Babelblogs

Thursday, May 3 2007

Online support for bloggers

By Simon on Thursday, May 3 2007, 12:56

Running a blog is simple, but it's not necessarily easy at first sight ... To help you get your blog started there are several tools :

http://doc.dotclear.net/2.0/usage

That's the documentation of the blog plateform. Unfortunately, it's in French, but it will provide your with useful tips to get started. An English version is under translation.
Then, please visit this page as well (you have to register with your login & pw to access to it):

http://wiki.cafebabel.com/index.php?title=Accueil

There are important tips about getting started, running a multilingual blog, and cafebabel.com tags.

Finally, if you have the smallest, tiniest, question, please do not hesitate to use this site :

http://flyspray.cafebabel.com

You have to login as well. It's a live "Frequently asked questions" tool.
You'll see all the questions that have been asked, and see the answer that has been given... If you don't find your answer, and that you haven't found it the documentation, the wiki, or elsewhere, and then click on "Add a new task"... Fill in the summary & and details (leave the rest as it is) with your question... And come back a few hours later to see the answer (and all users will share the benefits of your question, so don't be shy.

Any doubt, remark ? Please comment.

Monday, April 30 2007

Blogs Launched !

By Simon on Monday, April 30 2007, 16:24

It's about time...

If you have applied for a blog, it's time to launch it !

Please get in touch with Nuala (info[at]cafebabel.com) to start publishing !

We'll update the list as it grows !

Soon coming, a subhomepage dedicated to the blogs, with an access from cafebabel.com homepage !

Monday, April 23 2007

List of babelblogs

By Simon on Monday, April 23 2007, 13:59

Here's the list of the first babelblogs, update on may 14th :

http://belarus.cafebabel.com

http://budapest.cafebabel.com

http://paris.cafebabel.com

http://europa-auf-deutsch.cafebabel.com

http://eurotopia.cafebabel.com

http://tallinn.cafebabel.com

http://leblogduneufmai.cafebabel.com

http://coffeefactory.cafebabel.com

http://cochonpolitikon.cafebabel.com

http://bruxelles.cafebabel.com

http://traduttoritaliani.cafebabel.com

http://strasbourg.cafebabel.com

http://eurotik.cafebabel.com

http://linea.cafebabel.com

http://streetsofeurope.cafebabel.com

http://chrisblogs.cafebabel.com

http://kaczynski.cafebabel.com

http://spaceuropeans.cafebabel.com

http://amsterdam.cafebabel.com

http://stockholm.cafebabel.com

http://gatonegro.cafebabel.com

http://islamineuropa.cafebabel.com

http://vilnius.cafebabel.com

http://europefrombelow.cafebabel.com

http://city.cafebabel.com

http://bucharest.cafebabel.com

http://imagineeurope.cafebabel.com

These blogs were launched to test the platform.

For all of you who are expecting a blog (local offices, translators, images, thematic blogs, etc..), we'll now wait for around a week, to get the "profile" of the community, and to automatise the creation of the blogs, and write some documentation...

Basically, you can start writing your posts, because within a week, you'll be starting to post...

Thursday, April 19 2007

Testing babelblogs !

By Simon on Thursday, April 19 2007, 11:22

Testing is undergoing on babelblogs !

If you want to have a first glance look at these two tests :

Brussels local office blog

Le blog du neuf mai

It's just a start... More changes to come soon.

If you want to participate in testing (and you already have applied for a blog, let us know...)

Thursday, March 8 2007

Comment the Local team blog guidelines

By n.morgan on Thursday, March 8 2007, 19:59

Each local team of cafebabel.com currently has a local page to present its members, its activities, partners, etc: http://cafebabel.com/en/infos/networks.asp

We all know the limits of this page, it's not so visible, the url is long and clumsy, the tool is not very adaptable...etc

So the local blogs that you have been talking about and waiting for are now finally on their way!

cityname.cafebabel.com

we'll soon have a visual for you of the blog design, but at the same time we need to crack on with agreeing on what the local blogs are actually for, and what content will be in them.
The 'euroboard' of cafebabel.com has been asked to comment on the local blog guidelines that we proposed. I've integrated the comments to the attached blog guidelines.
Some questions remain:

local blogs will be updated regularly, and easily, as every local team member will have access to the blog. No need to pass by 'Paris' to upload a photo! What kind of rythym do you imagine your blog will have? Do you forsee any problems with keeping it updated?

How can we ensure that the local blog network remains, well, a network and not a grouping of individual cities?
How will you manage the mix of 'editorial' content and 'communication' content?

Let's continue the discussion here on coffee factory!

All other comments on blogs can be sent to blog@cafebabel.com

Wednesday, February 28 2007

New feature : cafebabel.com will soon have blogs!

By Simon on Wednesday, February 28 2007, 18:22

The first step a of the community will be the launch of blogs on cafebabel.com

Individuals will be able to have a their own transnatational multilingual blog. As we are not a blog platform though, not everyone will be able to have a blog.

Babelians will have to follow some rules to start up their blogs. We'de like to know what you think of these guidelines (attached to this post as well) to create a blog on cafebabel.com.

Please make comments...