Throw away is definitely the wrong word and idea for this! 🙂
I started an idea similar to this at the Labor Notes conference in Detroit last month.
What is needed, is the activist communities to be in the same communities as each other. This can be accomplished using weblogs and linking them up like wikis. You do this using RSS feed technology (easy) and Change Aggregators to create a Recent Changes page.
We make our own news and decide who we want to get news from!
The current use of this idea is for the workers support group Borders Readers United: http://bordersreadersunited.2ya.com (and I would like to talk with you more about how to broaden this effort)
Fantastic! Best, Mark http://markdilley.2ya.com
I can fully endorse everything Eric says having just completed my stint running Napo’s AGM Weblog. My IT skills are limited (!) but it is truly simple to maintain and an effective way to communicate directly with members.
Had plenty of positive comment from members; the log has enabled those not able to attend to become ‘virtual’ delegates.
Many thanks to Eric who has helped us make a big leap into the 21st century!
Jonathan
Here’s a link to Oskar’s original blog posting that first introduced me to this concept:
http://www.w3os.nl/logos/permalink.php?id=P231_0_1_0_C
Throw away is definitely the wrong word and idea for this! 🙂
I started an idea similar to this at the Labor Notes conference in Detroit last month.
What is needed, is the activist communities to be in the same communities as each other. This can be accomplished using weblogs and linking them up like wikis. You do this using RSS feed technology (easy) and Change Aggregators to create a Recent Changes page.
We make our own news and decide who we want to get news from!
The current use of this idea is for the workers support group Borders Readers United: http://bordersreadersunited.2ya.com (and I would like to talk with you more about how to broaden this effort)
Fantastic! Best, Mark
http://markdilley.2ya.com
I can fully endorse everything Eric says having just completed my stint running Napo’s AGM Weblog. My IT skills are limited (!) but it is truly simple to maintain and an effective way to communicate directly with members.
Had plenty of positive comment from members; the log has enabled those not able to attend to become ‘virtual’ delegates.
Many thanks to Eric who has helped us make a big leap into the 21st century!
Jonathan