Draft of Workshop by Riaz
Political Communication in new age
10: 40 am
Gulmina Bilal Introduce herself
To use these tools as politically
Introduce of Abe ………………………. Professional Bolger
Individual Introductions
What did you think while you received invitation? By Gulmina
Views of Participants
• Political Communication awareness
• New resources/ tools to pol: comm.
• Web development
• Online publications/ podcasting
• Pressure group/ change agents by using internet
• Censorship issues overcome
• Voice to the Voiceless
Abe
New Media Communication Tools
What is blog
1. A web application which contains periodic
2. it’s a personal dairy a daily pulpit
Why blog?
• It’s an outlet
• An exercise
• An alternative form of communication / media
• Engage in social conversation
• Levels the playing field
• To leverage influence
• Transparency
• Adds personal touch
What are the different blog applications?
• Hosted blogs
Pictures : Web.com / Typad
• Remote Blogs
Publsh Get Post Go
• Independent / Stand alone blogs
Expression engine
Things Consider
• Cost of maintaincae (free or paid
• Skills required to maintain a blog
Advantages/ disadvantages of stand –alone blogs
• No maintenance cost
• Easy and fasts sign up and blog creation
• Limited features
• Limited customization
• Lack of technical support
• Ownership and control
• Personalization
• Flexible/ wider range of features / multiple authors
• Integration with other applications
• Provide technical support cost is proportional to the size of blog
• Requires a little more technical
your own blog?
• Why it’s called Blog?
• Web log nick name blog
• Pod casting? Audio Video …
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Riaz Hussain Bhutto
