what do we write about?
Posted on | September 30, 2009 | No Comments
I had a really interesting discussion via class today about how many organizations grapple with how to make a blog interesting, relevant, and useful. I would argue that one service that NGOs can provide is a filter for, and perspective on, the day’s news. There’s an organization in my home town that works on conservation, partly by convincing landowners to will their land to trusts instead of selling them to for-profit companies. They can post every article from local papers about conservation issues and offer an interpretation of news for those who don’t necessarily have the background to understand all the implications of the story. Many NGOs already spend staff time screening the relevant news and understanding its implications for their work; the next step is to communicate that work to interested readers.
This seems to me a valuable and relevant service, and one that is likely to become more and more sought out as we decentralize the way we read the news.
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