PSU Voices and Getting Content Noticed

We've been thinking a lot about building community within the Blogs@PSU environment and wanted to share a couple of things with you. On the whiteboard is an emerging "conversation" related to getting your public blog content noticed -- noticed by whom is a natural question. Jamie Oberdick has been publishing daily content for us on the web for quite some time -- first at the ETS site, but more recently at the beautifully redesigned TLT site. Everyday Jamie finds something interesting and posts it there for us and the World to see. I am inviting you to share comments back on these posts and participate.

So what does that have to do with the Blogs@PSU? Jamie is always looking for story ideas to share openly on the site and I know he's sent emails to people in the past to get them to submit stuff ... I mean to submit myself, but that often falls well outside of my workflow and I don't do it. What I am proposing you do is when you are writing about the projects you are working on you use the tag "psuets" ... this will pull that content into a centrally aggregated results page that at the moment is being called "PSU Voices." These pages aggregate content from PSU and mashes it up with content from the social web -- Flickr, YouTube, Delicious, and Twitter conversations are currently included in the resulting pages.

Check out the PSU Voices page for psuets.

At the moment it is only stuff I've written, but if you update your old posts or create new posts with the tag psuets it will get included. I talked with Derick this morning about the idea of this being a primary way for Jamie to discover new stories ... so if you are working on something you'd like to share this is a great way to do it. Also, if you use a feed reader you can subscribe to the Voices page and receive updates whenever someone adds a new entry tagged psuets.

By the way, if you go to the Blogs Search page you can run tag searches and content searches that produce new Voices pages. Give it a try and let me know what you think. This is all still in the experimental phase, so the result pages haven't been styled yet ... but we are making progress.