Comments on: The value of blogging in activism http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2008/04/09/the-value-of-blogging-in-activism/ Blog of Parents for Ethical Marketing Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:36:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Lisa @ Corporate Babysitter http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2008/04/09/the-value-of-blogging-in-activism/#comment-964 Lisa @ Corporate Babysitter Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:28:49 +0000 http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2008/04/09/the-value-of-blogging-in-activism/#comment-964 Mom, you are absolutely right. Blogging also helps me organize my thoughts so that I have something to say when I do speak out to others. Tracee Sioux, thanks for the comment. Yours was one of the first blogs I read when I first got started. I'd love to write something about the conference. I'll send you an email. Mom, you are absolutely right. Blogging also helps me organize my thoughts so that I have something to say when I do speak out to others.

Tracee Sioux, thanks for the comment. Yours was one of the first blogs I read when I first got started. I’d love to write something about the conference. I’ll send you an email.

]]> By: Tracee Sioux http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2008/04/09/the-value-of-blogging-in-activism/#comment-963 Tracee Sioux Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:10:39 +0000 http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2008/04/09/the-value-of-blogging-in-activism/#comment-963 I blog because I got tired of mainstream publishers telling me girl issues, including marketing about them and to them, didn't make compelling enough reading for a monthly column. I now write a daily column about it on my blog, http://www.sosiouxme.com and I am getting great feedback about it. I know parents are tired of the way girls are marketed to and how they are perceived in advertising. Parents are just hoping someone will help them figure out what to do about it. Here I am. I got a great response from the Abercrombie Hospital story I put on my site. I appreciate the CCFC giving parents an easy action step so they don't have to feel so powerless. I would have loved to have been at the conference. Since you had the opportunity to go would you like to guest-post on So Sioux Me and share what you learned in relation to girls? I blog because I got tired of mainstream publishers telling me girl issues, including marketing about them and to them, didn’t make compelling enough reading for a monthly column.

I now write a daily column about it on my blog, http://www.sosiouxme.com and I am getting great feedback about it. I know parents are tired of the way girls are marketed to and how they are perceived in advertising. Parents are just hoping someone will help them figure out what to do about it. Here I am.

I got a great response from the Abercrombie Hospital story I put on my site. I appreciate the CCFC giving parents an easy action step so they don’t have to feel so powerless.

I would have loved to have been at the conference. Since you had the opportunity to go would you like to guest-post on So Sioux Me and share what you learned in relation to girls?

]]> By: mom http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2008/04/09/the-value-of-blogging-in-activism/#comment-962 mom Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:49:07 +0000 http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2008/04/09/the-value-of-blogging-in-activism/#comment-962 There's another, much more micro link between blogging and activism -- At the indivdiuals level, I think it's mobilizing. When you chronicle your own frustrations, it inspires you to act on them. Once I started to write it all down, I started being more vocal IRL also. In addition, if you start reading blogs on your issue(s), you often find new ways to act through others' provocations. This builds your own activist toolkit and deepens the efforts of others. It's great. There’s another, much more micro link between blogging and activism — At the indivdiuals level, I think it’s mobilizing. When you chronicle your own frustrations, it inspires you to act on them. Once I started to write it all down, I started being more vocal IRL also. In addition, if you start reading blogs on your issue(s), you often find new ways to act through others’ provocations. This builds your own activist toolkit and deepens the efforts of others. It’s great.

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