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Slide 1: Working with blogs Nairobi, 5 July 2010
Slide 2: 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
Slide 3: 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-organization
Slide 4:  http://ateliermaputo2010.blogspot.com/ http://www.pambazuka.org/en/ ILRI blogs http://zeleza.com/ ICRAF ssrc.org/blog maneno      
Slide 5: 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
Slide 6: Blog
Slide 7: Email
Slide 8: Newsreader
Slide 9: Website
Slide 10: Pdf newsletter
Slide 11: Login
Slide 12: Accounts    pctrain01 – passw0rd pctrain02 – passw0rd pctrain03 …08 – passw0rd
Slide 13: Start publishing
Slide 14: Finding blogs  Google blog search – http://blogsearch.google.com/ Technorati - http://technorati.com/ Blog aggregators     Global Voices - http:// globalvoicesonline.org/ Afrigator - http://afrigator.com/
Slide 15: 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
Slide 16: 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
Slide 17: Working with blogs Nairobi, 5 July 2010