There are many convincing reasons for why academics should blog (you can see some arguments here, here and here), tweet (see here, here and here), be available at LinkedIn (here, here and here), or Academia.edu, or Mendeley, or ResearchGate, or even at Pinterest and Instagram.

The advantages are obvious: by being active in the social media you can get into immediate contact with others and receive feedback, keep yourself up-to-date regarding ongoing discussions, learn to formulate your ideas better, get visibility for your ideas and a platform that helps you to spread them. This is basically what I myself keep repeating on courses for professional practitioners willing to learn how to use social media.

Having considered it long, I have decided to start a blog here. For me, the most important reason is to document ideas on a platform which enables the discussion of issues that have no place in academic or journalistic articles, or courses, lectures and workshops. I have previously blogged in the role of an upper secondary school teacher, a university lecturer of a basic course on journalism, and an educator on a course for teachers in continuing education.

But – I am sorry for using the most typical almost-a-cliché counter-argument – blogging can become very time-intensive if you take it seriously, and that is, unfortunately, a commission I cannot take at this point. I will thus have to compromise and take my time: I can promise that I will be an irritatingly slow and lazy blogger.

Nevertheless, it may always be better to do something than do nothing, right?

So, hello world, stay tuned!