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The "20blogs" awards are a recognition promoted

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for 6 years by the spanish digital news site "20 minutos.es"

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With the purpose of motivating the Hispanic bloggers' effort around the world.

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Mildred Largaespada is a Nicaraguan journalist and blogger

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who has stood out with her blog "1001 trópicos".

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She is the first Nicaraguan women nominated to

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the "20 blogs awards" .

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-Before anything, I am the mother of Diego and Marcela,

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that is my main work, and where all the activities I do cross.

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I am a journalist that is now a blogger -

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Mildred gave us an interview through Skype, from El Salvador,

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and reveled the influence that journalist

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Carlos Fernando Chamorro and the Doctor in Psycology,

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Amparo Madrigal had on her to get started in the world of blogs.

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- When they both told me, and persuaded me, "open the blog, open the blog"

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I said, ok, I will do what they say, and that was the way I started.

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For me, blogs are one of the most important tools

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that have emerged from the web, in the internet.

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The idea of auto communication, I think that

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empowers citizens to be able to tell what happens,

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and to tell what is happening with them.

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To be able to tell what they are thinking and their own reflections,

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without their message being interrupted by anyone.

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I think the blog has created a community,

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and I was thinking, let´s see how this community

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has an international presence. And the result is

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that I was accepted, they validated the blog.-

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Mildred highlights the intereaction with readers

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to produce her posts. But, she also has an advantage,

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since a young age, she has been traveling through Central America

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which allows her to be up to date with what is happening

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in the neighboring countries.

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- You can start a communication with people,

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and create a very rich debate.

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On the other side, that I have almost don't need to think

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about what I have to write, because readers

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ask me to write things. So it becomes really easy

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to have a thematic agenda in the blog.

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Nicaragua and El Salvador,

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are the countries where I keep more in touch with

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all the Twitter community, bloggers and

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with the digital media, talking about media and participating

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in social activities physically.

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During the interview with Conexiones, Mildred asserted that

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it is necessary that media become bloggers' allies.

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- Any person can take your blog, and reproduce it

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in their site, or in other blogs, or Facebook, or tweet it,

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and they just let you know, give you the credit.

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So, I have the blog and people take the articles from there.

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In this case, 20minutos has created this platform

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with the prizes, that generates an important blogger movement.

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Writing about art, politics and migration is her particular

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characteristic, however, when she writes about politics

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she is afraid about any repercussion from her readers.

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- It is uncomfortable for me to know that someone wants to hurt me,

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only because I don´t think like him.

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I try to express myself, within what I consider free expression

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to which I have the right to sue, and everybody has

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The blogger advices to whom is starting in the world of blogging

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to take care of their orthography, to publish constantly,

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and to promote their posts.

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- It is really important to make your blogs pretty,

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make them clean, not crowded. Why?

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so that reading it is easier.

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On february 9, 2012, 20minutos.es will announce

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the winners in the different categories.