Very Popular Types of Blogs (Examples, not endorsement)
- Products / Gadgets (Engadget)
- News / Politics (Huffington Post)
- Humor (I Can Has Cheezburger)
- Celebrity / Gossip (TMZ)
- Business / Money making (Seth’s Blog)
- Blogs / Web technology (Mashable)
Blogging Styles: Authorship
- Single author (Xiaxue) Caution: large image files, strong language
- Multiple author (Daily Kos)
- Reader participation (PostSecret)
Blogging Styles: Point of View
- Personal life (see Xiaxue)
- Commentary / opinion (see Seth’s Blog, Daily Kos)
- Factual / documentary (see Engadget)
- Factual / academic & professional (Dieneke's Anthropology Blog)
- Fiction / entertainment (see TMZ, I Can Has Cheezburger)
Popular Blog Hosts
- Blogger (Blogspot)
- Type pad
- Live Journal
- Blogs also available as part of MySpace
Blog Host Address vs. Domain Name
- Blog host address: http://courtartist.blogspot.com
- Domain name: http://www.courtartist.com
Resources to help you with your blog
- FeedBurner: A way to distribute your content to readers however they want it (Demo at: http://blogs.feedburner.com/pub/mov/FeedBurner-Blog-Demo.mov)
- Technorati: Search and resources relating to blogs
- Google Analytics: Reports on visitors to your blog
- Surveymonkey: Create and collect data using online surveys
Some Social Work Blogs
- Live Journal Social Work community: A community for discussing all aspects of social work, whether you are an actual worker or just interested in helping others out. The profile page lists other Live Journal communities with a social work focus.
- CareSpace: Community forum run by the UK social work magazine Community Care.
- IRISS: Scottish institute for research in social services. Numerous resources, including podcasts of conference presentations.
- Help Starts Here Blog: Sponsored by the National Association of Social Workers, blog entries consist of short articles of the type that would at one time appear in a journal or trade magazine
- The Social Work Podcast: Provides information on all things social work, including direct practice (both clinical and community organizing), research, policy, education... and everything in between.
- Fighting Monsters: Life and thoughts of a British social worker. Very thoughtful and prolific blogger who also maintains a list of other social work blogs. Explore!
- Diary of a Burned Out Social Worker: Example of an anonymous blog (by Burned Out Betsy) that might provide interesting insights
- Social Work World Blog: For Social Workers, Social Work Students and Those Interested In Social Issues. Infrequent entries.
- New Social Worker online forums: Has a wide range of forum topic areas, but not very user-friendly.
- Social Sciences Blog (UK): This blog has a section on social welfare that covers topics of interest to social workers
- Trauma Treatment for Children: Explores the theory and practice of trauma informed and relationship based treatment for children and adolescents, using the Restorative Approach.
- Bricks and Mortar: Created to accompany a social work course at Taylor University, an evangilical Christian institution. Topics include community organizing and development, nonprofit management, social entrepreneurship, and international development.
- Social Work through Hip Hop: YouTube videos
Some blogs with themes related to social work
- Homeless Forums: International forums for homeless or formerly homeless people and others wanting to learn about homelessness.
Some Nonprofit Blogs
- Where Most Needed: The Charity Industry Observer Probing the Deeper Links & Linkages
- Nonprofiteer: Nonprofits without the Nonsense (Kelly Kleiman)
- Beth’s Blog: A place to capture and share ideas, experiment with and publish links about nonprofit technology
- BlogHer: The community for women who blog, includes a section on social change, nonprofits & NGOs (men can join)
- Charity Governance: Frequently posts, but with a focus on technical legal issues
- Don’t Tell the Donor: An anonymous source of news and opinions from the world of nonprofit fundraising... whether it's ripped from the headlines or gossip from development offices... these are the stories you might not want to tell the donor (fundraising focus, nonprofits and political fund raising)
- The Agitator: Fundraising and advocacy strategies, trends, tips … with an edge (emphasis on cause marketing, direct mail & telemarketing)
More available in this recent list compiled by the New York Times.
Other Tools
- Guidestar: IRS filings of nonprofit organizations
- Social Network Research
