We didn’t see it coming – this bizarre new e-world.  Back in the day we thought that past 2000 we’d be zipping about in air cars and robots would doing all our work – we didn’t predict that the greatest change would be a crazy proliferation of communication with millions of people all round the world texting, emailing, blogging, pxting, [...]

I live in a safe country where I can openly use blogging as a platform to offer challenges and critique of whatever I wish without fear of violent reprisal from a state authority. This is one of the things I love about democracy – the freedom to speak and voice one’s opinion. Such safety is not the case for all [...]

Marketing is a huge factor in what many NGO’s do. PR and marketing are integral in what such organizations do as they live off support from the public, giving the public the opportunity to be involved in what they do. A successful marketing and PR tool that has been used by some organizations is the use of bands/musicians to spread [...]

I don’t think I am overstating it when I assert that the potential exists for bloggers to determine and shape what the world talks about. This can be seen on a minor level when influential blogs cover issues that are then picked up and spread around the internet by other bloggers and sometimes by mainstream media. The blogging platform is [...]

Let it be said up front that The Humanitarian Chronicle supports the plight of cyber-dissidents harassed by hostile governments for their expression. For the sake of clarity, we define the term cyber-dissident in the same way as has been put forward via Wikipedia: A cyber-dissident is a professional journalist or citizen journalist who posts news, information, or commentary on the [...]