Category Archives: Blogging

Do we need a blog by another straight, white, male?

I started the Sustaining Community blog to highlight resources and information that I thought were relevant to students and practitioners. Soon after, I also started writing content that I thought might be useful. The style and voice of the blog … Continue reading

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List of posts for 2021 and 2022

A list of the Sustaining Community blog posts for 2020 and 2021. Continue reading

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Blog statistics for 2022 (Transparency report)

An overview of some of the key statistics for 2022 for the Sustaining Community blog. Continue reading

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Changing focus of the blog

I started blogging around August 2010 (and moved to WordPress in 2011) as a way of sharing interesting resources with students studying online subjects I taught on community engagement and community capacity building. A few years later (around 2014), I … Continue reading

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Starting my blog habit again

Having just read Atomic Habits by James Clear, I’ve decided to write at least 20 words a day on my blog. It doesn’t mean there will be lots of short posts like this, but I hope it will mean that … Continue reading

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Two million views!

Today is quite a big milestone for my blog: I passed 2,000,000 views! Continue reading

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People who don’t respect other people aren’t welcome on my blog

I’m quite angry. I don’t like it when other people try to share a message of exclusion and hate (although they would disagree) through my blog. In 2013, I shared the image above with the following comment This is a … Continue reading

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List of 2020 posts

A list of all my blog Continue reading

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Blog statistics for 2020 (Transparency report)

Each year I provide an overview of my blog statistics in case they are helpful or of interest to anybody else. I know when I started I had no idea what to expect in terms of number of views, so … Continue reading

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List of 2019 posts

Here is a list of my blog posts for 2019 and how many views they received. Continue reading

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