Turning up the heat

This section looks more closely at some of the techniques which are and can be used to mobilize on women's issues in cyberspace. 
 

Women's access to technology is obviously a pre-requisite and here are some references to materials which give a good summary of the issues: Women's Involvement with Online and Interactive Content, OSW, Oct. '96 Women and the Information Revolution (UN Division for the Advancement of Women)

Campaigns

National Women's Justice Coalition - Legal Aid Cuts

Note links to key briefing material, primary resources and media watch

Women's Electoral Lobby - Women and the constitution

Keep you eye on the WEL site for briefings on women and the constitution and the constitutional convention to be held this year

Gun control information web site

Note the links to sites running the contrary arguments - this can be a way of ensuring that your audience is fully briefed. Also see the campaign poster which can be printed from the web and turned into posters and other campaign material

Canadian Women's Internet Association:Candlelight Vigil Across the Internet 

This is a campaign logo which was picked up by many other web sites - when added to a web page it provides a link back to the base page for information about the campaign

16 days of activism to end violence against women

International campaign to end violence against women

Electronic Frontiers Australia - Stop Telstra Campaign 

Note the detail in the briefing information - and use of a campaign logo which can be taken up on other web sites

National Organisation of Women (USA) - check out the Key Issues section!

Links to primary and secondary material, educational packages

Australian Bureau of Statistics Women's Safety Survey, Dec. '96

Australian National Women's Justice Coalition - Reading room

League of Women Voters (US) - Tools for Drinking Water Protection Feminist

Satelite video conferencce - note subscription arrangements - conference as a focus for community and key group meetings - note availability of additional resource and organisational assistance

Building networks

Global Network for Rural Women

Formed by Australian agricultural and rural women

Washington Women's Faxnet - online subscription info

Women's Web Ring

The Web Ring lists subscribing web sites - the icon goes on the subscribers site and when clicked it takes you to the next site on the web ring list. 

Providing tools for activism

Human Rights Campaign Action Centre:

Identify elected representatives by your post code (US) 

National Women's Justice Coalition - Australian Federal Parliament

NWJC - Australian political parties

Research your issues

Feminist Majority On Line: Census - register your support for women's rights - census form 

Research on single mothers (Australian researcher - online questionaire)

and this is the researcher: Chris Whitelaw

Fundraising
 

Merchandise

eg. US National Organisation of Women 
 

(lots of great things like this mouse pad)
 

Sale of publications

Advertising/sponsorship

Membership drives

Women's activist discussion lists

Women-related activist discussion lists 

Ausfem-Polnet

AUSFEM-POLNET is an electronic network for activists, practitioners and scholars who are actively involved with policies which aim to improve the status of women. 

vs-online-strat mailing list

Info: a list for those who are actively working to get women online and to integrate electronic communications into the daily operations of your women's organisation, project or initiative

To subscribe: email message to majordomo@ipc.apc.org, leave subject line blank, type the following message: subscribe vs-online-strat then type your email address

 

Women'space Magazine 

Info: Promotes feminist organizing through electronic communications. Vol. 1 What do Women Activists Do Online? by Scarlet Pollock

Feminist activist resources on the net

Feminist Activist Resources on the Net 

Lets Get Cooking!

No. 1: Starting off an email network.......
 

There are several variations. 

...The easiest one is to get the email addresses of those who you need to network with most on your issues and make a 'nickname list' using your email program. That way you can type one message and address it so that it goes to everyone on the list. 

...The next level up is to establish an automated mailing list - common names are 'majordomo' and 'listserv'. Using these lists the participants email to the list and everyone on the list gets to read it and respond. For an explanation of how these work see Chapter 6 of Rye Senjen and Jane Guthrey's book: ................................

...The final level - is a bulletin board or web based discussion list - an example of the former is the NSW Law Foundation's FirstClass Law Bulletin Board which has a closed section where Community Legal Centres in Australia are exchanging information and cooking up plans. An example of the latter is the Isis Creations International Women's Day '97 discussion list . 

No. 2: A Web of Your Own.... 
 

The basic recipe is to choose an internet service provider (ISP') which provides space for your web page as part of the monthly fee. The first stage of creating an activist web site is to map out your site and then put up information about your organisation and membership.

• ... next list your web site with heaps of search engines. You might also want to use a 'meta tag' (thingo which helps search engines list your site). You can see a meta tag on the Women's Electoral Lobby Women's Electoral Lobby web site - go there and use your browser to look at the view the 'document source'. You should also advertise your page through electronic dicussion lists and email other organisations with web pages asking them to put in a link to your site.

  ...then you might add links to material and to other groups relevant to your issues.

  ...over time you might add information your ogranisation has produced and maybe encourage your members to turn to the web site as their primary source of inforation about your current issues. If you have someone with the time to manage it, you might also add a subscription facility for email alerts.

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