· Weekly activist inspiration ·
- The tuna retailers league table 2008 (UK) - Greenpeace UK - I not only love this campaign, but I also love how it is presented!
- Liberation book club: speaking up - The Change Agency - "It can be challenging to speak up when people around us make oppressive comments or behave in oppressive ways - no matter how lofty our politics, or however much we purport to have anti-oppressive values. This can be even more complicated when we care for the people in question, or need to find ways to work with them productively."
- Blog Action Day will be on 15 October, focussing on Poverty
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Monday August 18, 2008
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· Weekly activist inspiration ·
- China's Olympic Games website hacked - The Color Orange.
- International Blog Against Racism Week - submissions listed on Delicious.
- The Sustainable Office Challenge - Interactive thingy on how you can make changes in your office to help save the planet (and save money).
- Collingwood housing estate gets wired - "“The Wired Community @ Collingwood initiative is the largest project of its kind in Australia. It delivers a free, donated and network-ready computer into every apartment on the estate - more than 900 homes." Sponsored by InfoXchange, Victorian and Federal governments and Microsoft Australia. The digital divide shrinks slightly :)
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Friday August 8, 2008
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· Weekly activist inspiration ·
- Introduction to Facebook Activism - Digiactive - "a quick introduction on how to use Facebook in your activism campaign and includes real-life examples of Facebook activism campaigns from Egypt, Burma, and Morocco".
- Australia 2020 does not haz teh internetz - Stilgherrian - "The 'governance' section of the Final Report of the Australia 2020 Summit mentions the Internet just twice seriously ... If this report represents what Kevin Rudd's 'best and brightest' understand, then Australia is well and truly fucked."
- Lessons from ALP's secret web weapon - The Australian
- Citizens’ views on Govt 2.0 - Network of Public Sector Communicators (NZ) - Notes on "...the first phase of a survey into Canadians views on their government’s use of Web 2.0 technologies".
- Remix America - "Remix America is all about combining the art of the remix with the great ideals of America. We’re multi-partisan and open to every opinion. We’re all about free expression via political remixes, mashups and video."
- Let our congress tweet - "Congressional rules should not prevent lawmakers from joining us in online conversations ... Congress should join us where we the people are talking, sharing and networking – online. As Congress reconsiders the restrictions placed on their Internet use, you can tell Congress to embrace the communication technologies that we already use."
- Liberation Book Club: Classism - The Change Agency - "Very few of the activist organisations I’ve come across talk about class – even those that explicitly seek to address economic and social inequity."
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Friday July 11, 2008
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· Weekly activist inspiration ·
- OpenAustralia - access Hansard easily, and keep track of what your federal pollie is up to in parliament via email.
- Integrating Social Media into a Web Content Strategy - Digital Web Magazine - "The primary goal of using social media has to be communication, not technology and not viral marketing." Sounds perfect for campaigning, then ;)
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Friday June 27, 2008
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· Weekly activist inspiration ·
- Online Politics 101 - e.politics - Colin Delany has released an updated version of his useful booklet
- Responsible shopper - Co-op America - Find out how ethical your favourite brands are, including Google
- Lords of the blog - an "experimental project to encourage direct dialogue between web users across the world and members of the House of Lords [in the UK]". Wow, imagine if our Senate did the same :)
- Winning Young Voters: new media tactics (PDF) - Rock The Vote - "New Media Tactics, the second in Rock the Vote's series of “Winning Young Voters” handbooks, shows you the basics of how to use new media – email, the Internet, social networks, and mobile phones – to register young voters and get them to the polls."
- Using Sprout to get your nonprofit's message out - NTEN - offers ideas to non-profits on using widgets (see presentation below)
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Friday June 20, 2008
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· Weekly activist inspiration ·
- DowningSt's YouTube Channel - "What do you want to ask the PM? Gordon Brown will respond to questions right here on YouTube." British citizens are encouraged to leave a 60-second video asking their PM a question. He will regularly respond to the most popular questions submitted by the YouTube community. Hat tip: Popgadget.
- Internet key to Obama victories - BBC.
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Friday June 6, 2008
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· Weekly activist inspiration ·
- The Big Ask - Friends of the Earth - Awesome way of getting people to take part in a petition to get plane emissions into the UK climate change law.
- Not so fast - Institute of Policy, Democracy and the Internet - Julie's article on web20 politics says "... we are so obsessed with jumping on the latest thing that we confuse tactics with strategy."
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Friday May 23, 2008
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· Weekly activist inspiration ·
- Stop bloody whaling - Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society - A very, very cool activist tool to raise awareness about whaling. Hat tip: IPDI.
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Friday May 16, 2008
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· Weekly activist inspiration ·
- User Labor - "With User Labor, we propose an open data structure, User Labor Markup Language (ULML), to outline the metrics of user participation in social web services."
- User-generated censorship - San Francisco Bay Guardian - "There's a new kind of censorship online, and it's coming from the grassroots. Thanks to new, collaborative, social media networks, it's easier than ever for people to get together and destroy freedom of expression."
There's also a couple of useful reports released recently:
- Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use by U.N. / Vodaphone. Hat tip: Mobile Active.
- Building National Campaigns - Activists, Alliances, and How Change Happens by Oxfam UK.
- The Oxfam report lead me to the Amnesty International Campaigning Manual.
- Social Networking: A quantitative and qualitative research report into attitudes, behaviours and use - Ofcom (Office of Communications in the UK). Hat tip: Giving in a digital world.
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Saturday May 3, 2008
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· Weekly activist inspiration ·
- Houses for the Homeless - Mission Australia & realestate.com.au - Fundraising website (donate per click) helps people with no fixed address. Organised by Mission Australia, funded by realestate.com.au.
- connect2earch - WWF - collecting the best ideas from around the country on climate change, to present to the IUCN World Conservation Congress in October.
- Add your photo to our Dove (campaign) gallery - Greenpeace UK - the basis of the idea is not a new one, but I like their suggestion to use Flickr's "send to a friend" link to email a protest photo to the CEO of Unilever/Dove.
- Held by Egyptian Authorities? Time to 'Tweet' - Washington Post - Is it just me or are there heaps of these "Twitter saved my ass" stories around, now? Imagine how much more organised the next S11-style gathering will be now that we have Twitter.
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Monday April 28, 2008
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