Traveling Across the State for Blog Training
Community Blogs
In addition to the LeadershipPlenty® training sessions, community coaches Anita Raddatz came out to Montana to conduct trainings for the participating Horizons communities. these trainings were held in Bozeman and Glendive. Anita delivered the trainings to a number of community members and follow-up training, will be available through contacting Edward Sypinski, these trainings have been key in getting participants more comfortable with the medium. The training includes having participants create a personal blog so they can get comfortable with the technology, then transitioning them over to the project/community blog. Each community was provided with a Kodak digital camera as part of the LeadershipPlenty® training, so Anita offered tips on how to include photos in the blog. In small communities where there is no newspaper, the blogs will hopefully prove to be a great, cost-effective way to improve communication. Outside of the bulletin board at the post office, in many cases there was no communication vehicle within the communities. The blogging project has been so successful in Washington and Anita was invited-to travel out to Montana to provide training on blogs here. The goal was to “train the trainer” so that participants can provide training and assistance to community bloggers in their states. For more information on the
Washington blogging project, and to see a list of the community blogs there, visit www.horizonspr.blogspot.com