One of the most useful set of tools available to advocacy practitioners is social media tools.
Social media is … a way of using the Internet to instantly collaborate, share information, or have a conversation ideas or causes we care about. It’s a world where anyone can be a publisher, a reporter, an artist, a filmmaker, a photographer or pundit …. Even an activist or citizen philanthropist!” - Beth Kanter
During 2007/2008 ISC supported grantees of our USAID funded Ukraine Citizen Action Network program to explore ways they can use social media tools in their work. We held a series of workshops in Kiev which began with an introductory workshop, a social media strategy workshop and will be followed with another introductory workshop available to more organizations and a workshop which digs deeper into the implementation of a specific social media tool such as blogs or social networking sites.
We developed a website with tools to help Ukrainian citizens make better use of online government information. The site contains a Google Specialized Search Engine and an index of Ukrainian government websites with descriptions of the types of information available on the sites. The site is in both Ukrainian and English. Click here to visit the site.
We have also compiled Ukrainian language resources which provide short descriptions of the major social media tools. Click here