"This brief offers an overview of current practice in the new and now rapidly growing field of advocacy evaluation. It highlights the kinds of approaches being used, offers specific examples of how they are being used and who is using them, and identifies the advantages and disadvantages of each app
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roach. The brief is organized around the summary matrix on page 2, which identifies four key evaluation design questions and then offers common advocacy evaluation responses to those questions.1 Questions include: 1) Who will do the evaluation? 2) What will the evaluation measure? 3) When will the evaluation take place? 4) What methodology will the evaluation use? For each question, three options or possible responses are given. Options are based on the experiences of advocates, evaluators, and funders who already have responded to these questions and are learning about the benefits and drawbacks of their choices." (Page 1)
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"This book reveals the true impact of stories on our lives and how stories can create feelings of hope, take away psychological distress and even stimulate the immune system. It contains over 90 short stories, and allows readers to understand the patterns storytellers use to captivate attention and
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how truths are often encapsulated in stories." (Publisher description)
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"An analysis of the production and consumption of the communications of Make Poverty History, a high profile episode of social movement protest in the UK. The book follows the campaign throughout its lifetime and explores how attitudes towards government and political opportunities influenced the ne
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gotiation of communications." (Publisher description)
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"Our intention in producing Success and Learning Stories is to provide readers with a document that helps them respond to Food for Peace’s (FFP’s) original request for short stories as part of their regular reporting requirements. The module provides brief guidance on how to write good impact st
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ories that will address the needs of a number of audiences, including FFP. Underlying the module is a desire to improve the learning associated with the human impact of project implementation." (Preface)
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"This Media Reform Action Guide is your invitation to rise up, take to the phones, the Internet and the streets to build a better media system. Each chapter in this guide will help make your voice heard on the media issues that matter to you. Whether you’re motivated to fight for a free and open I
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nternet, for diverse media ownership, or for vibrant public and independent media, this guide is for you. The Media Reform Action Guide provides valuable, step-by-step information on everything from raising awareness and monitoring your local media to advocating for national policy changes. It will help you make an impact – and connect you to other activists and to a powerful movement for better media." (Page 3)
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"[...] ¿En qué medida [los políticos] saben aprovechar de la mejor manera del ciberactivismo, sobre todo durante las campañas electorales? ¿Qué espacio queda desaprovechado y dónde se hacen usos contrarios a las exigencias democráticas? El Programa Medios de Comunicación y Democracia en Lat
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inoamérica de la Fundación Konrad Adenauer consideró importante analizar estos aspectos. Por eso se financió un primer análisis latinoamericano. El trabajo siguió la idea de la autora, Carmen Beatriz Fernández, quien es conocida dentro de la red OCPLA de consultores políticos en la subregión como experta en esta área. En esta publicación se aclaran aspectos adicionales en varios capítulos, que apuntan a hacer conocer no sólo las mejores prácticas sino también las trampas, los fundamentos básicos para la organización de la ciberpolítica y cómo resolver la paradoja de ser masivo y a la vez personal." (Presentación, página 7-8)
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"The first seven chapters in Talking theWalk look in detail at the realities of communicating in partnership. As well as narrative, each chapter contains a number of boxes and tables giving examples or “Practitioner Tips”. Near the start of chapter 7 (pages 58-59), you will find a diagram outlin
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ing the communication aspects of the Partnering Cycle. Chapter 8 comprises nine tools that you can use or adapt for your own purposes. Since the manual is about communication, we invited as many contributors as possible to participate in this project, to demonstrate the collaboration that we saw as a vital ingredient of partnering communication.Woven throughout the manual are think pieces that some of these contributors have written. In addition, chapter 9 contains communication stories and communication case studies reflecting the experience of a range of practitioners in the field." (Page 1)
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"This publication focuses on unique communication-centered approaches to social change and introduces basic concepts, strategies and theories supporting edutainment strategies to foster social change and social movement building. It provides examples of how the organizations have used edutainment st
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rategies, describing challenges, lessons learned and insights for the future, especially related to strategic planning and evaluation. It also provides references for where to find more information or who to seek for further advice on the design and implementation of these approaches." (Foreword)
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"Gespräche und Verhandlungen, aber auch das Regeln von Konflikten und Auseinandersetzungen stehen auf der Tagesordnung von Verantwortlichen und MitarbeiterInnen, die in gesellschaftspolitischen Organisationen Führungsaufgaben wahrnehmen. Wer die Spielregeln und das Handwerkszeug professioneller Ge
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sprächs- und Verhandlungsführung sowie geeignete Konfliktbearbeitungsstrategien beherrscht, kann Gespräche und Verhandlungen erfolgreicher führen. Das Trainingsbuch „Wirkungsvolle Kommunikation“, das nunmehr in der 4. Auflage erscheint, liefert Ihnen einen Leitfaden für Gespräche, Verhandlungen und den Umgang mit Konflikten. Es möchte – wie alle Trainingsbücher der Akademie Management und Politik der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung – Personen unterstützen, die an professionellem politischem Managementwissen interessiert sind, um ihr gesellschaftspolitisches Engagement wirkungsvoller und erfolgreicher zu gestalten." (Vorwort)
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"Blogs are more or less controllable for those who want to keep them under surveillance. Governments that are most up to do date with new technology use the most sophisticated filtering or blocking techniques, preventing them from appearing on the Web at all. But bloggers don't just sit back and let
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it happen. The essential question becomes how to blog in complete safety. With a normal IP address, a blogger can be tracked down and arrested. Anonymity allows them to keep their freedom.
In countries where censorship holds sway, blogs are sometimes the only source of news. During the events in Burma in the autumn of 2007, pitting monks and the people against the military junta, bloggers were the main source of news for foreign journalists. Their video footage made it possible to gauge the scale of the protests and what demonstrators' demands were. For more than two months, marches were held in the streets, then a massive crackdown was launched against opponents that only the Burmese were able to show, so hard did it become for the few foreign journalists who managed to enter the country to get back out with their footage. And bloggers could not get the footage out without getting round online censorship imposed by the government. This handbook seeks to help every blogger to fill in the "black holes" In news. The second part is devoted to techniques which can thwart filtering technology." (Page 4-5)
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