How can educational leaders use blogs?

       There are many benefits for educational leaders when we blog. One is the art and practice of getting all our thoughts out of our head onto "paper." We can then go back to remember and analyze any thoughts that might get lost behind the day to day tasks and pressures of being an educational leader. Another, and in my opinion more important, way leaders use blogs is to create a support group by linking blogs together. Ideas and opinions can be shared, points of view can connect leaders, and leaders can share their successes and failures in order to enhance the actions of one another.