FOCUS/ODAP Workshop:

Using Technology to Share Your Message

January 19, 2005

Welcome and Session Overview

Liz Rykert's Electronic Strategy Development Primer.

In any on-line effort, there are essentially three things that you can do:

  1. provide information;
  2. look for information; and
  3. work together

Providing Information

Websites with interactive features

Best Start's Provincial Alcohol and Pregnancy Campaign:

Teennet's Smoking Zine (contrast with Stupid.ca or Philip Morris).

Health Promotion 101

Prescribing Prevention (available February 11 or thereabouts)

Database-driven sites

OHPE

Canadian Health Network

Apolnet shared events calendar

Blogs

Blogger

LiveJournal

The Civiblog Project

The Big Picture

Experimental blog

Check-in: Other suggestions?

Looking for Information

RSS Aggregators ("Really Simple Syndication")

Here's one decent plain language explanation of RSS and why it's interesting.

See CBC's feeds page for an example.

I use an aggregator called Sage, but there is an extensive list of other options on Wikipedia

Table of Contents services

Oxford University Press' journals, for one example

Working Together

Discussion lists

Apolnet

Click4HP

Yahoo Groups (free, but check privacy policy)

Web Networks (pay)

Instant messaging

Trillian

Social bookmarks

del.icio.us

my del.icio.us bookmarks

Use of pictures / digital photography

ten by ten

photo pages from the Parkdale Tenants' Association's Golden Cockroach Award contender buildings

Contact information

Robyn Kalda

robynk@opc.on.ca

416-408-2249 x226

Last updated: January 18, 2005