sooooooo...web 2.0 is what we've been doing???

so they said that there wasn't a web 1.0 until there was a web 2.0...sort of like there's no light without dark...but i digress, do i not???

both lynne and i went to the online organizing 1.0-an interactive workshop on YouTube, social networking sites, blogging, and activism at the amnesty international annual general meeting in milwaukee (it's where i've been blogging from dingo, k'?)...and it's interesting to see the various levels of comfort people have with the new, interactive internet or web 2.0...

it's definitely a young person's world, or, you have to think young and be open to change in order to grasp the significance of the new web as an activist networking community and an organizing tool...

while our local amnesty group has used blogger and myspace (and the old school yahoogroups listserve) as tools we have barely gotten on the YouTube wagon and totally missed the digg.com and del.icio.us boats (which are social bookmarking sites)...

so the challenge is multi-faceted: to have enough people to maintain fresh content on the sites (know your capacity), use unique and opinionated voices to make your content interesting, link you sites to other sites (tit for tat) to drive traffic, and begin creating our own podcasts and videos to spread the message, issues, content, and actions of human rights and social justice...

that's right - it's not about YOU per se it's about utilizing tools in interesting, creative, and hopefully effective ways to spread the message, the word the culture of human rights for all...

peace out <3