[SCA-BMDL] Baronial Blog

[Karen Kasper]

Very cool, I this is a great idea, especially for those who are not on
Facebook.

Arianna

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Ishiyama Gen'tarou Yori'ie via Sca-bmdl <
sca-bmdl at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> The Barony is pleased to announce that we now have a Baronial Blog.
>
> http://www.debatablelands.org/blog/
>
> Following on the excellent example set by the Aethelmearc Gazette, we have
> extended the Baronial Web Site to include a way to post new information in
> dynamic, automatically archived, searchable, linkable, subscribe-able way.
>
> The readership of the newsletter keeps declining, and it's a constant
> struggle for the Chronicler to acquire articles, but the kinds of
> information we used to publish regularly still exists, and people still
> want to read it. It's just that the readership has moved on to other
> channels, and it's time that the Barony adapted to reach people where they
> are.
>
> We are not discontinuing the Althing as a newsletter. The Althing
> newsletter will continue to be the only channel for official communication
> from and within the Barony.
>
> The Baronial Blog simply adds another unofficial communications channel to
> the mix of mailing list, website, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and rumor
> mill that are already functioning. The webminister will work on building
> links between all these channels, so that you can pay attention to the ones
> that reach you best without fear of missing something. Some of these links,
> like the RSS feed you can subscribe to with your news reader, are already
> up and running automatically. The Chronicler will make sure that the
> newsletter still contains the official notices and most interesting content
> we have to offer.
>
> Master Broom got the blog software working on the web site, and
> Ishiyama-roku-i has been posting to the blog without fanfare just to make
> sure that everything was working smoothly. It's now time to publicize the
> existence of the blog, and start using it.
>
> For now, only those with Baronial positions and offices will be able to
> directly contribute posts for the blog, and all commentary on posts is
> moderated. The populace can always send information to the relevant
> officer, the chronicler, or the webminister for inclusion in a post. You
> can also post to one of the other channels like you are used to, and see if
> the relevant officer picks up the news for the blog.
>
> Take a look right now, at http://www.debatablelands.org/blog/ !
>
> --
> Ishiyama roku-i Gen'tarou Yori'ie
> (mka: Elliott C. Evans)
> ishiyama at ee0r.com
> http://www.ee0r.com/sca/ishiyama.html
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