Tech4Change: Giving voice to the experience of poverty and change

April 28, 2010 in Campaigns, Rants & Raves
Tags: ActionAid Australia, Australia, bloggers, Bloggers Unite, blogging, education, international, online activism, politics, poverty, poverty cycle, Project TOTO, social justice, social media, Tech4Change, technology

This piece in support of ActionAid Australia’s Project TOTO latest initiative Tech4Change Blog Day action. I’ve written a lot about technology and how it can be used for social and progressive change.

What kind of content?

April 19, 2010 in Rants & Raves
Tags: blog, blogging, content, feedback, issues, opinion, topics

I’ve been blogging for a long time about a wide range of things, mostly politics. (Okay it’s been nearly all politics.) I’ve provided my personal commentary on politics; on political parties; on environmental issues like climate change, logging and the Port Phillip Bay dredging; on human rights; about political and issue-based campaigning; live blogs covering elections and online campaigning. I blog about campaigns that I support or highlighted interesting new ways to engage people through social media and Internet technologies. I even blogged about sport.

Using picture sharing sites for activism

April 16, 2010 in Thoughts
Tags: activists, cyber activism, events, FaceBook, Flickr, online activism, online activists, online campaigning, photos, pictures, politics, rally, social media, social networking, Twitter, Web 2.0

One of the tools available to the online activist is the world of picture sharing sites. picture sharing sites are just that, sites where people upload and share their pictures with their friends; their family; the sites’ respective communities; and the rest of the world. There are loads of picture sharing websites with a range of functionalities.