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Back in July 2009, ActionAid launched a nationwide hunt to find our next outreach blogger for Project TOTO. Eight months, 52 nominees, 12 finalists and three challenges later, we’ve made a decision.

But there’s a twist.

After putting our 12 finalists through three carefully designed challenges we were unable to identify a single perfect outreach blogger.

Instead we found two.

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DesktopComputerLet’s talk technology. Specifically, what technology ActionAid needs to procure for our next outreach blog.

What is the minimum tech package any decent blogger requires?

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When ActionAid asked our Project TOTO shortlist to blog about the link between climate change and poverty, we really didn’t know what we’d get back.

In the end, we received nine well crafted blogs that reflected the huge diversity of people in our shortlist. We had climate change sceptics, climate change converts and climate change champions.  We also had discussions about horse poo. Read the rest of this entry »

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videoblogBelow is ActionAid’s second challenge to the Project TOTO nominee shortlist. Nominees have until Monday, 14 December 2009 to complete the challenge.

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ActionAid was one of the major supporters of this year's National Climate Emergency Rally

ActionAid was a major supporter of this year's National Climate Emergency Rally

Below is ActionAid’s first challenge to the Project TOTO nominee shortlist. Nominees have until Monday, 30 November 2009 to complete the challenge.

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So, we’ve cut the list of possible outreach bloggers down from over 50 people to just 12. What now? How do we choose just one person from these 12 excellent candidates? The answer… challenges!

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After weeks of deliberations and heated debate, ActionAid has finally chosen a shortlist for our next outreach blogger.

Choosing the shortlist was never going to be easy, but we didn’t realise just how difficult it would be.

All up, we had 52 fantastic candidates nominated by over 350 people. The comments in favour of our nominees ran over 120 pages long. Removing people from the shortlist, as opposed to adding them, was the biggest challenge.

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