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  1. NCVO and the Media Trust FREE Introductory Guide on How to Use New Media

    From: http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/campaigningeffectiveness/projects/index.asp?id=10362

    Social networking, mobile phones, blogging, wikis, other recent innovations are quickly being adopted by campaigners looking to maximise the impact of their campaigns, but where exactly do you start?

    NCVO and the Media Trust have produced a free introductory guide on how to use new media specifically designed for the voluntary sector, with explanations, advice and examples.

    Download the How to use new media guide from the Media Trust website.

    Campaigning and Consultation in the age of participatory media

    This report explores how new technologies are changing the way organisations consult and represent their stakeholders. It explains technological, political and social trends outlining future risks and opportunities and highlighting innovative use of ICT.

    Examples: Make Poverty History, Netmums and Crisis.

    Download ICT Foresight: Campaigning and consultation free report from the Media Trust website.

  2. What does it mean to be a poet in the internet age?

    (from my blog: artoffiction.blogspot.com)

    One of the things I like about America’s venerable “Poetry” magazine are the surprises that it throws in now and then - translation issues, for instance - and in this issue, a mini-magazine within the magazine addressing two “new movements” for the 21st century, Flarf & conceptual writing. It’s surely part of the role of a national poetry magazine to bring to a wider audience work from the margins.

    Having had more than one conversation recently about the lack of web-based writing that actually comes out of the possibilities of the medium, perhaps its not a surprise that Flarf is primarily concerned with that medium. Edited by Kenneth Goldsmith, he introduces the subject by saying that “our immersive digital environment demands new responses from writers. What does it mean to be a poet in the Internet age?” What indeed…

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