Welcome to the President's Blog first posting. One of the primary concerns as a board member of the ASTD Valley of the Sun Chapter is ensuring we are providing the right services to you at the best level of quality we can. Once we've done that, the second concern is always how to communicate with you that we've done it.
Why Blogging, Why Now?
Blogging has become a great way to communicate ideas in an adhoc fashion...when the moment strikes, you can quickly get your ideas out and published to the web. This vehicle also enables you to be part of the conversation in posting responses to our posts. Lastly, this is also a great way to develop a community of people and ideas...and that's a great thing.
Why Should We Come Back?
As president of the chapter this year, I want to keep you in touch with what we are doing and give you a voice to share your thoughts and feedback on how we are doing. This blog is really all about you. I'll share information here on a quicker basis than on our traditional website http://www.astd-vos.org .
How Often Will You Post?
My goal is to post at least once a week, but if something very cool is going on I'll share it sooner.
What Do You Need From Us?
Glad you asked! :) I need you to come back, participate and share this blog with an interested friend. The people and viewpoints we have the greater this blog will be. If this works out well, we'll introduce other blogs on different topics.
Thanks for checking in. Looking forward to meeting you all at an upcoming meeting.
-- Mike Abrams
Blogging is also a great way to keep your web page dynamic. That means that the more updated your site content is with "industry" related key words the higher your page will appear on search engines, like Google and Yahoo.
Posted by: Keesha | March 19, 2007 at 01:43 PM