Archive for March 23rd, 2007
Orientation Welcome
Welcome to the orientation for the Oakland Community Voice Blogging project. Today we will be talking about how you can join this project: come to a one-day training (meal provided), work with your fellow bloggers on identifying an important community issue, begin blogging and attend a public event around the issue. We are arranging this for you to become a blogger and express your voice around community issues you have identified as important.
Blogging is a very powerful channel to reach out and be heard. Today is not the training, but an orientation, but to give you a sense of what is to come each of you will create a yahoo account, a blogger account and begin a personal blog. During the training you will use the yahoo account for creating your community voice blog and for rss aggregation (more on that during the training).
Please join this project team in building the first blogger community from ECC for the sake of East Oakland.
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Examples of Blogs
Political Blogs
Al Gore – he posts about his testimony on capitol hill
Citizen Ads - the “vote different” ad creator revealed on Huffington Post
Skeptical Brotha - Response from Barak Obama’s pastor to a NYT
Oakland Magazine – the “politics” tag
Community Blogs
East Oakland Community High School
People’s Grocery – Stop predatory development in west Oakland
Byron Williams blogs about crime in Oakland
Ella Baker Center – Wake up Oakland!
Celebrating Dia de los Muertos, Domigoyu’s blog about music and education
Journalistic Blogs
NPR – Rough Cuts with Michel Martin, “Mocha Moms”
CNN – blogs, topics of the day
Other blogs
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Training Partner – Social Media Club and Brain Jams
We are thrilled that BrainJams will be offering social networking training for the Community Voice project. BrainJams is also a project of the Social Media Club founder Chris Heuer.
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