open society human rights workshop, 24.04.2013
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Open Society human rights internship workshop
Manushak Aslanyan
Huridocs/NGO Women for Development
April 2013, Budapest
Expertise of HuridocsHuridocs helps human rights organizations to use technologies and documentation methods through:
•developing tool and techniques for information management
• training and capacity building of NGOs
• provision of documentation techniques, monitoring methods, search technology to access human rights documentation, tools to document human rights violations,
• supports NGOs to build website in order to maximize their impact
Communication and Information management tools for NGOs:
WordPress WordPress
•a user friendly web software for creating websites and blogs
• over 60 million or more than 17% websites worldwide (e.g. New York Times, Yahoo, CNN, BBC America, etc.)
• free to start and simple to use
• flexible, easy to publish and manage information/users
• own the website/content and work with wordpress community
Communication and Information management WordPress
• Choose a web host
• Download and install the WordPress
• Choose a theme and start exploring
• Go through the online manual and join local WordCamp community
Start as a blog at WordPress Blog: www.wordpress.com
Websites essentials
The audience – who is the website addressed?
User experience – tourists vs regular visitors
Mapping – draft scheme of the website
Content – work on the content
Some ideas:
http://wordpress.org/showcase/tag-cloud/
Communication and Information management tools for NGOs: e–
newsletter
Mail Chimp makes it easy to create and share e–newsletters for different purposes
•free for up to 2000 subscribers /12.000 emails per month/ ‑ easy to share via social networks
•track your campaign and get reports (graphics, maps, tables)
• great support team
Mailchimp e–newsletter
• Sign up on www.mailchimp.com
• Create a list in your account and import subscribers’ emails
• Establish groups within the list
• Create campaign and select the list/group
• Choose an existing template and add the content
• Send test emails and then the campaign
Communication and Information management tools for NGOs:
OpenEvsysOpenEvsys: is a free open source database application that can be used by human rights organizations to:
• record human rights violations and store related documents, manage information
•browse the history/details of a specific victim or case
•filter the cases through the powerful search system
OpenEvsys features• OpenEvsys can be used from a web sever
and make it easy to share/work from different office locations
• OpenEvsys has a powerful search system, which allows to filter information according to gender, region, date, etc.
• OpenEvsys can be easily customized, allowing to delete/replace a field you do not need
• You can control each user’s access to specific information
• OpenEvsys is multilingual
Communication and Information management tools for NGOs:
CaseBox• Integrated document and task
management
• Customised to your needs and the way you work
• Assign tasks and deadlines easily
• Receive notifications for new tasks
• Monitor progress and workload
CaseBox: Document Management
• Access documents wherever you are
• Identify latest draft – keep track of version history
• Add information to folders (e.g. articles alleged to be violated)
• See tasks related to document (e.g. revise draft)
Permission Scheme
• Manage for every single document who can read, write or delete
• Use groups and individuals to quickly manage permissions
• Make sure sensitive data is protected
Thank you!