Five Blogs We Love

As part of Blog Day 2008 we'd like to recommend five blogs or blogging projects we love to read. If you have found blogs that you love, but always forget to go back and read them, the easiest way is to subscribe to all of them through an application like Google Reader. See more about getting RSS feeds here.

#1. Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media by Beth Kanter. Each blog post is like a lesson in new media including links to useful resources, video clips, introductions to other social media mavens, advice, and how-to wisdom. Beth Kanter is involved in other blogs and projects such as NTEN's We Are Media Project: The Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits. Follow Beth Kanter on Twitter.

#2. Boston College's Alfred P. Sloan Work and Family Research Network Blog. Along with this network's website, the blog serves as an outlet for news, policy data, and evidence-based information and aims to be the "premier online destination for information about work and family." Recent topics include the new trend of compressed and flexible work weeks, work-life balance from a leader's perspective, paid sick leave, and career re-entry for military spouses. Useful for human resources practitioners, faculty, students, and workers!

#3. Global Voices Online is not a single blog but a media project where regional editors highlight blog posts from around the world—stories that are too often ignored by mega-media. Global Voices Online aims to "redress some of the inequities in media attention by leveraging the power of citizens' media." Read a handful of blog posts daily through its Roundups section, or longer posts in its Weblog section. Follow Global Voices Online on Twitter.

#4. Similarly, BlogHer is not a single blog, but a blogging community for women, 13,000 members strong. Search blogs by theme, or register your own. Follow BlogHer on Twitter.

#5. Max Gladwell. Blog posts are at the confluence of green issues (energy policy, global parching, and more) and ways people use social media. But don't be confused by the name: Max Gladwell isn't a person, but a collective of the people who engage with the blog in a wide range of ways, and founded by Rob Reed. (Read more about who Max Gladwell is here.) Follow Max Gladwell on Twitter.

Bonus Blog: #6! The New Service covers service corps programs, trends, and news, and is the newest blog from Idealist.org (co-authored by Idealist's Amy Potthast and Rich Melo of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory). Recent posts have included topics like the new AmeriCorps*VISTA Campus website, the Service Nation Summit, and an innovative new service program called the Conservation Corps of Greater New Orleans. Follow The New Service on Twitter.

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