Evaluation of "Our Global View"

Our group blog, "Our Global View", has finished today and whilst I really enjoyed writing it and being part of a team, there are many things which we have hopefully learnt from. 

Let's start with what worked well... as individuals, our team of seven people all come from different backgrounds and have different perspectives on current affairs and what interests us, which I think made the blog really gel well together.

The end result was a mash up of of styles, opinions and perspectives which ultimately helped to differentiate our blog from other news blogs. Especially as our different backgrounds helped us to have access to stories which haven't been reported in the mainstream western media. I think the overall content of our blog was quite good, the main problem which we had was in terms of layout and the software we chose to use. 

Firstly, our decision to set it up using iWeb (which ultimately meant that only one group member - Marianne - was able to put up posts and edit the layout) really put us at a disadvantage. 

We chose to use iWeb as we initially thought that the software allowed for more flexibility and as Marianne was our blog editor, we also thought it would be realistic for the editor to have a lot of control over how content was laid out.

However, this ultimately resulted in our blog having more of a website/ Web 1.0 feel which wouldn't have been the problem had we used Wordpress. Our blog's homepage didn't indicate when we posted new content so remained  consistently static... also, the software was not as compatible with certain elements of Web 2.0 such as news feeds via RSS.

To conclude... The actual content was good, if we had used Wordpress the blog would have worked much better and been a more successful attempt at Web 2.0.