The idea of online scholarship has come up quite a bit recently at work. By this, I mean that part of a scholar’s work must, in today’s world, be done online, or at least exposed online. So when you write an article, you tweet about it. You have and maintain a blog in which you talk about your academic research and comment on events related to your field. A scholar really cannot afford to keep his or her work entirely in the hardcopy domain, passively waiting to be discovered and recognized.
It is my job, similarly, to take time to put my thoughts and ideas online. For me, topics would be educational technology, management in higher ed, and…lots of other things. If there is a resolution I’m willing to make for this year, it is not just that I will blog more often, but that I will make it a point to blog as part of my job. To be an active member of the online community on topics related to my job and my field. Yes, it’s still passive in that people have to find my blog or see my tweets, but I am here, online, and just a quick search away on Google…