Triangle Foundation Reaches Out To The Community Through BloggingIn an effort to further strengthen its relationship with the LGBT and allied community, members of the staff of Michigan’s Triangle Foundation have launched personal blogs.
“Our constituency has grown so large it can be hard to keep things on the personal level that we, and our community, prefer,” said Greg Varnum, director of Information Technology. “These blogs will provide an extra way for our community to communicate with us, and us with them, on a more personal level than is often possible with speaking engagements, policy and anti-violence work.”
And quite a constellation of blogs it turns out to be:
Executive Director Jeffery Montgomery: Outside the Triangle –
http://www.outsidethetriangle.orgDirector of Policy Sean Kosofsky: Blog O’Queer –
http://www.blogoqueer.orgDirector of Youth Initiatives and Information Technology Greg Varnum: Bloggin.OUT –
http://www.blogginout.orgDirector of Communications Dawn Wolfe: The BiWonkette –
http://www.biwonkette.orgWest Michigan Field Organizer Colette Beighley: Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Gay –
http://www.chanceofgay.orgCertainly a blog allows a member of an organization to publish his or her views quite readily. I've seen what these "speaking engagements" can do as far as reaching an audience with a message is concerned, as well as the amount and quality of community feedback an organization can get from such events. They aren't all that bad -- that would be why organizations have done them for decades -- but they leave something to be desired. This new trend of organizational blogging (or blogging members of organizations) looks like it will fill in a number of obvious gaps quite nicely.