Global Voices

Global Voices is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School. It is a research think-tank focused on the subjects that the mainstream media may tend to ignore. It has set out with the grandiose objective to provide a respected guide through the maze that is the Blogosphere. Have they been successful? This is something for you to investigate and make your own conclusions.

However, what is impressive about Global Voices, is their special programmes that they have established.

An Advocacy programme helps people speak out in places where their voices are censored online. This programme involves promoting a serious of tools and guides for speaking out in more repressive societies.

One such Guide is Blog for a Cause! It is divided into five sections:

1. Frequently asked questions about what blog advocacy is
2. The 5 key elements of any successful advocacy blog
3. The 4 steps to creating an advocacy blog
4. How to make your blog a vibrant community of active volunteers
5. Tips to help blog activists stay safe online

An Outreach programme called Rising Voices to enable help marginalized communities use citizen media to be heard.
Global Voices is also translated into more than a dozen languages by volunteer translators all over the world, who have formed the Lingua project.

Global Voices  seeks active involvement from supporting Bloggers.

The final word goes to the project organisers:

One of reasons we’re so excited about Global Voices is that it helps journalists find new voices to incorporate into stories. If you can help us reach out to journalists, it helps them find the folks we’re featuring on the site — and helps make the case that blogs are useful and often reliable sources of information.