Blogs for Administrators

Administrators could use blogs in many different ways, but staying in touch with parents comes to my mind very quickly.  Once familiar with authoring a blog, an administrator could widely distribute the blog address and have immediate output to many parents.  I think this would be very well received by middle and high school parents who so often hear that school was "fine" or "nothing is going on" from their child.  A simple blog about upcoming open houses, or asking for more parent involvement in the lunchroom would be a quick and very effective way to keep parents feeling in the loop with their child's school.