Global Voices Advocacy has released another guide in its Advocacy 2.0 series called "Cross-Posting" writting by Sami Ben Gbarbia.
This one offers a brief introduction to how to use cross-posting for online advocacy campaign. It reviews different web 2.0 tools, highlights successful examples where cross-posting has been used for advocacy. The guide also includes the pros and cons of the cross-posting technique.
The guide highlights how to use RSS tools like Twitter Feed and Feedburner to automatically post content from your blog and other sources to Twitter and Facebook. You may wonder why do this? The guide explains why:
For some digital activists from countries with widespread Internet censorship use this tactic to automatically keep their audience updated about new "mirrors" to their blocked/censored website and blogs. So, instead of spending time sending emails and filling their subscribers' mailboxes with email updates, applications like Facebook, Twitter are doing the job of displaying the new URLs to their website, bypassing censors
and getting the message out.
and getting the message out.
Hello, i newbie, anybody can help me?
Posted by: mertooteofake | October 31, 2008 at 05:26 AM
I am here at a forum newcomer. Until I read and deal with the forum.
Let's learn!
Posted by: Acoumemacoedy | December 02, 2008 at 02:22 PM