blogging

Thanks to Brenda for the nice welcome earlier today! As she mentioned in her post, I'll be hanging out a bit in these parts -- lurking behind doorways, butting in to virtual conversations, and blogging -- all in the interest of learning more about what libraries need from us and hoping to share info about other TechSoup programs that might be useful to the library world.

Starting today, there will be a new voice regularly heard here on the TechSoup for Libraries blog. Becky Wiegand is a staff writer with TechSoup, where she writes and edits articles, manages the TechSoup Blog team, and presents for area nonprofits about technology needs.

If you’re interested in learning what Internet access and Web 2.0 technologies can do in terms of education and empowerment at the global level, take a look at Rising Voices. Rising Voices is an outreach project funded by the Knight Foundation that awards micro-grants to social media training initiatives and citizen journalism projects in underrepresented parts of the world. Their grants are supporting local efforts that teach people how to tell their stories digitally through blogs, podcasts, video blogs and other tools.