With the help several people, I spend a lot of time collecting and updating my list of nonprofit blogs, which I publish on my Delicious list. Over the past months, this list grew to 549 blogs.
As quantity, but also quality is important, I use strict selection criteria:
- I only accept blogs, not mere websites
- The blogs have to be at least 3 months old, and have regular updates
- Blogs without updates for six months are deleted
- The subject has to revolve around the nonprofit sector: advocacy, fundraising, charity, development, aid, humanitarian relief…
I aggregate the latest posts via RSS feeds, and republish summaries of these blogs on The NonProfit Blogs and the NonProfit Blogs section of Humanitarian News. Both now collect a total of about 490 RSS feeds. The updates are automatically twittered via @nonprofitblogs.
As time went by, this must have become the largest single collection of nonprofit blogs you can find on the Web.
The reason why I collect these blogs:
- They give me, at a glance, an overview of what is going on in the nonprofit world
- Storing summaries of these blogs, gives me (and you) a searchable historic overview of what people write about in the nonprofit sector
- Going over the bloglist allows me to analyse statistics on the blogs, as I did in this post
- And most importantly, I collect them to learn from others: scanning through the list, and looking at the blogs, gives me a good impression what tools others use, what the common failures and successes are, the common pitfalls. It allows me to pick up basic lessons, as I described in this post on “blog real estate”.
I hope you find some inspiration for your own blog, using this nonprofit blogs list. Enjoy!
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Peter. Flemish, European, aid worker, blogger, expeditioner, sailor, traveller, husband, father, friend, nutcase. Not necessarily in that order. (
