Nairobi, 5 July 2010

Working with blogs

Definition

“A blog (or web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.”

Source: Wikipedia

Some examples Global Voices Online - http://globalvoicesonline.org/

ODI Blog - http://blogs.odi.org.uk/blogs/main/

Ideas 4 Development - http://www.ideas4development.org/en/

Whither EC Aid? - http://weca-ecaid.eu/

Europafrica - http://europafrica.org/

More: http://www.crisscrossed.net/2008/07/02/from-a-z-to-organization20-b-blogging-examples-and-success-factors/

http://ateliermaputo2010.blogspot.com/

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/ ILRI blogs http://zeleza.com/ ICRAF ssrc.org/blog maneno

Why using a blog? Open content Ability for readers to leave comments

in an interactive format Combining text, images, and links to

other blogs, web pages, and other topic related media related

Sharing ‘news’, stories and opinions Communicate quickly One story, many formats

Blog

Email

Newsreader

Website

Pdf newsletter

Login

Accounts

pctrain01 – passw0rd pctrain02 – passw0rd pctrain03 …08 – passw0rd

Start publishing

Finding blogs Google blog search –

http://blogsearch.google.com/

Technorati - http://technorati.com/

Blog aggregators Global Voices - http://

globalvoicesonline.org/ Afrigator - http://afrigator.com/

Posting

Create a new post With title, text, images and video

Editing existing posts Choose from the list

Manage comments Moderate and edit incoming comments

How you blog Decide on type of content and what topics you

want to post about Think about who you want to write for Assign time and responsibilities for creating quality

content Create linkrolls (lists of your favorite links) and

tagrolls (links of your most commonly used keywords).

Make sure your blog is on local or thematic blog directories

Use RSS feeds Create a readership

Source: iMark - Web 2.0 and Social Media for Development

Nairobi, 5 July 2010

Working with blogs