OzPoliCon is Australia's annual conference for online activists and political bloggers, vloggers and anyone that uses the Internet for campaigning purposes. The conference encourages collaboration and sharing different ideas, experiences and perspectives about online activism, its trends and future directions. It also delves into strategies and techniques for online campaigning. Unlike a lot of other conferences this one is different in that it is you the politicos (ie political bloggers, vloggers and online activists and operatives) that help shape the conference agenda and speakers.
Describers 5 great tools for activists that have been created by other activists. They are pretty good tools and a few of them particularly speak to concerns about online identity and ensuring that friends are actually friends.
The article outlines how the Liberal Party of Australia, through the Conservative Leadership Foundation, has established an online campaigning network. It outlines the purpose behind it.
Crabgrass is a software libre web application designed for social networking, group collaboration and network organizing. Our goal is to create communication tools that are tailored specifically to meet the needs of bottom up grassroots organizing.