Volunteer Management guru Nan Hawthorne recently started a Volunteer Resources Management Clearinghouse blog.  In a January 11th post she included a link to an article by Joan Perry from CharityChannel's Volunteer Management Review entitled, "Blogging.  A Primer for Volunteer Program Managers."

Personal blogs: The majority of blogs are personal journals. Discussing work and volunteerism on a personal blog promotes our field in general.

Professional Blogs: An example is the Jayne Blog maintained by Jane Craven posting entries of interest to mission-based organizations: nonprofits, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society and public sector agencies. The CharityChannel CharityNews, although without a comment option, serves the function of a regularly updated web log.

Peer to peer: Nurses at Mediblogopathy have a directory linking medical related blogs together. A site like this could be helpful to Volunteer Managers.

Webring: A WebRing is a circle of topic related blogs. Each then directs you to the next site with a simple click. Webrings must be managed to make sure all links are active.

Carnival : A Volunteering Carnival patterned after the popular Carnival of Recipes Carnival of Recipes would invite bloggers to submit related entries related to volunteer issues with blog managers taking turns hosting the carnivals. This would invite participation by personal bloggers who may have entered a volunteer related topic.

Blogathon : An annual Blogathon operates like the old walkathon and bloggers register, choose a charity, solicit sponsors and post an entry every thirty minutes for 24 hours. In the 2005 event 216 participants and 1883 sponsors pledged $58146.97.

Community of Volunteers: The World Volunteer Web: WorldVolunteerWeb is an exciting effort in international blogging related to volunteerism. There were sudden examples of volunteer related web logs after recent disasters coordinating volunteer activities. These may be short lived but the most important blogs where volunteer coordinating is done live online with instant feedback and brainstorming.