1. Harnessing Technology for
Activism
Brenda Zulu
Africa Interactive Media
Journalist/Blogger

2. Presentation Outline
• Intro to Web2.0 applications
• Social media tools ( FB, Twitter and Linkedin)
• Audio
• Pictures
• Blogs
• Google products
• Open source (Ushahidi)

3. Web 2.0 applications
• Web 2.0 is a concept that takes the network as a
platform for information sharing, interoperability,
user-centered design,[1]and collaboration on the
World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to
interact and collaborate with each other in a
social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of
user-generated content in a virtual community, in
contrast to websites where users (consumers) are
limited to the passive viewing of content that was
created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include
social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing
sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups
and folksonomies.

4. Web 2.0 cloud

5. Social Media tools
• Facebook
• http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gender-
Based-Violence-GBV/190502681078142
• Twitter
• 140 characters plus Links, pictures, videos
• Trending topics
• Linkedin
• Groups moderate a dgroup discussion

6. Social media

7. Blogging
• Blogging is self production of content in
reverse chronology
• Data blogs
• Video blogs
• Audio blogs
• Pictures ( flickr)

8. Google products
• Google docs
• Google alert
• Google maps (Ushahidi)
http://harassmap.org/
• Google as a search engine

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emails:
brendazulu2002@gmail.com
brendazulu2002@yahoo.co.in
http://brendait.blogspot.com
Twitter: @ictjournalist
Linkedin/Facebook : Brenda Nglazi Zulu

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emails:
brendazulu2002@gmail.com
brendazulu2002@yahoo.co.in
http://brendait.blogspot.com
Twitter: @ictjournalist
Linkedin/Facebook : Brenda Nglazi Zulu