When part of your job is to evangelize and spread the word, it’s important to understand what works. In the past four months, we’ve tweeted, blogged, had meet ups, and spoken at conferences to make sure people know about the Knight News Challenge.

Here’s a list of some of the data we uncovered—-according to Google Search, in 2007, there were 22 mentions in blogs of the phrase “Knight News Challenge'” in 2008, there are 122.  There have been 117,000 mentions of “Knight News Challenge” in 2008, according to Google Search. (Side note: KNC08 has almost 300 twitter followers.)

A list of some of the blogs and sites mentioning the News Challenge this month (thanks, everyone):

US organizationsTechSoup blog

• NetSquared blog
• Poynter blog
• OJR item
• Editor & Publisher Blog
• Society of Prof Journalists post
• Library Grants blog

Bloggers, US

• Heidi Miller, Talk it up: Austin Maker Faire and KNC
• Dave Winer, Scripting News, Knight News Challenge
• George Kelly, All About George
• David Cohn, digidave
•  Jack Lail , Random Mumblings
• Craig Newmark(founder of Craig’s List)
• JD Lasica, New Media Musings
• Amy Gahran, Knight Digital Media Center & Poynter
• debi (mobile) jones blog
• Dan Pacheco, Dan’s Diner

Europe & UK

• Editors Weblog
• Fergus Burns, Web 2.0 Ireland
• Glasglow Equality Networks forum (Scotland)

France

• Global Voices en francais

Asia

• Qoop (korea)

China

• Nice Words (China)

Russia

• Zubhov, Russia
• Global Voices Russia
• Russia Start up blog

Middle East

• Linux Packistan
• Ghosts of Midnight
•  Blonde 2.0 (Israel)
• In the line of wire (Arabic)
• Egyptian blog

Africa

• Global Voices Swahili

Canada

• Tris Hussey, Canada (Vancouver)
• Reportr.net (Canada)

Latin AmericaPablo Brenner, Brazil

• Idling Inc
• global voices en espanol
• Pasimento Agiles
• Grey SL
• Universio IT (Latin America)
• flash para peridicos

Remember, if you have a great idea that fits the guidelines, Knight is interested in seeing it.