BP2_2010021_EducationalUsesforBlogs
I have been researching about business education for many years, especially about the factors that cause the high percentage of the failures between small businesses and, obviously trying to find the process that lets everyone interested in it to create a new form of business to follow sequential steps that lets them not just verify right up front if those minimal conditions could guarantee a better possibility of success for the option under consideration, but the capacity to calculate the risk that is involved in that particular option of investment.
During my most of 10 years as a professor, one of the areas I was teaching was Formulation and Evaluation Projects, a whole process from the idea for a business that is generated to the stage called “Starting up”. The successively integrated stages would theoretically lead the investors towards a relatively secure zone. But it seems something is missing; there is a part of the gear that is breaking the process. My hypothesis is that there are other ingredients required to secure an entrepreneurial successful goal with more probabilities.
The dynamic of the process led me to take the decision to focus my Action Research project on the same thematic; right now I’m working with primary and secondary research. This kind of work will allow me to know, among others, the main reasons of the entrepreneurial failures and the different programs these entities have built as contribution to promote a healthy growing process. It may be feasible to identify the success factors and validate their actual influence in the success of real companies.
After knowing professor Beth Strudgeon, “I am thrilled to hear that you are approaching this research from a different angle, but with it not being education based, I want to encourage you to do a few things to make sure it reflects what this program covers. The first is that I would suggest that you expand the technological aspect to cover more than just creating a web site. For example, how can social networking (such as Facebook or Ning) and virtual environments (such as Second Life) contribute to your business succeeding as well. This will help this topic become more compliant with this degree” I have considered accepting her suggestion and then I will start with a Ning Site. There will be a Blog dedicated to educate in a process purely formative to the people interested to initiate new entrepreneurial adventures, but taking special care not just in creating the ideal scenery towards the reflection process but that the candidate to operate a business can understand that in this particular area the oldest paradigm that the important thing is the enthusiasm and not the combination of knowledge, enthusiasm and some special circumstances of exploitation of opportunities is merely a thing of many years ago.
But there will be a specialized Blog; its name is “Feeding with Business Ideas”. I honestly believe there will be many posts since one of the most difficult things in creating a business is to get both an innovative and profitable option of business.
Quibble’s (2005) article, Blogs and written Business Communication Courses: A Perfect Union, generated several uneasinesses on me, but specifically in the part that refers to the Blogs in the Business World are being used in many different ways that can include Communication and Collaboration for a distributed team; as a powerful tool for reaching and communicating with both clients and future customers and communicating to them useful information about different matters and, in the case of new projects or proof of products as a real tool for a permanent feedback.
I never considered the extent of their applications to the proper intern operation of the business and the facilities that are needed constantly from and to the employees, but during my last researches I’ve found several references to this like, ”to manage and improve the flow of information among employees”, O’Shea, 2003.
It seems a Social Site like Ning and its blogs’ mechanism would be also appropriated for the other part of my business’s project based on training about 499 alternatives of business from home since it would allow me to complete all the learning stages I’ve conceived for this learning process, “Instructor uses the blog as an online course management tool where she/he posts assignments, announcements, information and summaries of lessons; a weekly topic is posted and each student posts their thoughts on the topic; post articles relevant to the course; students post their thoughts regarding articles; class discussions on course readings and lectures; students post their writing assignments and homework exercises; students exchange information related to the course's subject; students post comments, questions and advice about the course to Instructor and fellow students; students post their thoughts on what they are learning; students use the blog as a writing portfolio; students read each other's rough drafts of writing assignments and give feedback.” (Retrieved on February 06, 2010 from http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/Articles/blogonlineclass/index.htm)
I’m absolutely astonished that every day I can find new horizons of knowledge; someone could say that the knowledge has always been dynamic but certainly in this time the advances seem to be vertiginous. The basic guidelines I have had conceived for my project one year ago, right now are absolutely obsolete. Now I think Blogs in Education whatever orientation they have, purely academic, business, etc, is an ideal mechanism to be in permanent contact with reality and besides it makes possibly to react opportunity to the new tendencies and maker the adjustments as soon as they are needed.
References
Quible, Z. (2005) Blogs and Written Business Communication Courses: A Perfect Union. Journal of Education for Business, 327-332
Trimarco, R. (2004) Use of blogs in online college classes. Retrieved from http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/Articles/blogonlineclass/index.htm
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