Training Materials We Love

From Digitally-Empowered Activists Conference Wiki

The goal of our conference is to:

1. identify content for new digital advocacy training materials on digital video, mash-ups, blogs, SMS, and/or social networks and
2. create outlines for these new materials (storyboard for a video, bullet-points for a guide, etc), which will be created following the conference.

It's really important to us that we don't reinvent the wheel. We know that there are great training materials for these technologies already out there and we want to be aware of these tools before we start making new ones. Please take a moment to help us populate this wiki page with your favorite digital advocacy training materials.

Video Advocacy Training Materials

1. Video for Change Training Guide (Witness, 2005)
2. NGO-in-a-box Audio/Video edition available in English and Portugese. Video Advocacy additions to are planned for the Citizen Journalism Toolkit by Tactical Tech and with partners, Witness and Global Voices (due 2008)
3. How to copy files from camera to computer by Beth Kanter
4. How To Edit Your Movie in Windows Movie Maker by Beth Kanter
5. Creating multilingual subtitles for videos: How to Transcribe on dotSUB , How to Translate on dotSUB by Rising Voices

Mash-up Training Materials

1. your recommendation here
2. Hacking Google Maps: Building a Community Site by Martin C. Brown (ExtremeTech Nov 16, 2006)
3. How to build a Maps Mash up Yahoo! Maps tutorial using PHP and JavaScript by Dan Theurer.
4. Video Tutorial ASP.NET Mashups A mashup application that uses ASP.NET AJAX bridging files to access the Flickr and Amazon services, and combines the results in a single user interface. Presented by Joe Stagner

Blog Advocacy Training Materials

1. The Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents (Reporters Without Borders, 2005), Note: also available in Chinese, Farsi, Arabic, Russian, and French
2. The Election Blogging Guide (Demologue.com, 2006)
3. Blog for a Cause!: The Global Voices Guide to Blog Advocacy by Global Voices Advocacy
4. Anonymous Blogging with WordPress and Tor (Global Voices Advocacy)
5. NGO-in-a-box Open Publishing edition by Tactical Tech and Creative Commons.
6. Citizen Journalism Toolkit by Tactical Tech due for release April 2008.
   
7. An Introductory Guide to Global Citizen Media by Rising Voices, also available in spanish and Bangla
8. YouTube tutorial on setting up a WordPress blog
9. How to create a videoblog by Freevlog
10. How to read a lot of blogs: A rss feed reader (Google reader) tutorial by Capture the conversation
11. Podcasting tool- Audacity:Intro to Audacity,Audacity image manual, FLOSS Manual for Audacity

Social Network Advocacy Training Materials

1. your recommendation here
2. How to do a blog?: Bligoo (Bligoo)
3. Online Advocacy Quick'n'Easy Guide first slim version now online by Tactical Tech, full version due for release April 2008.
4. Use Facebook to Promote Your Cause by IssueMarketing.com

Mobile Advocacy Training Materials

1. Strategy Guide #1: Using Mobile Phones in Electoral and Voter Registration Campaigns (MobileActive, 2007), Notes: also available in Arabic
2. Strategy Guide #2: Using Mobile Phones in Advocacy Campaigns (MobileActive, 2007), Notes: also available in Arabic
3. Strategy Guide #3: Mobile Phones in Fundraising Campaigns (MobileActive, 2007), Notes: also available in Arabic
4. Strategy Guide #4: ¡Acción Móvil¡ Guía de Móvil Activismo para Latino América (MobileActive, 2007)
5. Mobile Advocacy Toolkit by Tactical Tech in collaboration with Fahamu, due for release April 2008.

Other Digital Advocacy Training Materials

1. Visualising Advocacy, Using Information Design for Advocacy by John Emerson and Tactical Tech print and online version due for release February 2008.
2. Geo-spatial Mapping for Advocacy Quick'n'Easy Guide by Tactical Tech, first version due for release February 2008.
3. The Info-Activists Handbook by Tactical Tech, handbook of tactics and blueprints, forthcoming 2008 in conjunction with Tactical Tech's Info-Activist Camp 2008.
4. Guide to Action (TakingITGlobal)
5. ICT Basics11 Curriculum 1 (basic) English (17.9MB) (TakingITGlobal)
6. ICT and LeadershipCurriculum 2 (leadership) English (2.4MB) (TakingITGlobal)
7. ICT and Entrepreneurship Curriculum 3 (entrepreneurship) English (7.9MB) (TakingITGlobal)
8. Our Space: Online Civic Engagement Tools for Youth [1] (TakingITGlobal)