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Why Social Media Is Important to Civil Society
email discuss Posted by Micael Bogar on Jul 10, 2009 at 11:27 AM
We really enjoyed Suw Charman-Anderson’s recent blog on Corante, Why Social Media Is Important to Civil Society. In it she uses our white paper Public Media 2.0:Dynamic Engaged Publics to look at how the emerging participatory media trend affects civil society. Anderson says, “Civil society associations, by using social tools, can extend the reach of their web presence and the strength of their network, and form direct relationships with the individuals in their constituency. Social tools can also provide website visitors with something immediate to do, even if it is a small action.”
Anderson also discusses newly forming trust issues that come along with this change and the general challenge of using technology to organize. It looks like this blog is just a small part of a larger paper Suw is working on. We can’t wait to see more! Read the blog here
Discussion
Your Social Media 2.0 Paper is seriously fantastic! What’s great is that its emphasis on dynamic engaged publics underscores the need to develop services and use in a way that encourages collaboration. This way people can make the most of the rich resource of distributed human activism and creativity and bring about transformational change. Please push on this though, because there’s so much excitement just now in the space of social tech for social change that the value of networking networks or creating opportunities for people to migrate between networks can get missed. I am trying to address this in my own small way in a digitial initiative that is just beginning in Cardiff, Wales, called Digital Butetown. http://bit.ly/TTixQ