Introducing Your Blog to Your Readers

For writers, getting started is the toughest part. What do you say in that first post? This may not be the best example, but it does provide a sample. When I left my position as principal to take a central office position, the question of how to communicate with teachers districtwide was one problem I needed to solve. For me, a blog was the answer. Here is what I said to teachers in that first post.

How can we make communication easy enough that it will actually happen? This blog hopes to provide at least a part of that answer. I write the post and you read it—it’s that simple. No going to the Xerox machine to run multiple copies which are then distributed to schools, where even more copies are made, which are then distributed to mailboxes, where others quickly read and toss or try to figure out where to file random pieces of paper. Put your hands on that communication a couple of weeks later? Good luck!

Seconds after I write this post, it is available for you to read. Don’t worry about printing it out and filing it—come back next week, next month, or next year, and it’s going to be here for your review.

Coming soon will be a calendar not only for the system as a whole, but for each school. Wouldn’t it be nice to know what’s going on around the school system with a couple of clicks of your mouse? Stay tuned. It’s going to happen.