An article at Wired, Bloggers Opening Western Eyes, describes how interns at the Advocacy Project, a humanitarian NGO with projects in Bosnia, Nepal Lebanon, Kosovo, and elsewhere, have been keeping blogs from the field. “Humanitarian workers abroad use blogs to chronicle the lives of people in strife-torn societies, in the hope that the West will finally comprehend and respond.”
At the end of the article, Ross Mayfield of Socialtext, a company that makes social software, comments on why weblogs (and I would add, other forms of social software – collective publishing, community portals, boards, chats or member sites) are effective communication tools for nonprofits.
Another article from ZDNet, Weblogs help create a political hot spot, describes a seminar taking place today at the House of Commons in England. The seminar, titled “”Can Weblogs change politics?” is organized by VoxPolitics, an “online think-tank dedicated to investigating the impact of new technology on politics… It is the first time there has been a public debate about blogging in any national parliament.”
Voltaire Santos Miran EVP, Web Strategy I've developed and implemented communication strategies in education for more than 20 years now. I think my team at mStoner is the smartest, funniest, and coolest group of colleagues ever, and I can't imagine being anywhere else. Except Barcelona. Or Paris. Or Istanbul. To quote Isak Dinesen, "the cure for everything is salt ... tears, sweat, and the sea."