BloggerCorps

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?

DB

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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/

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