The World Economic Forum at Davos has come and gone again, and this year there was a fair amount of blogging around the edges. Loic was on the spot doing video interviews, whilst others lucky or important enough to be there regaled the blogosphere with non-stories of things they can’t tell us about, which made Will Davies slightly cynical about the actual level of knowledge being exchanged at Davos in these unreportable sessions
As Wittgenstein pointed out, if I have something in a box and so do you, it doesn’t matter what it is or if it even exists, as long as we both refer to it using the same word.
Our contribution this year was a little weblog we set up for Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, who blogged from Davos about some of the forgotten issues such as Darfur, Palestine and the impact of the so-called War on Terror
Across the world, governments are actively undermining human rights in the name of the fight against terrorism. How far has this process of erosion actually inflamed terrorism, rather than staunching it – particularly given that these measures have all too often targeted and discriminated against those very communities whose support is needed to fight terrorism?
You can find out more about Amnesty’s work here.
Good to read that yet another charity has picked up the challenge of using blogs to communicate with stakeholders.
Our charity website benchmark report published last year revealed that in fact at the time very few charities were blogging. We are about to undertake the research for the 2007 report, to be published in April, and will report on what the current charity blogging status is.
Blogging for charities is a particularly ideal method for stakeholder communication allowing trustees, executives, volunteers and beneficiaries to actually engage in conversation with each other.