This blogger just can't stop!

This probably goes without saying, but I like to stay busy. Even if I'm on break. While I've been up to all sorts of things the past three weeks (from caroling and rock climbing with the Boy Scout troop my dad is a Scoutmaster for, to seeing family and friends, to exploring the new central branch of the Madison Public Library), I've also been blogging.

Well, yeah, duh, this blog, right? 

Okay, you're partially right. This blog (I've written some pretty neat posts recently if I do say so myself) along with two others.

What? Two other blogs? Are you crazy?

Not crazy, just...a girl who...who can't stop blogging! These other two blogs are Coe affiliated. As someone who knows her way around Blogger and Wordpress (another blog platform) when I've involved in a group with a blog, I'm sort of the de facto head blogger. And that's fine by me.

The first blog I worked on over break was our Writing Center Blog (yeah, go check it out). This has been a tricky blog, mainly because the audience is so wide. In an ideal world, this blog should appeal to current consultants, past consultants, potential future consultants, and anyone else that somehow ends up on our site. There has been many brainstorming sessions and a super helpful session at the writing center conference in Tampa, led by the Berkeley Preparatory Writing Center and one of their alums, Talie Tebbi. After that session, I got to speak with Talie one-on-one and she helped brainstorm ways to improve our blog. I was so thankful for her helping us and I think that this break gave me just enough time to come up with a blog plan for 2014! I finally figured out the blog is a sneak peak into the Coe College Writing Center culture, and when you think about it that way, lots of potential blog posts come to mind and you also reach the audiences you are interested in reaching.

On top of that, you should check out the Writing Center blog because fellow Wisconsinite, Brittney, is currently live-blogging her experience from Tybee Island. Dr. Bob has a tradition of taking a group of students to Tybee Island (in Georgia, right near Savannah) for an intensive, week-long staff development class (aka the semester long Topics in Composition adapted for beautiful Georgia weather and condensed into a week). All consultants I've talked to who had done the class have said it's some of their fondest Writing Center memories.

The second blog I've been managing is a bit more complicated just because we are trying to figure out the most efficient layout. It's for the Coe Review and has become more of a blog/website/archive of past issues. We finally got our newest poetry issue online and also a pretty neat photo gallery of pictures taken at our publication release at the end of the semester (a shout-out to my dear friend, Haley, for her rad photography skills). I think I'm finally ready to move from this past poetry issue into planning for our upcoming fiction issue!

I feel like I need to blame someone for this blogging obsession, but it doesn't really feel like work for me. It allows me to write (which I love) and on a platform where lots of people can see it. I'm proud of all three blogs and have high hopes for them in 2014.