Hello fellow bloggers, future bloggers and visitors to the Mind Bloggling site.
In the last edition of the Mind Bloggling Team news I mentioned that some of Mind Bloggling's recent accomplishments would be highlighted. As we strive to increase further awareness of mental health issues, it should be noted that the following achievements will have helped alter popular misconceptions about mental illness.
We knew that our empathetic site would be source of therapeutic comfort for people in various stages of mental health wellbeing. We knew that our innovative site could use positive endorsements and publicity from people who understood, or were trying to understand. It was a collective union from decent folks who wanted to do whatever they could to help increase our 'voice'.
One of our 'pioneer' bloggers 'etcb' had the courage and commitment to go on local radio in order to increase the Public's knowledge of our site. Etcb, passionate in our cause, has been an integral part in challenging the unfair stigma that still tries to stereotype us.
We were featured in an article on the 'ICT Hub' website. There was glowing praise of our Mind Bloggling community. Our fellow blogger 'Simon', who is a good friend of mine, was used as an example of our thought-provoking project. So well done to you Simon.
We were promoted by a London journalist named Claire White who goes under the blog name 'White Llama'. To quote Claire White : "Mind Bloggling has also made a good start with a directory of blogs encouraging people to write about mental health issues as well as everyday life. The bloggers in the group are exploring the medium, supporting each other and using blogging to engage in dialogue with each other." So this proves we are getting noticed. Claire also very kindly commented on one of my blogs alluding to what a "great project!" Mind Bloggling is.
Dr. Moira Walker of Bournemouth University had this to say about Mind Bloggling: "Blogging is a relatively recent online innovation and 'Mind Bloggling' is a a positive example of this type of initiative. This is a new project, an online community of blogs, giving a voice to people with mental health issues"...
One other highlight of the past year I would like to mention is that we were given air time on a major British radio station. We were featured on B.B.C. radio 5 Live's 'Up All Night' show during the 'Pods and Blogs' section of the programme. So with the wonderful collaboration of 'blueshawk' (the genius behind the Mind Bloggling project), 'radio man' (our man who did a podcast for Sanity Fair 2007) and 'klahanie' we were publicised around the world.
So how about that! These are just some of the accomplishments that have made our community such a powerful, positive force in our ongoing mission to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health concerns. Everytime one of our community members contributes to our site that is a personal triumph. That is very much an accomplishment.
Until next time. Peace and contentment to you all. The Mind Bloggling Team.
http://computerwizardry.wordpress.com/2007/06/ This is the ICT Hub article about Mind Bloggling. Please refer to the article: "My RSS is working!"
http://whitellama.blogspot.com/ Claire White's article on Mind Bloggling is dated August 7.
Dr. Moira Walker's article can be 'googled' it is an 'Adobe Reader' set-up. The article is on page 27 of 82 from the topic 'Mental Health Treatment Online'.
3 comments:
Hi News
Great to see Mind Bloggling blowing it's own trumpet.
The blogg has become one of the fastest growing communication media, The issue of mental health has been raised significantly by the efforts of the contribulors
Keep it up
Philip
It is vital that the positive momentum of Mind Bloggling continues. Well done, my fellow Mind Blogglers.
It's great to look back at positive achievements. It's so easy to get wrapped up in the day-to-day of things, and to forget what we were hoping to achieve in the first place...
Well done, and thank you, to everyone who has been, and who continues to be, involved along the way. Let's keep up the good work!
Sunseeker
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