Blogging About Blogging
Greetings! It is with great excitement that I post my first blog for the online edition of ADVANCE for Administrators of the Laboratory. I would like to use this first post to introduce myself and discuss the direction in which I hope to take this bimonthly "administrative" exchange.
Professionally, I am a medical technologist with 30 + years of experience in laboratory science with a diverse array of experience. I have worked the bench in all areas of laboratory medicine across the scope of my career. I am currently employed at my alma mater, the University of Delaware, as the laboratory coordinator at Student Health Services. My master's degree in education provided me with multiple employment opportunities in both the education and administration arenas. All administrative positions employ the components of education. My hope is to incorporate into the blog my "writing across the curriculum" experience that was an educational focus in my classroom teaching at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. My daily administrative experiences, as well as my interactions with the Clinical Laboratory Science Program and professional organizations such as ASCLS and CLSI, will help to fuel the blog topics presented each month.
ADVANCE Web Editor Kelly Graham and I connected through a post to a medical laboratory list-serve. My post was requesting tips and pointers on establishing a consulting business. Kelly contacted me to determine if we might strike up a mutually beneficial relationship. This blog feature is the result of that interaction. I would like to take you on a journey through the development of my consulting business. At times this may be at a "jogging" pace while at times it will be a "slogging" pace. During the slogging, I will fill my posts with laboratory timely management topics that represent universal concerns or focus. I may even invite some visitors to blog with me from time to time to present pros and cons or an expanded view of a topic.
The hope is for lots of interaction and comments related to my blogs. This may, in fact, fuel the fire for responses of additional blogs on a hot topic.
I have been developing a list of references for blogging as some of this is new territory for me, as well. I will end my post with an abbreviated list. Maybe you can add to them and we can create a reference list to share.
Refer to some of these blog references as we jog or slog along through the first few posts. I will be doing the same.
www.blogger.com
www.hwyblogs.com/how-it-works.php
http://howtoblogsite.com
Books available include:
Essential Blogging: Selecting and Using Weblog Tools
Blogging for Dummies