DIN November 27, 2010
Please add "Blogging Positively": World AIDS Day Chat (Dec 2 ), Guide, and Projecton, to the agenda for the Dadamac UK-Nigeria team meeting on Wednesday. (more details in email below)
We should check with the team to see if there is anyone currently connected with the local HIV/AIDS work who is also interested in blogging. Until recently Cicely would have blogged of course, and before her Mercy would have done it. No-one comes to mind yet to fill that gap, but there may be someone willing that we do not yet know about.
It's short notice - the online event around blogging positively is Thursday December 2nd - The chat will start at 11am EST. How does that time relate to our First Thursday session on December 2nd at 10.00-11.00 Nigerian time? I would guess EST is at least 6 hours behind Nigerian time. If so, then by 11am EST the team in Nigeria will be heading home and not in range of the Internet anyhow.
But let's not make any assumptions and let's share the information in case any of the HIV/AIDS team want to follow up.
Pamela
From: Janet Feldman <kaippg@earthlink.net>
Date: 27 November 2010 07:29
Subject: [DIN] "Blogging Positively": World AIDS Day Chat (Dec 2 ), Guide, and Project
To: inclusion@forums.e-democracy.org
Dear Friends,
Please join us on December 2, 2010, for a chat about the "Blogging Positively" project and e-guide. The chat will start at 11am EST, and we enthusiastically welcome new participants, in addition to friends who have already joined the global conversation.
You can participate in the chat through the Cover-It-Live platform (http://www.coveritlive.com/), which will also archive the transcript.
To do so, please go to this url (the chat will start live-streaming from there at the scheduled time):
http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2010/11/18/live-chat-next-steps-for-the-blogging-positively-guide-on-december-2/
Background:
Two years ago, a World AIDS Day chat on the subject of citizen media and HIV/AIDS--sponsored by Rising Voices--revealed a strong interest in a guide on blogging about HIV/AIDS-related topics.
The e-guide, "Blogging Positively," was published last year, and can be downloaded at the following url: http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/guides. And for our map of people and groups who blog about HIV/AIDS, see http://is.gd/545x4.
Now that the "Blogging Positively" guide has launched, we want to find ways to make it as useful as possible. Suggestions include development of a curriculum that would accompany hands-on experience, expanding the guide to include other forms of citizen media ("blogging and beyond"), and other topics such as gender violence and HIV/AIDS, and linking it to other kinds of communication, such as art.
We have developed a list of possible "future scenarios", including:
* Collecting best practices and adding blogs to our growing map.
* Devising ways to involve people living in areas less Internet-accessible.
* Including more individuals and groups directly affected by HIV/AIDS, and empowering HIV+ bloggers.
* Organizing an international corps of local bloggers focused on HIV/AIDS.
* Creating advocacy campaigns and "crisis blogging" teams for global hot-spots.
* Implementing training programs on citizen media and HIV/AIDS.
* Storytelling by and about people affected by HIV/AIDS.
* Bolstering health education campaigns.
* Encouraging use of citizen media other than blogging and the Internet.
The December 2nd chat will focus on gathering feedback about the e-guide and project, creating a curriculum, and some of the topics listed above (as time permits). Hopefully you can join us!
DETAILS:
Blogging Positively Chat: December 2, 2010, 11am EST (USA)
The chat will begin at 11am EST (Boston-New York).
This is 2pm (Buenos Aires), 4pm (London), 6pm (Cape Town, Beirut), 7pm (Nairobi), 9:30pm (New Delhi), 12am (Dec 3) (Beijing, Manila), 1am (Tokyo), 3am (Sydney).
Janet Feldman (Author, Blogging Positively Guide) kaippg@earthlink.net
Eddie Avila (Director, Rising Voices) eduardo13@gmail.com
Serina Kalande (Blogging Positively project) serina.kalande@gmail.com
Janet Feldman
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About Janet Feldman: http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/5pBpCl4xVJ97bYt0k27KZ6
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