On-line campaigning
Introducing a variety of on-line tools for community action and campaigning.
Presenters
Howard Nielsen is a green community worker and sustainability consultant who has worked with large and small organisations to change sustainability practices in communities and businesses. He has developed three web-based sustainability tools and the most recent of these, www.greenstreet.net.au is gaining strong momentum as an integrator of face-to-face and online action in communities.
Howard conducts NAC Consulting www.nacconsulting.com.au and has experience, qualifications and accreditations in a wide cross-section of environmental services. He has a long standing engagement in grass roots community campaigns.
Peter Campbell is a self employed independent IT consultant currently working in the energy industry. His work includes providing consulting, management and IT advice on climate change and emissions trading. He initiated the Greenlivingpedia.org project in 2007 to provide information, campaign resources and collaboration on green living, green building and green community action in Australia and globally. He is very keen to promote the wider use of information technologies such as wikis, blogs and social networking within our community to strengthen our democracy and increase grass roots participation.
Overview of the workshop
Peter Campbell. Using wikis such as Wikepedia, Greenlivingpedia and Appropedia to collect and share information on green topics, with a focus on solutions for a sustainable future.
Howard Nielsen. How we’re integrating online capacity and face-to-face strategies by using Green Street www.greenstreet.net.au as a neighbourhood mobiliser as well as an internet social networking site?
