Re: Business Innovations in International Development course introduction

Hello everyone!

As Professor Bugg-Levine said below, I will be the TA of this course. That means I will be in charge of making sure the blog is ready to receive your posts and comments, as well as the answers to the questionnaires. For any technical question, please refer to me and let the Professor concentrate on bringing in the best content for the class. But before that, let me go quickly over some basics.

First, whenever you feel the unstoppable urge to share something with the class, you should go ahead and email any text, links and pictures to the following address: david_delser1.innovations@blogger.com (sorry, blogger wouldn’t let me choose a less personal one). Your email will be published immediately for everyone’s benefit.

Second, once we solve Angel’s issues, we’ll set up a mechanism so everyone receives an email update after a post has been published. That way you’ll be able to rush to the blog and provide your comments or answer the questionnaires. We’re also thinking about providing updates after each comment made on the blog, but wanted to get your impression on whether that’d be a bit too much inbox cluttering. Any thoughts?

While we figure this out, and of course going forward, you can use the RSS feed of the blog: http://businessinnovations4development.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default. If you use Google Reader or any other blog reading software, this would be the best way to stay up to date with the class discussions on the blog.

Finally, I have added a blogroll with four blogs that are focused on international development. If anyone knows of a really good one that I may have missed, please let me know (email or comment!) so we can add it.

Thanks for your patience. I would kindly encourage you to provide any feedback you may have about this blog experiment. We’ve been thinking hard about how to make the course interactive outside of the classroom and would love to know how to improve the results. So please don’t be shy!

Cheers!
David