Women’sNet invites you to participate in the Blog-a-Thon initiative that will be taking place during the whole course of the 16 Days of Activism. This activity is line with the "Take Back the Tech" campaign which aims to use technology as a tool to combat violence against women (VAW). (see http://www.takebackthetech.net/)
Re a Blogga / Blog-a-thon! (16 Days non-stop blogging):
"Re a Blogga" is the name of our Blog-a-Thon. The aim of blogging is to get people to speak out and write about gender injustices they witness or experience daily. This activity is a collective effort that will enhance the efforts to raise awareness on gender injustice.
Women'sNet is passionate about sharing information and creating safe space for expression and creation of information. For the duration of 16 days of activism we would like to encourage you to sign up and blog about issues and scenarios that we will be sending out to our list serve.
What you need to do:
On Women'sNet website, under user login, top right, click on 'create a new account', follow instructions there. This is free, and won't take more than 5 minutes. Then you can start blogging and making comments on news items and other people's blogs. Women'sNet will send out scenarios to prompt discussions. These will also be posted on our website and we encourage you to respond to them by blogging. See today's theme here.
What is a blog?
- A blog is a personal diary
- A daily pulpit.
- A collaborative space.
- A political soapbox
- A breaking-news outlet
- A collection of links
- Mostly, your own private thoughts and memos to the world.
The aim of the Blogathon is to change the perspective of blogging from a strictly journalistic medium to a medium of self expression defined by free talk, which would incorporate many more people into blogging communities.
