How to write an effective blog

This is something interesting from the weekly IFEX-Bulletin. This e-newsletter is a must read for everyone interested and involved in freedom of the press-campaigns anywhere the world.

Here’s some material you might want to look at and hand on if you are working in English, Spanish or Arabic.

Calling all wannabe bloggers!

Learn how to tell your story to the world with „Ten steps to citizen journalism online“, hot off the press in
English, Spanish and Arabic.

Find out how to get started, from which sites will best host your blog
(like those that allow you to write in languages other than English) to how
you can remain anonymous. Then get some handy tips on how to say what you
want effectively – and get others to listen. All this, while learning your
blogger rights and how to avoid breaking the law.

The guide, prepared by journalist and media trainer Stephen Franklin, also
includes links to „bloggers who have made a difference“ (Arabic version
only) and some of the best Internet sources on blogging around. Franklin
spent four months in Cairo, Egypt working with bloggers on behalf of the
independent media group International Center for Journalists.

The English and Spanish versions are hosted on the International
Journalists’ Network website, at:
- English: http://tinyurl.com/yp7n5d
- Spanish: http://tinyurl.com/ywvurh

Read the guide in Arabic on the Arabic Initiative for a Free Internet
website:

The Arabic guide has also been issued as a CD, which includes resources
from established Arab bloggers and Reporters Without Borders (Reporters
sans frontières, RSF).

To get a copy of the CD, email Arabic Network for
Human Rights Information at: info@hrinfo.net

(Source: IFEX COMMUNIQUÉ VOL 16 NO 27 | 3 JULY 2007)