Rising Voices Posting Guide

If you have never written for Global Voices before, welcome!

Firstly, we suggest taking a look around this wiki (and the GV / RV websites) to get a sense of the way we work. Please read the Global Voices [Author Guidelines] and then take a look at the below section for specific information regarding Rising Voices.

If you have written for Global Voices in the past...

You will notice several differences between the two sites.

Focus: An article at RV always touches in some way on our specific focus of digital education and support for new online voices.

Length and time: There is no specific word limit on an RV article. We are less bound to news events than GV typically is, so you can take the time to research contextual issues or reach out to the people and projects to ask a few questions. This being said, you are also welcome to write a short post (check out this example), but we do not publish Quick Reads.

Social Media: Where Global Voices posts often require direct quotations from blogs and social media, Rising Voices does not. You are welcome to include quotations, but you are also welcome to write about a topic without direct quotes.

Images: As with GV, it is always very important to check the license of every image that you consider, and to indicate in the image's caption its source and copyright status. Please refresh your memory with a glance at the GV guide to posting multimedia.

Everything at RV, like at GV, is published under a creative commons license, meaning that your work may be republished elsewhere.

Publication

Please make sure of the following points before you click "submit for review":

• Did you run a spell check?
• Have you prepared a summary of your article and pasted it into the "Optional Excerpt" box?
• Have you checked the relevant categories?
• Have You Made Sure Your Headline is at Maximum 8-10 Words and Capitalized Appropriately?
• Are all your hyperlinks working (please check them in "preview" mode)?
• If you are linking to non-English language sources, have you included the appropriate tags (e.g. [zh], [es], [ar])?
• Have you explained any unusual/locally specific concepts or words for a global audience. If your post mentions public figures, past events or other terms that may not be familiar to the average reader, have you explained these in the text, or included an explanatory link (eg Wikipedia)?
• Have you made sure that you have the right to republish the included images, and inserted them appropriately (see above link to multimedia).

Yes? OK, submit for review!