به کمک تُر و وردپرس، ناشناس وبلاگ بنویسید

The Anonymous Blogging with Wordpress and Tor guide is now available in Persian thanks to this translation by an Iranian blogger and friend who wants to remain anonymous.

The guide outlines several methods of protecting one’s identity in order to avoid retaliation and can considerably reduce the risks that a blogger’s identity will be linked to his or her online writings through technical means.

به کمک تُر و وردپرس، ناشناس وبلاگ بنویسید is availble for download as a PDF file. You may need to install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it. If you experience difficulties viewing PDF format online, try this linkable and blogging-friendly HTML version.

Please download the guide and help disseminate this important information. Feel free as well to help us translating the guide into your own language.

The guide is also available in the following languages:

English
French
Portuguese
Arabic
Chinese
Italian

For further information please contact us at: advocacy [ at ] globalvoicesonline [ dot ] org

به کمک تُر و وردپرس، ناشناس وبلاگ بنویسید

Blog Anonimo con Wordpress e Tor

The Anonymous Blogging with Wordpress and Tor guide is now available in Italian thanks to this translation by Jan Reister from Nazione Indiana blog.

The guide outlines several methods of protecting one’s identity in order to avoid retaliation and can considerably reduce the risks that a blogger’s identity will be linked to his or her online writings through technical means.

Scrivere un blog anonimo con Wordpress e Tor is availble for download as a PDF file. You may need to install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it. If you experience difficulties viewing PDF format online, try this linkable and blogging-friendly HTML version.

Please download the guide and help disseminate this important information. Feel free as well to help us translating the guide into your own language.

The guide is also available in the following languages:

• English
• French
• Portuguese
• Arabic
• Chinese

For further information please contact us at: advocacy [ at ] globalvoicesonline [ dot ] org

Blog Anonimo con Wordpress e Tor

The guide outlines several methods of protecting one’s identity in order to avoid retaliation and can considerably reduce the risks that a blogger’s identity will be linked to his or her online writings through technical means.

“التدوين باسم مجهول مع ووردبرس و تور” is availble for download as a PDF file. You may need to install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it. If you experience difficulties viewing PDF format online, try this linkable and blogging-friendly HTML version.

Please download the guide and help disseminate this important information. Feel free as well to help us translating the guide into your own language.

For further information please contact us at: advocacy [ at ] globalvoicesonline [ dot ] org

التدوين باسم مجهول مع ووردبرس و تور

Cross-posting for Advocacy in Arabic

We are pleased to announce that the Advocacy 2.0 Guide: Cross-posting for Advocacy, An Introduction to Effective Social Media Integration, is now available in Arabic thanks to this translation by Reine Mattar from Social Media Exchange, Beirut.

The Social Media Exchange provides training and consulting to civil society and nonprofit organizations in Lebanon who seek to use media to advance their missions.

The guide offers us a brief introduction to how to use cross-posting for online advocacy campaign. It reviews different web 2.0 tools, showcasing successful examples where cross-posting has been used for advocacy. The guide also includes the pros and cons of the cross-posting technique.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• What do you need?
• How to feed your blog or website to Twitter?
• Update your Facebook Status via Twitter
• FeedBlitz takes it a step further by automating email and IM delivery
• Some arguments against the use of the cross-posting
• A good example on how to use the cross-posting technique

دليل النشر المتبادل is available for download as a PDF file. You may need to install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it.

Please download and help us translating the guide in your language.

For further information please contact Global Voices Advocacy Coordinator Sami Ben Gharbia at advocacy [ at ] globalvoicesonline [ dot ] org or use our contact form.

Many thanks to the folks over at the Social Media Exchange: Jessica Dheere, Reine Mattar, Rebecca S. Saade, Mohamad Najem and Naeema Zarif.

Click the cover image to download the guide (PDF format)

The guide provides a wealth of information on Twitter activism. It begins with an introduction to the platform (p. 5) and its terminology (p. 6) and then lays out five uses of Twitter for activists, each illustrated by a case study (p. 6-11). The guide then presents a step-by-step strategy for using Twitter for political and social change (p. 12) along with a list of do's and don'ts (p. 14) for campaigners. The guide ends with additional resources for Twitterers, such as applications that help you use Twitter (p. 16), further reading (p. 20), and even alternatives to Twitter (p. 18).

The guide was written by Andreas Jungherr, a master's candidate in political science at the University of Mainz in Germany, and was reviewed and improved by scholars, activists, and the DigiActive team, all for your reading enjoyment. Please respond with your feedback in the comments section below.

(cross-posted, with minor changes, from DigiActive.org)

The guide outlines several methods of protecting one’s identity in order to avoid retaliation and can considerably reduce the risks that a blogger’s identity will be linked to his or her online writings through technical means.

In order to provide you with the most up to date information on how to blog anonymously, the guide has been updated once again so that all the tips are compatible with Tor’s recent updates.

This update introduces the Tor Browser Bundle, an open source version of a portable browser developed by Tor Project, that lets you use Tor with zero install. Tor Browser is a great pre-configured Tor bundle with self contained Mozilla Firefox browser for USB drives or any other portable media (SD Card, Hard Drives, Compact Flash Card).

If you’re going to pursue your blogging activities primarily from shared computers (like cybercafe computers) or if you’re unable to install software on a computer, please follow the steps on how to run Tor Browser Bundle without needing to install any software.

The update includes tips on how to acquire the Tor bundle if your internet connection blocks access to the Tor website. It also includes tips on what to do if you encounter problems connecting to the Tor network.

Please link to it, download it and help disseminate this important information. Feel free as well to help us translating the guide into your own language.

For further information please contact us at: advocacy [ at ] globalvoicesonline [ dot ] org

Nine months too late, but thanks to the same gracious individual who translated GVA's Anonymous Blogging guide, we are now able to present you with the Chinese version of Blog for a Cause!: The Global Voices Guide of Blog Advocacy:

博客有理! 全球之声博客声援指南

“[T]o inform and to inspire,” for that is the point; and to further quote author of Blog for a Cause! Mary Joyce:

It explains how activists can use blogs as part of campaigns against injustice around the world. Blogging can help activists in several ways. It is a quick and inexpensive way to create a presence on the Internet, to disseminate information about a cause, and to organize actions to lobby decision-makers.

Cross-posting for Advocacy

We are pleased to release the second Advocacy 2.0 Guide: Cross-posting for Advocacy, An Introduction to Effective Social Media Integration. This guide offers us a brief introduction to how to use cross-posting for online advocacy campaign. It reviews different web 2.0 tools, showcasing successful examples where cross-posting has been used for advocacy. The guide also includes the pros and cons of the cross-posting technique.

Boost your online advocacy campaigning efforts

A successful and effective online campaign engages a variety of strategies in order to, on the one hand, raise awareness and promote a message, and on the other hand, to maximize outreach and attract new supporters driving them to take action in favor of your cause.

Thanks to the incredible widespread availability of all kinds of content on the Internet, you can now increase the reach of your online campaign by automatically and instantly cross-posting your blog or website entries on different Web 2.0 services, such as macro and micro blogging services (Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, etc.). It is another fantastic way to build communication and connect to your audience, and it can have far-reaching impact on your campaign, particularly by getting the attention of people who have never visited your website.

The entries on your blog and website are not separate entities. They can now appear on countless web platforms simultaneously, grabbing the attention of new niche audiences and opening new channels of communication with groups beyond the circle of your most loyal supporters. Your blog or website may remain your primary medium of choice for content, but since only some readers will follow you on Twitter or are subscribed to your RSS feed, this broad dissemination approach, has the potential to engage more people in your cause and encourage them to share links, sign electronic petitions, send emails, and even make donations.

There are multiple benefits to this approach. The first is that you drive more visitors, and thus eventual supporters, to your own blog campaign. Also, it has the effect of lengthening the lifetime of your blog and website entries by generating a cycle of sharing and promotion that can be easily picked up by search engines like Google.

Please download the guide as a PDF file and help us translating the guide in your language.

Table of Contents

- Introduction
- What do you need?
- How to feed your blog or website to Twitter?
- Update your Facebook Status via Twitter
- FeedBlitz takes it a step further by automating email and IM delivery
- Some arguments against the use of the cross-posting
- A good example on how to use the cross-posting technique

Please check out our other 2.0 guides for Advocacy

Geo-bombing is one of the techniques that can be employed to enable more effective dissemination of your YouTube videos campaign through Google mapping applications like Google Maps and Google Earth. Now you can watch your geotagged videos inside Google Earth and Google Maps. Any geo-tagged YouTube video will show up when the Youtube layer of Google Earth/Maps is turned on [read more…]

The Anonymous Blogging with Wordpress and Tor guide is now available in Portuguese thanks to this translation by Guilherme Barcellos., from GlobalVoices em Português.

The guide outlines several methods of protecting one’s identity in order to avoid retaliation and can considerably reduce the risks that a blogger’s identity will be linked to his or her online writings through technical means.

“Blogar no anonimato com Wordpress & Tor” is availble for download as a PDF file. If you experience difficulties viewing PDF format online, try this linkable and blogging-friendly HTML version.

Blogar no anonimato com Wordpress & Tor

Our goal is to:

• Aggregate web 2.0 tools for advocacy
• Provide detailed instructions on how to use them
• Highlight successful experiences of web 2.0 activism by local digital activists around the world.
• Inspire other activists to adopt these strategies in ways that serve their specific goals and needs.

From “Geo-bombing” to “multi-blogging” and Twitter to “mash-ups”, we explore the field of digital advocacy, helping activists reach out to audiences they may never have reached before.

We are releasing the first from a serie of Advocacy 2.0 Guides that will show you how to use the web 2.0 as an advocacy tool:

Geo-bombing is one of the techniques that can be employed to enable more effective dissemination of your YouTube videos campaign through Google mapping applications like Google Maps and Google Earth. Now you can watch your geotagged videos inside Google Earth and Google Maps. Any geo-tagged YouTube video will show up when the Youtube layer of Google Earth/Maps is turned on [read more…]