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
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