I found this paper (Seeing, Thinking, Doing:Strategic Directives for Learning Management Systems) to contain some great information regarding "Guidelines for LMS Implementation"
- Build system around faculty and student needs
- Take advantage of pedagogical adaptability
- Allow learners to learn for themselves
- Use the open-ended availability of the LMS to rethink pedagogy
- Develop hybrid strategies for face-to-face and distance learning
- Explore the potential to evaluate both faculty and students
- Incorporate external learning spaces
- Allow the LMS to be used in ways that don't rely on the conventional size of the classroom
http://bir.brandeis.edu/bitstream/handle/10192/23877/White_Larusson.pdf?sequence=1

This site has a great list of Web 2.0 tools for educators to use in their classroom.

For those of us who are unsure of the benefits of blogging, here are some good reasons. Another good article on the same website is "The Internet and the Future of Education."