Dina Mehta makes a great point in her post, My Blog is My Social Software. She comments that her blog contains a dynamic profile and much more about her than her entries in the official social software packages. Her blog also contains her friends and the people she links to read in her blog roll. Others link to her in a similar fashion. She concludes that her blog provides her one stop shop for many social networking issues.
Peter Caputa shares Dina’s view in his post, Blogging is the Ultimate Social Software. Peter points to all the dynamic features in blogs that build and maintain social networks. He concludes with a reference to Judith Meskill. Judith and Dina are two new colleagues who I found through blogging as I commented recently
Dina’s one stop is getting a wider range of services. Similar thoughts have emerged about blogs and email. Kathleen Gilroy provides a quote from Jason Calacanis at the Weblogs Inc on an interesting idea in blogs as the new email: ”It’s becoming clear to me that blogs are not simply journals or editorial. They are, in fact, the new email address.” Here is more on the topic in my post, Blogs as the New Email.
I also use my blog as my organizational affiliation when I am asked to provide one but then I am an individual writer/consultant. Blogs will not solve all the problems of the world but they seem to do some things better.
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