Our thoughts about writing a Project Blog

In the Apps program, we are strongly encouraging our partners to write and maintain a blog documenting the progress of the project throughout the lifetime of its funding (and possibly beyond). This will help to advertise your project and be noticed on a global scale, publish early wins and good news stories, exploit synergies and build a community around your project .

The general content of the blog is up to the team working on each project, but writing it is a great way to allow others find out about the work you are doing and to facilitate interactions with other groups around the world. You could be found by potential collaborators, users of your software, and/or people who are interested in your project in general.

Here are some good (blog) articles about how to write effective blogs for, or the benefits of blogging in the research, software development and business worlds.

All ANDS requires for an Apps project blog is a few standard posts ...
Key Apps Deliverable #3 – A Software Requirements Specification;
Key Apps Deliverable #4 – Demonstrations of Value;
Key Apps Deliverable #5 - Deployed, tested and documented software system; and
Key Apps Deliverable #8 - Final Product Post
...and the inclusion of some associated standard tags (see “Which tag to use for each Blog entry”) and functionalities (e.g. an RSS feed).


In June 2012 we also hosted a webinar about project blogging which was recorded.