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November 15, 2004

BloggerCorps

Rebecca MacKinnon blurted out an idea at Bloggercon III:

...socially conscious members of the blogging community (of all political persuasions) might want to organize a "Blogger Corps." Through it, bloggers could donate their time to help poorly funded activists or non-profit groups to figure out what blogging tools are right for them, set up blogs, and develop effective blogging strategies.

Now she asks for comments about how to go about it. Go to her site to join the discussion.

(My comment: It might be appropriate to have a blog for the corps. Unfortunately, it looks like "bloggercorps.org" is being squatted. LATER: Rebecca says it's owned by a friend.)

Posted by D. Weinberger at November 15, 2004 08:04 AM

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David,
Actually I know who has those URLs... he's on our side, ready to help.
Rebecca

Posted by: Rebecca MacKinnon | November 15, 2004 08:19 AM

:-) I grabbed those domains specifically to box out the domain squatters. They're Rebecca's to do with as she pleases. And now, they point to a BloggerCorps blog just as you suggested this morning. Good call!

Posted by: John Stanforth | November 15, 2004 08:16 PM

Coming out of a conference sponsored by The Happy Tutor (http://www.weathbondage.com) in July was an idea of linking good projects together in a network using weblogs to connect activists and donors. It's still in it's early stages, but Michael Herman (http://www.globalchicago.net) has created the Small Change News Network (http://www.smallchangenews.org/) and is slowly putting it together. Don't let the lack of updates fool you...Michaal's travelling at the moment and much is going on just under the surface.

That conference involved bloggers, activits and philanthropists in three days of conversation and project planning about connecting people, resources and stories. The proceedings are here:

http://www.globalchicago.net/giving/givingwiki.cgi?GivingConferenceWikiHome

Great idea...BloggerCorps. It fits in well with some of what was talked about in July.

Posted by: Chris Corrigan | November 17, 2004 06:58 PM

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