Blog Hui 2006

Praxis is an opportunity for practitioners – bloggers – to step up and share their practice and learnings.

Praxis gives serious bloggers an opportunity to share their experience particularly if you’re using blogs in different and creative ways, and in ways benefitting the greater community. Praxis presentations need to contain substantial content which relates to the theme ‘Activate!’. The object of the exercise is not to tell all your gritty secrets (although you can if you like), but rather to outline your experience with a view to encourage, support, uplift, and inspire others to create a thrilling blog experience for others. Tell us what worked, and what didn’t – and where to from here using your experience.

Please note, while praxis is not expected to be a highly academic paper, this is not an opportunity for you to rant about how cool your blog about how cute your dog is – there will be ample opportunity to talk about this to all and sundry at the breaks. And you are welcome to submit your praxis outline to the peer team for consideration

As with Papers, Posters, or Presentations, topics covered could include:
• Case studies of local experiences in implementing blogging technologies
• Blogitics – blogging as a political tool – activism online
• Blogging the arts: Web 2.0 independent music publishing, photographers, and artists
• Personal blogs and portals
• Blogging with a conscience – blogging to make a difference
• Portfolio blogging – promoting, presenting, and protecting your creativity
• Developing blog-based teaching materials, resources and techniques
• Fear and loathing in the long tail – managing your public life online
• Blog writing style
• Collaborative blogging
• Making money with your blog
• Desk top blogging – fine publishing from home
• Building your community and traffic, connecting with your tribe in the blogosphere
• Blogging on the intranet – blogging in the office
• Traditional PR, marketing and the “blogosphere”
• Theoretical and conceptual reviews, technical reviews
• Social networking tools, blogging tools, aggregation and technology: RSS, XML, podcasting and video blogging

Praxis descriptions represent the basis of a presentation at Blog Hui. They need to contain substantial content which relates to the theme ‘Activate!’. Praxis descriptions will be peer reviewed and will be made available to all participants at Blog Hui.

Please only share the information you feel comfortable with. If there are commercial, privacy, or other considerations please do not even start to make that information available.

Praxis:
Step 1:
Send an outline of your praxis – a maximum 200 words – to the Blog Hui Papers Review Team – (papers@bloghui.org) no later than January 31, 2006. That’s a deadline. Earlier is better.

Step 2:
If your praxis is accepted by the Blog Hui Papers Review Team they will confirm no later than February 10, 2006.

Step 3:
Email (papers@bloghui.org) your description – (note: 2,500 words maximum) no later than February 28, 2006. That’s a deadline. Earlier is better. Please supply your document formatted compliant with the document specifications (see below). Papers will be incorporated into a CD of the hui proceedings, which will be available to participants.

Step 4:
Prepare your presentation. If your praxis is accepted you will have a strictly limited time for your presentation. A PC with PowerPoint, net access, and a data projector is available at the venue. Please speak about your praxis, your experience; please don’t just read it out – a) that’s just plain boring; b) hui participants can read it themselves off the cd; and c) people can just visit your blog.

Praxis Specifications:
Praxis may be submitted by a team, however the same amount of time will be allocated whether there is one speaker or five. Please ensure the details of all authors are fully documented.

Praxis descriptions must not exceed 2,500 words. Body text 10 point Times or Times New Roman, headline text Arial or Helvetica bold, single spaced with 25 mm margins all round, and including full contact and affiliation details for all authors, all tables, diagrams, figures and screen shots in their desired positions, a 200 word outline, and all references (in APA compliant format).

The document can be saved in .doc, .rtf, .txt, .html, or .pdf formats. Please use standard fonts. If you are sending an .html document ensure it is a standalone file that does not need to access external style sheets or image files. Clickable hyperlinks are acceptable.

If you wish to incorporate images please use .doc, .rtf, or .pdf formats.

Any referencing should use APA referencing. A quick guide to APA Reference Style is available at Waikato University.

Your name and contact details should be included at the top of the document.

Presentations:
You are very strongly urged to allocate at least one half of the time to interactive discussion. It is suggested you should allow not more than about 1,600 words for a ten minute presentation. That’s about three words per second less 10%. Please don’t attempt to read your praxis description.

If you are using PowerPoint or other presentation software it is suggested you bring your presentation files on cd or memory stick. Please trial your presentation on a different computer before your presentation to ensure it works as it should.