In KCF’s recent comment, she raised some great questions about how blog writing may or may not contribute to your tenure file. Here’s a great place to start. It’s a youtube video that I first posted on my blogging and teaching workshop. The 9+ minute video includes discussions about public/private and blogging and tenure:

Here’s something else to think about in relation to KCF’s questions (I just tweeted about it on my trouble blog): Anthologize. It’s a new blog-to-book plugin. Check out what they say about it on their about page:

Anthologize is a free, open-source, plugin that transforms WordPress 3.0 into a platform for publishing electronic texts. Grab posts from your WordPress blog, import feeds from external sites, or create new content directly within Anthologize. Then outline, order, and edit your work, crafting it into a single volume for export in several formats, including—in this release—PDF, ePUB, TEI.

The Chronicle of Higher Ed also talks about it here. Could Anthologize enables blog-scholars to convert their blogs into valuable (as in tenure-file worthy) academic products? Or maybe they could help blog-scholars to disrupt and rework what should/does count as valuable work?