Welcome to the Virtual Geography Convention 2013! If you have a presentation or blog post you wished published please contact me at catholicgauze [at] gmail [dot] com!
The Royal Geographical Society is giving away free online copies of two manuscripts primarily for academic and graduate student geographers: Communicating Geographical Research Beyond the Academy (PDF) and Publishing and Getting Read (PDF). I want to thank the RGS for their free and open distribution of this information.
The communications guide actually discusses blogging in a positive light. Personally I feel blogging and publishing go together hand-in-hand. Too often geographers write in academic babel to a very closed audience of journal readers. I have the aim of writing things my mother can understand. If she can get what I am trying to say then I know my efforts can reach and educate the public. Many academic geographers would do well to remember that working merely to get an article in a journal (where it will have no impact and die) is a waste of time and one's life. Until we return to a Harm de Blij model of public outreach on real issues we geographers will remain in a sort of exile.
Share knowledge and educate the world!
Share knowledge and educate the world!
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