Young Caucasus Women Project
08:18, 23 February 2006
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It has been my pleasure this week to be an online volunteer blog mentor for the Young Caucasus Women Project. Recruited from current Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program students, young women from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia currently living in the USA are being trained in citizen journalism, and part of the training includes learning to publish their own blogs. Once they learned the basics of blogging, then the student's own blogging bagan. Now, at the start of the week, an online volunteer mentor posts a suggestion for the week's blog topic, and each student posts a blog of her own on that topic, as well as comments on each other's blogs. The students may post on other topics throughout the week as well. This continues until the student leaves the USA. After the students return to their home countries, they will receive a monthly blog assignment, but they may post to their blogs as often as they like. The volunteer mentors are experienced adult bloggers from around the world, with a particular focus on bloggers from developing countries who are having an impact on the dissemination of news from their countries. I'll be writing about my own experience as a volunteer in the coming weeks.
