1. Posting on the CRRN web page:
Some guidelines
May 2011
Prepared by the Management team
Alessandro Alasia (Network coordinator), Geri Biggs, Jeff
Dixon, Jean-François Frenette, David Hardie, Leanne
Elliott, Patricia Macklin, Erin McGuigan, Molly Moshofsky,
Karin Trounce, and Deatra Walsh.
The Canadian Rural Research Network (CRRN) supports information sharing
and knowledge dissemination among rural research stakeholders by means of
innovative networking approaches.
www.rural-research-network.blogspot.com

2. Background
Each partner organization of the Canadian Rural Research Network (CRRN) can
post content on the CRRN blog concerning its research outputs, activities or
other research material. This document presents simple guidelines for posting
using Blogger.
Guidelines for posting reflect the mandate and objectives of CRRN: share current
research related information with a broad audience.
Contents of a post
Posts are intended to be about research related material, this includes any
research output or announcement that is normally already available to the public
and is of interest to a broad (potentially national) audience.
Ideally, these items should follow in one (or more) of the broad “posting
categories” indicated on the CRRN web page (report, presentation, video, study,
call for papers, research related event, etc.). Others could be added if users
identify this need.
Note: for some specific categories (such as online news, academic publications,
Calendar, videos), CRRN has developed specific posting procedures and you
should contact the person responsible for this area to add the info to the
appropriate sections:
• News scan (online news concerning rural):
• Academic scan (academic journal publication on rural Canada)
• Calendar of events
Posts are intended to be about current material. CRRN’s focus is to keep users
informed on “what is new”; hence; posting should be only for current, recent
material. At this stage, the CRRN site is does not have adequate archival
capacity.
Posts are for existing research output/information in the public domain and the
post should have a link to the full documentation material (i.e., the web site of
your organization with the full report, video, study etc). The CRRN web site is not
intended for direct publication of original research material. In other words,
CRRN is about sharing content and not creating content.
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3. Three guidelines for posting
There are three simple guidelines that should be followed when posting an item.
1. The title should be a maximum of two lines, i.e., approximately 100
characters (including space). Note that the title length is limited by default
(hence a long title will be automatically cut), however, it would be better if
the user could keep the title within the two lines.
2. The summary that appears on the main page (before the “Read more/Lire
la suite”) should be a maximum of three lines, that is approximately 260
characters including spaces (the following “How to” sections explains how
to do this)
3. The remainder of the post (the one that appears by clicking on “...Read
more/Lire la suite”) can be as long as you like.
Labels. You can select a maximum of five labels for the post (the following
section explain how to do this). This is a default. It is recommended that you
choose at least one label from the “post category” list and one from the “subject”
list. You can also select labels for the geographic area.
Important note: you can add labels that are not listed on the CRRN page,
however, these will not appear on the side bar, hence this will have no effect on
the “searchability” of your post. Labels could be added to the list if users feel that
this is important. The current list is an attempt to find a balance between the
length of the list and its purpose, which is that of identifying broad topic. For
searching purposes the most effective strategy is to include your “key terms” in
the full post (i.e. the text that appears when you click on “Read more/Lire la
suite”). This will ensure that your post will appear once users do a search for their
specific subject of interest.
Posting about conferences/events. It is suggested to have maximum three
posts for this category:
- One post for: Call for papers
- One post for: Announcement of the event
- One post for: possible outputs of the event (Presentations/video/reports)
Important note: This short guideline does not and cannot cover all possible
issues. As the system grows and more questions arise we will add ways to
address them to this document.
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4. www.rural-research-network.blogspot.com
The Canadian Rural Research Network (CRRN)
supports information sharing and knowledge dissemination among rural research
stakeholders by means of innovative networking approaches.
The CRRN embraces the principles of participatory, bottom-up networking and the
opportunities offered by online networking applications.
The CRRN resources are freely available to all users. The resources to operate the
Partners network are provided by the voluntary work of a management team and the
partner organizations or limited in-kind contributions for specific activities. CRRN
Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities,
University of Alberta Augustana Campus; Alberta
does not provide nor seek funding for research.
Rural Development Network; Atlantic RURAL Centre;
BC Regional Innovation Chair in Tourism and
Sustainable Rural Development, Vancouver Island
University; Canadian Alliance for Community
Service-Learning; Canadian Community Economic Stay connected
Development Network | Réseau canadien de
développement économique communautaire;
Canadian Model Forest Network | Réseau Canadien
de Forêts Modèles; Canadian Rural Health Research
Society - CRHRS; Canadian Rural Revitalization
Receive daily posts via any CRRN media on calls for papers, an-
Foundation - CRRF; Centre for Innovative and nouncements, events, data, e-books, studies, reports, policies, funding opportu-
Entrepreneurial Leadership - CIEL; Centre for Rural
and Northern Health Research, Laurentian nities, positions, presentations, webinars, videos, training, news and much more.
University; Chaire Desjardins en développement des
petites collectivités, Université du Québec en Abitibi-
Témiscamingue; Coastal Communities Network,
Nova Scotia; Community Development Institute, Receive bi-monthly updates by email, which summarize the
University of Northern British Columbia; Department
of Rural Economy, University of Alberta; information posted on the CRRN web page over the previous two months. Sub-
Développement régional, social et territorial,
Université du Québec à Rimouski; Faculty of
scribe at: subscribe.crrn@gmail.com
Forestry and Environmental Management, University
Share your content related to research issues (publications, events,
of New Brunswick; Forests and Communities in
Transition, University of British Columbia; Groupe de
recherche sur la migration ville/campagne et les
néo-ruraux (INRS); Harris Centre, Memorial data, funding, positions, webinars, etc). Email to: crrn@bell.net
University; Region Innovation Chair, Selkirk College;
Rural Communities Foundation, Nova Scotia; Rural
Development Institute, Brandon University; Rural
Development Network (RDN) | Réseau pour le Participate in the discussions and get feedback from the com-
développement rural (RDR), Government of Canada
| Gouvernement du Canada; Rural Ontario Institute
munity of users on topics that are relevant to you, via CRRN social media.
- ROI; Rural Planning and Development, University of
Share Opinions and Lessons learned,
Guelph; Rural Research Centre, Nova Scotia
Agricultural College; Rural Secretariat | Secrétariat two new initiatives of
rural, Government of Canada | Gouvernement du
Canada; Rural Women Making Change, University of the CRRN meant to stimulate debate and knowledge mobilization.
Guelph; The Monieson Centre, Queen's University;
The Rural and Small Town Programme, Mount
Allison University;
Outaouais.
Université du Québec en
Keep up-to-date with the calendar of events, NewsScan, videos on
RuralTube, and more.
Contact Join the network and be part of one the most innovative
Email: crrn@bell.net information sharing and knowledge dissemination platforms.
See full contact list on the
CRRN web page
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Last Modified: April 29, 2011