On June 5 and 6, Euforic and CONCORD, two European networks for NGOs, organised a conference about ‘Communicating European Development Efforts’, in Brussels. The conference experimented with a weblog, as the central online space where information can be found. Several blogposts are written about the sessions, including short video clips, and photos and the presentations are uploaded using blip.tv for videos, a flickr group for photos and slideshare for presentations. You can have a look at the blog here. Though a small team was specifically responsible for the blog, participants could blog about the conference too, and could upload their pictures too (and were stimulated to do so).

If we would not use web2.0 tools, the information would probably not be available till much later. Now, the conversations and atmosphere of the conference is accessible for anybody with access to the net. Some conferences remain a black hole for people who have not been there, but for this case, the information is out there for all to access. This, in my opinion, gives a huge opportunity to, for instance, sister NGOs and NGO networks in the south and in other continents to learn from the conversations in this conference. They will definitely encounter similar challenges. On the other hand, people are not yet used to reading blogs and writing on blogs, so we can still make a big step in introducing these web2.0 tools and changing the habits of people, so that they can activity look for the information that’s interesting for their daily work.

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