This is Learning Circuits Blog's Big Question for October.
George Siemens, who runs elearnspace, has this to say:
I'm not exactly sure how a learning professional is defined. Is it a consultant? Or the equivalent of the generic "knowledge worker"? Is it a learner in a course or program? I'll answer the question as "should everyone be blogging".Short answer: not everyone should blog...but everyone should engage in the activity that blogging enables or affords - critical thinking, reflection, meaning making, pattern recognition, etc. If I find blogs do this for me - great. Others might find it through a pen/paper reflective journal. Or weekly meetings with colleagues. The value of blogging is not that we are writing - it's that we are thinking (with the added benefit of enabling others to interact with our ideas in their own spaces).
Feel free to continue the discussion.