Team Blogging

In 2006, Nuts About Southwest rolled out with a handful of regular contributors, and over time that number grew. It was difficult in the beginning because of what most thought might be a heavy commitment.

 "The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up."

Today, the core blogging Team consists of 30 bloggers from across a wide range of locations and disciplines who post regularly, and they are backed by an army of other infrequent bloggers from the Employee ranks and Customers.

Seven years in the blogging world is like, well, 40 years in the airline industry. Many of their pioneer bloggers have moved on into different jobs or have retired, and they are honored as Alumni Bloggers. Like the Original Employees, these Original Bloggers paved the way for the success of Nuts About Southwest, and they are true social media pioneers.

"Rock Around The Clock"   ...   Bill Haley & His Comets

Team blogs are quite useful when small groups of people wish to contribute to a single blog. In Hawaii, dancing Studios all have Web sites so they do not feel they need Blog sites. With us it has been basically, one person initially creating the blog, then adding other people to it as information and photo contributors. Later on only when the members are ready, they are invited as Guest Authors.

Team members can either be administrators or not. Administrators do not have to do anything but they can edit all posts (not just their own), add and remove team members (and grant admin access), and modify the blog's settings and template. I don't expect any of our blogs to ever have more than ten bloggers. If each blogs only three times a month you have a blog a day. The hits will go through the ceiling and I am talking about 1000 average hits per day coming in from all around the Pacific Rim.

Non-admins can only create and edit their own posts. However, they pretty much have the complete choice of  what to write about and journalism is not necessary. What ever you need you will learn as you go along. When I first posted something that disagreed with the Rootzi Tootzi agenda, they flipped their collective lids. Most of us try to be easier on everybody but we can disagree and we have come to accept it.

Pub's Side Note:  "Mitt Romney is claiming he’s going to create 12 million jobs in his first term. But he hasn’t said yet if he’ll create them in China or India.”