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Joel Katz
Outreach Blogger
9 June 2010
Okay. Sorry guys, this is tricky. Another blackout has darkened Dhaka, so my shiny screen’s the only light I have.
One of the Canadian t-shirt wearing hotel brigade just knocked on my door with my clothes in vacuum-sealed bags, cardboard inserts and even little plastic clips. That’s awesome – thought they were still balled up in my backpack.
Today we were lucky to catch a 1Goal event hosted by ActionAid Bangladesh in one of the poorer districts in Dhaka’s east. AA’s dynamic duo, Hasan and Amir, set up a soccer match for some of the boys and girls from the one of Dhaka’s poorer suburbs as part of the 1Goal Campaign. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 1Goal, actionaid, Actionaid Bangladesh, Argentina, Bangladesh, blogging, Brazil, Dhaka, Education, outreach blogger, project toto, Soccer, World Cup
Joel Katz
Outreach Blogger
31st May 2010
Sitting in a Sydney café, bundled up in jacket and scarf, as the icy rain pelts down outside. Light flickers from my laptop’s shimmering screen – the only warmth on this drabbest of days. Locals shuffle past, musing on what shade of pink Mat Preston’s pants will be tonight on MasterChef, and if they’ll match his cravat.
Hmm… food for thought, and really does help us through these dreary winter days.
But wait. Suddenly it hits me with the force of a rapidly descending mini-grand piano landing on my head that Sharna and I will be in face-meltingly hot Dhaka in a matter of days. Our realities will be up-ended, like a flipped Chapati frying in a Bangladeshi street stall.
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Tags: Actionaid Bangladesh, Bangladesh, blogging, Dhaka, MasterChef, outreach blogger, social media, winter
Sharna Bremner
Outreach Blogger
20 May 2010
In my first pre-departure TOTO blog, I want to thank the magic that is the World Wide Web. With just three weeks to go before Joel and I jet off to Bangladesh, my life has become a flurry of vaccinations, preparations, nerves, excitement and a never-ending stream of university work that must be completed before I leave.
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Tags: Bangladesh, blogging, outreach blogger, social media
Joel Katz
Outreach Blogger
20 May 2010
Bangladesh here we come! In just a few weeks we’ll be arriving in Dhaka as the next Outreach Bloggers, and I’m doing some rigorous pre-departure research to get a feel for the place.
That’s right – like every expert in the field, I Google it.
First site that pops up: Wikipedia. “Pffft…Skip that.”
Second site is the CIA World Factbook. Sounds kind of conspiratorial, but let’s have a squiz anyway.
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Tags: Bangladesh, Bay of Bengal, blogging, Ganges River, outreach blogger, poverty, project toto, social media
Are you a blogger or a social media power-user? If so, please read on – we need to borrow your brains for Project TOTO.
ActionAid is putting together a Blog Training Guide for our outreach bloggers Sharna and Joel to use when training the locals in Bangladesh next month and we’d love your feedback on the suggested content.
Below is a (very) rough outline for a Blogger Training Guide we’ve thrown together. But, before we go any further with developing the guide, we thought it might be worth asking you, as a social media savvy TOTO supporter, for your feedback.
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Tags: actionaid, blogging, citizen journalism, outreach blog, outreach blogger, project toto, social media, technology, training
TOTO Challenge #3 required the shortlist fundraise for Project TOTO to help us reach our $10,000 target.
This challenge was not just about testing each nominee’s creativity, network of influence and social media skills, but was also a practical necessity.
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Tags: actionaid australia, challenge, fundraising, outreach blog, outreach blogger, project toto, shortlist
Let’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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Tags: blogging, outreach blogger, project toto, technology, video blog
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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Tags: actionaid, actionaid australia, blogging, challenge, climate change, outreach blog, outreach blogger, poverty, project toto, shortlist, social media
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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Tags: actionaid, actionaid australia, blogging, challenge, outreach blog, outreach blogger, poverty, project toto, shortlist, social media
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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Tags: actionaid, actionaid australia, blogging, human rights, outreach blog, outreach blogger, poverty, project toto, shortlist, social media
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