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January 23, 2006

The State of eCampaigning

Conferences | Friends & Allies

day 2 large group session

For those of us just returning from the eCampaigning Forum in Oxford last weekJoel Makower has written an interesting post on Web 2.0 applications and activism worth taking a look at. In his post, Joel posits:

As wikis, podcasts, blogs, and no doubt other techno-tools grow and flourish, they represent a new level of activism — one that promises to move beyond the limiting stovepiped agendas of individual environmental, social justice, and corporate accountability groups.

This reinforces a lot of what was discussed throughout the conference, and as we learned at the end of the day on Friday, is exactly what Greenpeace and a coalition of organizations campaigning against climate change are attempting to do with an open source Web 2.0 application they're developing codenamed Custard Melt.

It'll be interesting to see how things play out over the next few months :)

Posted by Rob at 07:51 PM