BloggerCorps blogs

Unterrified Cricket

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:26:13 -0400

I'm a Columbus blogger that is new to the group.

Check out my blog at cricketculture.blogspot.com.

How's that for shameless self-promotion?

Hi all

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:37:50 -0400

New to this site but am truly honored to be with ya'll. I have been blogging for almost tqo years now and am looking forward to metting many of you.

Conrad Smith
aka "The Convoluted Muse"
http://blog.notso.org

developingwords.org

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:22:45 -0500

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to let you know about my website, developingwords.org.

The idea is simple. Writers living in developing countries send us a few letters every week
in the form of a journal entry. Each entry is then digitized and posted to an online blog hosted at
developingwords.org. There are ads on each blog and 100% of the revenue generated by
the ads is sent back to the writers. The beauty of the idea is there is no limit to how much revenue our
writers can earn.

In addition to this we will also be accepting writers working abroad for Ngos such as the Peace Corps.
In this case the money they earn goes towards the cause they are working on.

I think if you visit the site you'll understand the project a little clearer. As of today it's about 90% complete but we
still need some good and interesting writers to contribute content. Please contact me if you are interested in participating!

best, Mason

Malaysian Blogger searching for contact

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:17:08 -0500

I'm a blogger looking for contact from all over the world. My blog is about culture, technology and art. Friendship and correspondent is very much welcome. Visit my blog at http://syedsyahrul.blogspot.com.

syed syahrul zarizi
syed.syahrul@gmail.com

Project Tolak

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 22:52:59 -0500

Choose a button and make a different! go to http://tolak.blogspot.com

Search to RSS to Blog About Bikes: Check it Out

Tue, 06 Dec 2005 01:30:05 -0500

I'm blogging in a way that I think is rather innovative and thought that visitors here might find of interest. I'm working for the Sustainable Energy in Motion Bike Tour and using a blog to develop informative relationships with visitors interested in sustainability, bikes and related issues.

So I've set up an RSS feed reader for myself with multiple web, news, blog and multi-media searches for each of the locations the tour will be visiting and for general themes of interest when mentioned in conjunction with our state, Oregon. Those feeds bring me breaking news about organizations hosting the tour and a variety of other interesting information that I hope will make the SEIM blog a key place to visit to learn about eco-type issues in the north west.

If you're unfamiliar with RSS feeds, I've written an intro to the concept on my personal blog here.

The theory is that the more people will learn from the blog in support of the tour, the more interested they will be in registering to come on the tour themselves. Does that sound like a good approach to you? The tours that are planned are very cool as well, so the blog is going to have to be good. Check it out, maybe you'll want to join us on one of the tours, too.

Keep up the good work everybody! The blogosphere totally rocks!

Looking for a volunteer for a website and blog

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:11:09 -0400

I work at CompuMentor and manage our volunteer matching program, Mentor Matching.http://www.compumentor.org/consult/mentor/default.html We match mentors (what we call our volunteers) to nonprofits to work on non critical short term technical projects. I'm looking for a volunteer to work on a project with an organization called "Interplast".

Interplast is the first international humanitarian organization to provide free reconstructive surgery in developing countries, makes a direct and profound difference in the lives of 3,000 children each year who suffer physically or emotionally from a congenital deformity or injury.

Interplast would like a mentor to help assess how they can further grow their website and blog.
http://www.interplast.org

Some features that they are considering are:
-live chat
-RSS
-downloadable video
-podcasting interviews with doctors

They currently have a blog:
http://interplast.blogs.com/

They'd like advice on how to streamline the process of their staff uploading content and images from the worksite. (which is often in developing countries)

Flexible availability to meet with the mentor.Flexible availability to meet with the mentor. Client will be at a worksite in China and will communicate with the mentor through email and through Skype: http://www.skype.com/

Please email mentor@compumentor.org if you're interested in working on this. Thanks!

Grassroots.org

Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:42:03 -0400

Hello,

My name is Joe Jurczyk from grassroots.org. We offer free web hosting, web design and legal consulting to other nonprofit organizations. Our blog focuses on online technology tools and resources for nonprofits.

Joe
joe@grassroots.org

Go on take the money and run

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:26:40 -0400

You previously posted a story and request for help on a past project that ultimately led to Wakapoa.com being created for a returned Peace Corps volunteer. Very awesome! Thanks!

I have a new request. In the past I worked with mentally impaired adults in Minnesota. My aunt now heads a non-profit that seeks to help challenged adults train for jobs and finds them work so that they may be a bit more self reliant. Their organization paid a webdesigner to recreate their website for them and he did...but crappily. He took their money and ran and now they have this half assed site and no more money to finish it up. Can we find a volunteer to help out with this site? This is the site: http://www.midwaytraining.org

Help in SW Michigan

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 00:24:28 -0400

Hello Fellow Bloggers,

I am both a blogger and an activist, I have been blogging for a couple of years. Many groups and individuals have I tried to get to use weblogs and wiki. The recent attempt to get a project some web media is doing ok, but needs help in the fundraising sphere.

Basically, voter rights in Benton Harbor Michigan are being challenged and the brunt of the attack is falling on the communities most outspoken activist, Rev. Pinkney. He faces many charges of voter fraud and such. I have met the man and feel he speaks truth and is innocent of the charges.

Please help me figure out how to raise the profile of this situation and how to help pay for the lawyer services needed to keep him out of jail.

Many thanks and I look forward to watching this community develope.

Best, Mark

> see BANCO

Help Get PBS to Show our Documentary on Oct. 27!

Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:25:29 -0400

We need you to contact PBS to ask them to show "Small Fortunes" on October 27, 2005.

I am on the board of a non-profit organization called Unitus and Unitus helped produce a documentary, called "Small Fortunes" about Microcredit. PBS has agreed to show this beautiful and powerful film about this effective poverty-fighting tool on October 27, 2005 at 10:00pm EST.

However, local PBS stations have the choice to show it or not.

We need help to have as many people as possible contact their local PBS station and ask them to include this show in their programming. It is important to do this now, because programming schedules are getting set between now and the end of August for most stations.

Could you help us by contacting your local PBS station today to tell them about your interest in microfinance and ask them to broadcast Small Fortunes on October 27. Positive and personalized emails and phone calls are most effective; mass produced mailings are not.

To locate the PBS station in your area, please visit:

www.pbs.org/stationfinder

Microcredit is where small loans, usually between $50 and $200, are given to the very poor in the developing world. The poor use these loans to start a very small business that allows them to earn more money than they could through day-labor. The borrowers pay this money back and then qualify to receive a bigger loan. What is amazing is that over 95% of the poor pay these loans back. Then that money is available to loan out again to more borrowers.

To read more about microcredit, you can read my personal blog at:

http://unitus-microcredit.blogspot.com/

Youth civic engagement through community mapping

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:10:01 -0400

Hi again,

I am keen to hear from bloggers with an interest in civic activism through youth community mapping activities. We are starting 4 teams of youth up in the fall (funding is close to being finalized) with one team handling the leadership and decision making along with adult and mentor support. I see blogs as a natural fit for supporting and pushing forward our agenda. Your help and advice would be most appreciated.

Brent

Youth Community Mapping

Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:00:59 -0400

Hi everyone,

My Program is called Community Resource & Learning Room. As a community based organization running within a local (large high school) we are providing support, volunteer opportunities and citizenship roles for young people as a way to build skills and give youth a stronger voice in the community.

In the fall we are launching a youth community mapping program in partnership with an international youth organization. Our focus will be on youth discovering and mapping their local environment with a particular interest in understanding and taking action on youth poverty and homelessness. We want to connect the teams who will be doing the mapping to each other and to the facilitators/mentors who will work with the teams. We also want to use blogs as a means to dessiminate our findings effectively. I would appreciate help from a blogger who can see the options available and advise me on how to organize a blog effectively and or an cluster of blogs (each volunteer member create a blog?).

I am learning on the fly and am a quick study so if you can help, I would be most appreciative. I have plenty of background on the Program rational, goals, activities and work plan if you would like to go over that.

Thanks,

Brent MacKinnon

Program Manager, Community Resource & Learning Room

an international NGO venturing into the world of blogging

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:51:13 -0400

Hello everyone,

I am writing to request advice/assistance in starting a blog for the Trickle Up Program, a non-profit that gives small grants and business training to the poorest of the poor around the world.

Our hope is that our program staff will be able to share both the successes and the failures of our programs in over 14 countries in an open, transparent way, with members of our community - connecting the daily struggles of poor isolated people with the rest of the world in the living, breathing way that unassuming blogs support.

To this end, we are looking more for assistance is setting up our blog, than in maintaining it. We are considering CivicSpace, but also leaning towards Typepad as an easier vehicle for beginners. We are also looking for advice regarding the development of institutional guides and training for our staff. We would very much like to hear about and learn from other NGOs experiences.

Thank you all and best wishes.

Lori S. SchompTrickle Up Program104 W. 27th Street, 12th FloorNew York, NY 10001-6210

Asiavists.org

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 14:09:30 -0400

Hi,

Just giving a heads up to any Asian and or Asian American community activists. I'm in Boston and originally from Philadelphia.

Charles