DIY Communications Toolkit
I admit it, I am a geek, if you could not already tell from the last few posts to the blog. Matthew often has to reign me in when I geek out too much. But today a new resource came across my desk that not only spoke to the geek in me but also to the committed supporter of advocates around the world. Hat tip to Serhiy Danylenko in Kiev for pointing me to this.
The team at Tactical Tech has put together a new online resource called the DIY Communications Toolkit . This is a great new addition to the Security, Publishing, Audio/Visual Toolboxes.
(from the website) The DIY Communications toolkit from Tactical Tech offers a collection of tried and tested, accessible free and open source tools. The toolkit is designed for small and medium-sized NGOs, advocates, and citizen journalists to help them create and distribute content for their advocacy efforts while exploring the constantly evolving world of campaigning and communications.It contains a series of how-to’s, hands-on-guides and tutorials that walk you through the processes of creating and distributing content for awareness raising and online activism.
The site does a good job of explaining both the online and offline uses of the tools, how they can contribute to the strategic communications of a campaign, what the considerations are in terms of time, staff, financial and other resources to actually implement the tools in their work.
How do we get this into the hands of advocates? Who rolls it out? Who uses it as a training resource and provides hands on assistance as groups try to incorporate the tools into their work? How easily can we get this into other languages?
Tags: citizenjournalism, tacticaltech, toolkit