# My Idea Corner About... the Idea Corner

**URL:** https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/my-idea-corner-about-the-idea-corner/4073
**Category:** Idea Corner
**Created:** [June 30, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/my-idea-corner-about-the-idea-corner/4073 "2022-06-30T18:18:00Z")
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### Author: ![cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/user_avatar/connect.oeglobal.org/cogdog/32/2_2.png) [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/my-idea-corner-about-the-idea-corner/4073/1 "2022-06-30T18:18:00Z")

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While I eagerly await more idea corners to pop up the idea came to me (on a walk as they do) to create a topic about this idea. There was [a name used to define this approach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta), but sadly it has been co-opted by a company I will not name.

So here I will return now and then to update this idea, outlined in the pinned topic that tries to explain it and the metaphor

> [@What is the OEG Connect Idea Corner?](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/what-is-the-oeg-connect-idea-corner/4067/):
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> As part of our effort to generate ideas, discussion across the global open education interests of this space, we have set up a place here in OEG Connect for interested persons to start a new topic around a specific issue, interest area, and use it almost as a blogging-like platform, or perhaps something more substantial and permanent than a twitter thread. The idea of a corner is inspired by the well known [Speakers Corner at Hyde Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers%27_Corner) in London (and other places). A Speakers’ Corner is an ar…

## The Relevance to Open Education…

I hope it is natural, but the idea of writing publically about one’s work, ideas, came to me in the archeo-days of the web and the excitement of blogging. Influential to me was:

- **Cory Doctorow’s My Blog My Outboard Brain** (May 2022, originally published at O’Reilly [now available via the Internet Archive](http://web.archive.org/web/20040616003452/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/01/01/cory.html))
- **Jon Udell’s Framing of Narrating Our Own Work** (sometime also in 2002, many blog posts on it, [example](https://blog.jonudell.net/2009/04/28/data-driven-career-discovery/))
- [The Question Should be: Why Are You _Not_ Blogging](https://cogdogblog.com/2012/09/the-question/) (me, 2012, my own blogged take on it)

But it is not the blogging part that matters, it is the practice. And I believe it can work in many spaces, but am trying to entice others to join me here.

## I Will Speak Here About…

Hopefully I will be sharing when others e.g. you, the reader, maybe you might click a like button, but do more, start your own idea corner. But who knows? I will just narrate my own thinking about trying to convince others to take this on.

_Note: This is one example of an [Idea Corner topic](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/what-is-the-oeg-connect-idea-corner/4067/) - you can [start your own here](https://connect.oeglobal.org/c/oeg-plaza/idea-corner/80), just make a new topic, post, share, do something, update, repeat!_