There are several reasons educators not engaged in formal learning want to blog: 1. keep current on news2. networking among peers3. resource use and sharing4. gaining prestige and social capitalTo be successful, a NoP (Network of Practice) for literacy educators needs to provide useful content of interest to participants. There need to be regularly scheduled learning events such as podcasts, webinars, and live Elluminate presentations, along with group blogs specifically aimed at encouraging discussions between live events.In addition, lthe educators are often the passive audience, and are seldom active participants. This is not a negative thing, but re-inforces a tentative perspective, a wait-and-see approach. This is a realistic strategy for busy professionals. Lurkers form the majority of members, and the lurkers should have a compelling reason to return again and again to attend events or read posts. So, regularly posted content and blog posts and resource recommendations are crucial to successful retention of lurkers. The discussions in the presentations, members' blogs and the group discussions need to account for questions and comments of participants. Multiple forms of feedback need to be encouraged.To ask questions and discuss ideas about edublogging off this page, free to visit my blog at http://me2u.athabascau.ca/elgg/glenngr4/weblog and at http://edublogging.posterous.com/The other strategy for building a NoP is to promote the learning event well in advance, and send to multiple literacy organizations and leaders, or champions, willing to pass along the announcements to others.In addition, there is a need to build as many connections as possible between other online networks: colleges, universities, teachers' associations, and agencies. This active networking process can take time, but allows for multiple entry points by which potential members can find out more details aboutt he learnign events and discussions.