Recent Posts in the ‘Multimedia and Social Networking’ Category

Quick and Easy Guide to Online Advocacy

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 by admin

quickneasy This guide, put together by Tactical Tech - an organization that works to advance the skills, tools and techniques of rights advocates, empowering them to utilize information and communications to help marginalized communities understand and affect progressive social, environmental and political change.

The guide offers ways to use social networking and web 2.0 tools to improve advocacy campaigns and aims to expose advocates to online services that are quick to use and easy to understand. It also provides descriptions of online services including social networking sites, image and video hosting services, and services that enhance an organizations web presence. Case studies, security concerns as well as the advantages and disadvantages of various web services are discussed, with the aim of improving advocates ability to conduct online advocacy campaigns. http://www.tacticaltech.org/onlineadvocacy

Cross-Posting on Different Social Networking Tools for Advocacy

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 by admin

social-networking-logos3The guide was put together by DigiActive, An organization dedicated to helping grassroots activists around the world use digitaltechnology to increase their impact. The guide is an introduction on posting content on multiple platforms by using Twitter, Twitterfeed, and Facebook to help organizations promote their cause.
http://www.digiactive.org/2008/06/13/resource-what-should-youtube-do-for-activists/

What Should YouTube Do for Activists?

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 by admin

Video of Oscar Grant Protest at Fruitvale BartA video put together by DigiActive, An organization dedicated to helping grassroots activists around the world use digitaltechnology to increase their impact. The video features an interview with Ramya Raghavan, the new Nonprofits and Activism Manager at YouTube.
http://www.digiactive.org/2008/06/13/resource-what-should-youtube-do-for-activists/

An Introduction to Twitter Activism

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 by admin

twtr-cover-194The guide was put together by DigiActive, An organization dedicated to helping grassroots activists around the world use digitaltechnology to increase their impact. Following the recent protests in Moldova (April 2009), the value of Twitter as a tool for digital activism is more prominent than ever.  Yet in addition to bringing greater awareness to that tool, the hype surrounding Moldova revealed misunderstanding of the value of of Twitter for activism and, even though the realists responded strongly, there was not a stand-alone resource which clearly defined how Twitter could be used by activists. Download the guide here: http://sergykalstudios.blogspot.com/2006/07/understanding-image-resolution.html

An Introduction to Facebook Activism

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 by admin

facebook2This guide was put together by DigiActive, An organization dedicated to helping grassroots activists around the world use digitaltechnology to increase their impact. It is 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.
http://www.digiactive.org/2008/06/28/guide-a-digiactive-introduction-to-facebook-activism/