Empowerment Community
Under development.
This community consists of survivors, artists, religious thinkers, philosophers, psychologists, researchers, care workers and social activists who wish to work together to impact research, arts, and society so that they better reflect the personal, social, and spiritual meaning of rape and other forms of inter-personal trauma.
Eventually we hope to provide tools that will facilitate collaboration and action. Some ideas under consideration are listed below. If you would like to add ideas or contribute your technical skills to the development of this community, please comment below or send us an email. For contact information, see Contact Us.
Support for collaboration and individual empowerment
- Organization registry: create pages which display organizations, allow organizations to be linked to external websites and to one or more members or working groups.
- Event registry: register upcoming events, cross reference to organization, working groups, users
- Publisher/media registry: lists of publishers and promoters who are willing to support or publish work by community members.
- Written and artistic output: allow either links+summary or actual on-site document creation newsletters, declarations, press-releases, articles, essays, research reports, liturgy, poems, prayers, plays, short stories, novels, movies, documentaries, art exhibit anouncements, performances. This would include material produced for both the blog and other purposes.
- Fundraising sources: announcements of grants, descriptions of foundations, list of up-coming fundraising deadlines
- Volunteer opportunities: opportunities to contribute to working groups
- Training opportunities: courses for activists, artists, etc. – to empower people towards self-expression
- Research resources: donated subscriptions to on-line research resources?
Facilitate the creation of working groups:
- Project management tools – to support scheduling, organization
- Collaborative document creation, joint working papers. One option that could be used for this purpose might be a project wikis or even subpages in a common wiki. The main issue would be how to move the joint document from the wiki to a published forum, either the IfSheCryOut blog or some other resource.
- Rich group communication: emails, mailing list, newsletters, blog, internal threaded discussion
- Group portfolio: same as user portfolio, but with option to consolidate/use excerpts from user portfolios.
- Access to polling and petition software – could a project/working group have a joint account for this purpose?
- Public face on-line for working groups: How could we support this via websites and social networking:
- Creation of websites – could we configure our website to have sub-areas for projects? Would project directories have to be manually created? Or could these be scripted? Would the sites need privacy (not really possible on a shared server – we’d probably need either a virtual server or a dedicated server)
- Social networking support: Links to facebook or yahoo groups, project RSS feeds, project Twitter feeds, other?
