Support for bloggers

Organisations supporting bloggers

There are organisations working to support individuals and organisations that use blogs to further their cause. Most of the resources linked to below are available in many languages.

Global Voices Advocacy is a project of Global Voices Online which seeks to build a global anti-censorship network of bloggers and online activists throughout the developing world that is dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and free access to information online. Blog for a Cause!: The Global Voices Guide to Blog Advocacy explains how activists can use blogs as part of campaigns against injustice around the world. They also produced the guide to Anonymous Blogging with Wordpress and Tor which is included in this toolkit.

Rising Voices aims to extend the benefits and reach of citizen media by connecting online media activists around the world and supporting their best ideas. An Introductory Guide to Global Citizen Media, offers context and case studies which show how everyday citizens across the world are increasingly using blogs, podcasts, online video, and digital photography to engage in an unmediated conversation which transcends borders, cultures, and differing languages.

Reporters Without Borders produce a Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents which gives tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation have produced a Legal Guide for Bloggers which is mainly focussed on US law.

Transitions Online supports young, up-and-coming journalists in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.