Octane Blogging — Much Progress

The High Octane Blogging Bootcamp will begin in two weeks. We have students, judges, a company, and a community blogging platform. I will likely devote a whole post to the platform decision soon.

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The High Octane Blogging Bootcamp will start May 14, 2005. There have been a number of developments since my last post. Let me lay them out:

• Twenty-nine students have signed up to be in the Small and Medium Enterprise course of which the bootcamp is a part. That's a good number to start. Not too big and not too small.
• In alphabetical order: Susie Gardner, Sarah Goldman, and Jeremy Wright have agreed to be blogging judges for Bootcamp. They will do two evaluations each of the six teams.
• We will be working with Coach's, a local Ann Arbor company in the cleaning and restoration industry. A good web resource for this industry is the Association of Specialists in Cleaning and Restoration.
• The Port Network has agreed to host the blogging communities.

This last point is worth some elaboration. There are really a number of factors here. The two that weighed the most heavily in my mind were: (1) getting a simple enough environment to use that would allow us to fully unleash the power of xml syndication; (2) various network effects related to using widely adopted vs. narrowly adopted yet well-tailored technology. I will likely devote a post to the platform decision soon.

Bud posted this on May 2, 2005

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