SMEX: Channeling Advocacy

Yesterday, as part of a train-the-trainer assessment, I gave a session about how to use Flickr + Creative Commons to find beautiful images available for remixing and reuse online. There are more than 200 million Creative Commons–licensed photos on Flickr, many of them not relevant to you, of course, but many of them beautiful (like the photo above of Beirut ... Read More »

We’re in the process of finalizing our second Facebook Pages guide for civil society and NGOs for the Arab region. We’re trying to find some successful Facebook Pages/Groups that tackle social, cultural, political, educational issues. Please check the Google form below and share your ideas: نحن بصدد الإنتهاء من الدليل الثاني لصفحات الفايسبوك للمنظمات و الجمعيات الغير حكومية في الدول ... Read More »

This month’s online dialogue at New Tactics in Human Rights is about fundraising for human rights. Here’s the lead-in: Protecting and promoting human rights is valuable and important work. In order to do this work, organizations need financial resources. Although there are many funders that recognize the value in financially supporting human rights efforts, many organizations struggle to find enough ... Read More »

Got an idea for extending the power of digital and social media to underrepresented voices in your community? Write it down and put together a small budget and send it off to to Rising Voices by February 3. Note that the project’s primary activities should be to provide citizen media training workshops to the target community, as well vital ongoing ... Read More »

بعد نشر مقالة الإنترنت ليس حقاً من حقوق الإنسان باللغة الإنكليزية في صفحة الآراء في النيويورك تايمز لفنت سيرف،  و نظراً لطرحها فكرة جوهرية عن الإنترنت، نضع بين أيديكم الترجمة العربية للمقال، بإنتظار تعليقاتكم و آرائكم عن الموضوع الوصول الى الإنترنت ليس حقّاً من حقوق الإنسان من شوارع تونس الى ساحة التحرير وما بعدها،  بُنيت المظاهرات حول العالم في العام ... Read More »