Correct me if I am wrong but don’t you get AHIP points if you maintain the section, chapter, regional, website? I wonder if the person doing the website would also be the one who would be maintaining the blog/wiki, since that person is usually a little more tech savvy, has the passwords, etc. If so what kind of points does maintaining the website and the blog merit?

In some ways this has increased the accessibility of the newsletter. If there is a relevant news item we go ahead and write the news item (i.e. the library buys a new journal package). In this case we go ahead and publish the news item and the news is displayed on the newsletter/blog. Our publishing schedule may not be for another 60 days. The newsletter will still be published (electronic mailing list subscription) on its predefined schedule with all news items for the period.

So at this point Wordpress is simply the container, not a blog.

Of course they should get the AHIP credits BUT I think there ought to be some accountability in the process. I think it is too easy to establish a blog or wiki or whatever and then drop it or not keep it up to date. That of course can be done with newsletters as well but it is a little harder I think to do so when you have a schedule (the newsletter must be published four times a year for instance) A blog or wiki can be very labor intensive with almost constant posts or changes. Hmmm maybe they should get more points, for using Web 2.0 technology and for keeping up with a blog or wiki for some specific period of time.