Almost famous?

Andy Warhol once quipped: "Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." The virtual world corollary to that is:"In the blogosphere, everyone will be famous to 15 people." I'm not sure which applies in this case, but I'm pleased to report that this blog has been recognized by one of the better blogs in higher education: Karine Joly's college web editor website.

In Joly's post -- Got a (controversial) change in the plans at your institution? A blog might be the perfect communication channel. -- she writes:

In higher education, the announcement of any proposed change (be it a website or logo redesign, a new strategic plan or even worse a change in the name of the institution) will result in complaints, fights, protests and worst case scenario: status quo.

That’s why the communication around the decision-making process is so critical. It’s very important to offer the proper communication channels to allow people to voice their concerns or their praises.

She then refers to this blog and explains why openness is important to this type of communication: "Obviously, comments -- mainly from alums at the time of this writing -- are open as the reverse would defeat the whole purpose of the blog, i.e. get conversations going about the project."

Joly seems to see value in this type of blog. Regardless of whether you agree with the approach UMR is taking with this name change discussion, I hope you see some value to this blogging effort, too. (And I hope there's more than 15 of you out there reading.)