- Become a contributing author
- Help us figure out what we should be linking to
- Help us translate
- Help us combat internet censorship
- Leave us comments!
- Mention Global Voices when talking to the press
Put a badge on your blog
Put customized GV news feeds on your site
Global Bloggers, let your voices be heard! Join the global conversation. Help people around the world find about about your blog, podcasts, and other online creations. Raise global awareness about what bloggers in your country and region are talking about. Here are some of the ways you can get involved in Global Voices:
1. Help us cover the global conversation by becoming a contributing author
Are you interested in becoming part of the Global Voices team? Are you passionate about blogging, podcasting, and citizen media? Do you blog from or about a region or country that is ignored by traditional media? Do you follow the “conversation” in the blogosphere in your own country or some other country you know well?
Global Voices depends on its team of incredible volunteer authors to report on the daily conversations occurring in blogging communities around the world. If you would like to help us improve that coverage, please contact the appropriate regional editor for details about how to contribute articles summarizing the activity from your country's blogosphere.
** Check our author vacancies page for a list of countries where we are actively seeking authors.
2. Help us figure out what we should be linking to
Every weekday, Global Voices offers links to blogs, podcasts, photos and video from around the world in our Global Links section. Our editors select these links from the hundreds of blogs from their respective regions that they monitor each day. Our authors, in turn, summarize and provide context for huge volumes of material in the articles they write for the Weblog section.
As you can imagine, covering the global blogosphere is no easy task. To make sure we don't miss blog posts you think are important, please send us the links! Drop any of our editors a line either through the Contact link in the navigation bar or by e-mailing them directly. In your message, be sure to include the blog's URL (web address) and a sentence or two stating where the blogger is writing from, and why you think it’s worth linking to.
One of the major limitations of the Global Voices is the inability of our community members to read every world language. To follow conversations in parts of the blogosphere where we don’t speak the language, we rely on contributors like J. Nambiza Tungaraza, who translates posts from Swahili to English to help us understand what’s going on in East Africa. If you’re interested in helping us understand your corner of the globe better, please consider doing the following:
- Start publishing a roundup of your own country, region, or community's blogosphere on your own blog, and translating posts into English
- Let us know about it, so the editor who covers your region can include it in his or her aggregator and link to it when appropriate
- Volunteer to represent your country's blogosphere on Global Voices by writing regular feature posts
- Or, become a volunteer translator as part of our Lingua project, which translates GV content into a dozen different languages including French, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese and Bangla. If you are interested in helping translate our material into any of those languages, or in starting such a community for your own language, please contact the LINGUA's coordinator, Alice Backer, francophonia AT globalvoicesonline DOT org.
We’re also grateful for help in translating key documents like the Global Voices Manifesto, which contributors have already translated into ten languages.
4. Help us combat internet censorship
Global Voices Advocacy combats censorship and promotes free speech initiatives across the web, acting as a hub for campaigning groups from across the globe.
If you're already part of such an initiative, would like to join us or learn more, please contact our Advocacy Coordinator via the Contact link.
Commenting on our posts are one of the best ways to participate in the Global Voices discussion, because they allow everyone in the community to hear your views and respond to them.
When you blog about stories you’ve seen on Global Voices, please also consider using trackbacks or linking directly to us, so we can see what you’re saying!
6. Mention Global Voices when talking to the press
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.
Bloggers around the world — please link to Global Voices!
Add a Global Voices badge to your blog. Feel free to copy and paste the code below…then scroll down to find out more ways to get involved!
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