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facebookbrainAre 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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Social media has an image problem. I think we all know why. Read the rest of this entry »

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Now that the lucky outreach bloggers have been announced, Project TOTO is keen as a bean for you to share your skills with us in a new social media experiment – ActionAid’s Tech4Change Blog Day.

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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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TOTO Challenge#2 required the shortlist to create 60-second video blogs on how technology could be used to fight poverty.

This was arguably a much more difficult challenge for the shortlist than the previous blog challenge, for a number of reasons.

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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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Below are the responses to TOTO Challenge #2 (60 second video on how technology can help fight poverty) from our Project TOTO shortlist.

To help ActionAid judge these clips, please post a comment at the bottom of this post telling us which video you liked most and why.

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The below post is from Laurel Papworth in response to TOTO Challenge #1

DISCUSSING CLIMATE CHANGE

Hmmm. “climate change” – does anyone NOT have an opinion? Even if it’s “I wish they’d shut up about climate change” it’s still on our radar, in a big way.  We have the time and education and resources to debate the issue in the pubs, loungerooms, bars, gyms, and on Twitter. If we want to. Our choice. Yet not every country has the luxury of being able to stop and discuss global issues at a local level.

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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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