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Basics
List of Blogging Terms, Wikipedia,
Blog Software or Blogging Platforms, Wikipedia
Blog Software Comparison Chart by Online Journalism Review, USC Annenberg
ProBlogger Blogging for Beginners ProBlogger is a website dedicated to teaching people about professional blogging/blogging for money. Many tips apply to all bloggers.
Nonprofit's Guide to the Blogosphere
10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs
Seven Blogging Tools Reviewed
"A detailed look at the top blogging tools and key considerations for
nonprofits."
Seven Competencies of Online Interaction by Nancy White of the Online Facilitation Blog
Tips
CopyBlogger, Copyblogger is particularly good for the Copywriting 101 series which shares tips on how to write great posts.
TechSoup Technology for Nonprofits-Fabulous resource for all nonprofits for any type of web or other technology needs. Articles, reviews of tools, and more.
Blogs in Presentation
FYCS News http://fycs.ifas.ufl.edu/news
Cooking up a Story http://cookingupastory.com/
Family Album Radio http://www.familyalbumradio.org
USA Today OnDeadline http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/
ClifBar http://www.clifbar.com/blog/index.cfm
Research News You Can Use http://fycs.ifas.ufl.edu/newsletters/rnycu06/index.htm
North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/calscommblogs
Avian Influenza Blog
http://weblogs.nal.usda.gov/avian/index.html
Urban Sprouts: http://urbansprouts.blogspot.com/
U.S. Food Policy Blog http://usfoodpolicy.blogspot.com/
The U.S. Government RSS feed Library available at: http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Libraries/RSS_Library.shtml
Do-it.org.uk http://www.do-it.org.uk/magazine/blogs
Tarrant's Tidbits http://fycs.ifas.ufl.edu/staff/tidbits/index.htm
Feed the Soul http://www.feedthesoul.org/
Connecticut Food Bank http://www.ctfoodbank.org/blog/blog.cfm
Healthy Recipe Doctor http://blogs.webmd.com/healthy-recipe-doctor/
A Weight Lifted http://aweightlifted.blogs.com/
Rudd Sound Bites http://ruddsoundbites.typepad.com/rudd_sound_bites/
Sustainable Table http://www.sustainabletable.org/blog/
Tools
Technorati- blog tracking service and blog search
Feedburner-service that allows automatic emailing of blog entries to subscribers, other methods of promoting your blog, distributing your content
BlogBurst Sign up to syndicate your work in newspapers and online portals.
Bloglines-Feed aggregator, also allows you to create email addresses for newsletter subscriptions so your newsletters show up in your feed reader rather than your email box.
"You can create an unlimited number of special Bloglines email addresses that are tied to your Bloglines account. The email addresses show up as subscriptions in your My Blogs page, and email sent to those email addresses appears as new items.
When you create a Bloglines email address, a subscription is added to your account. If you unsubscribe from that subscription, the email address becomes invalid and mail sent to it will bounce.
Email subscriptions are great for announce-only or broadcast mailing lists that don't provide RSS feeds. They are also useful as temporary email addresses."
Popular Blogging Platforms
EduBlogs Free hosted blogs (wordpress) for Educators
Wikis
eXtension Cooperative Extension Wiki
Wiki Science-How to Start a Wiki - Includes a list of wiki providers
The Atlantic, The Hive, September 2006
Legal
Electronic Frontier Foundation This nonprofit organization concerned with digital media rights works primarily through the courts but produces a number of FAQs on legal aspects of blogging from your rights and responsibilities as a publisher as well as intellectual property and copyright issues in blogging.
Sylvia Mercado-Kierkegaard, Blogs, lies and the doocing: The next hotbed of litigation?, Computer Law & Security Report, Volume 22, Issue 2, , 2006, Pages 127-136.( )
