To be social active!
With all Internet development in Latvia, some days ago I trough about meaning of “social activism“. If it would be connected with Internet, we could say it means to post comments on blogs and about happenings around (for example, in news). It become more easier when You have Your own blog (in Latvia, for example, free blog service on nee.lv). In that case people can spread their attitude and/or opinion. It can be done alone or cooperating, for example, get involved in some non-governmental organization (NGO), like creative group MYSTYLe art or some other. In Internet it`s like separated community. There is fewer Internet accessibility, but activities are more cruel about information, because Internet let You save anonymity, but out-of-Internet, people have to identify yourself with your own words.I have very often answer on questions like “Why You are in this (MYSTYLe art) organization” or any other non-profit project. Answer is simple: I like what I’m doing. NGO’s are using blog(~s) as a tool and communication channel in the same time.I’m so happy, when I see that some organization is using blog as report of activity. Right now in my RSS reader are some feeds from other organizations blog posts. Currently it’s just official information, which appears as copy-paste of press releases or description of projects (summary or full). Hope, that in near future I’ll coax MYSTYLe art to write in blog style :P It’s in process for now (like out web). From other latvian NGO’s I liked JASMA activities in LiveJournal.com, where they have blog. Of course, it’s as well little bit formal, but at least looks more sprightly.
Another project with youth participation is “jaunieši vēro” (youth is watching), where they have blog on Blogger.com. For me it look like journal more, than blog (*?). Content, at least for me, is little bit boring, because it’s oriented to regional youth and local municipality, where youth are watching how they are working. But posts are more alive and emotional as others which I have saw.In posts youngsters are writing from what deputy were eating in lunch till evaluation of pappier work. Something similar had LJP with Saeima (Parliament of Latvia) where young people, most under 21, were judged speech of MP’s.
PS This is not direct translation of my post in latvian. This short version adapted for English blog.
This is republished from old blog.
Published on
July 2, 2008 in
Info and Social life.
Tags: Baltic States, blog, e-art, e-art.lv, Europe, Internet content specialist, Latvia, Marketing, rolandinsh, rolandinsh.lv, Travel, work, Youth.
My name is Rolands Umbrovskis. I’m from* Latvia. This will be my blog in English. I’m periodically writing blog in Latvian since 2004, but most often since October 2007, when I left my job in Marketing company and started as freelancer. Since then I had a lot of time to write and read blogs. So restarted to do it myself. Now I want to try also in English.
Why I restarted to write? Just had more time and I wanted to have more experience in Internet marketing. So since November 2007 I made some experiments with my web pages. Currently I have little list of domains in different fields which are registered under my name.
So here they are: (in order I made them)
- e-art.lv – for my projects and creative experiments. Currently under “e-art.lv” creating some webprojects and support for Latvian youth organizations;
- www.rolandinsh.lv – my homepage and domain in Latvian;
- kurjers.lv – courier/messenger service list of Baltic states;
- guerrilla.lv and guerrillas.lv – currently unused. Saved for future;
- and now rolandinsh.com for English speaking people;
- Currently administrating mystyleart.lv and 2015.lv (both are for “creative group MYSTYLe art“);
- …and some others for some companies.
What I’ll be writing here about?
At first I want to say that I’m not the only one who is and will write about Happenings in Latvia. Some weeks ago I noticed, that one of Latvian most popular blog onkulis.com also started to write in English.
I’ll be writing about myself like Onkulis and some creative and cultural activities from Latvia and Baltic States. Beside that, another topic will be “marketing“, because I’m currently working as marketing manager and Internet content specialist in international company. I’ll repost my best articles (IMHO) from Latvian blog. And of course about work and daily life, like my volunteer works and projects (commercial and non-profit).
So it become, that here You will read about:
- Latvia
- Baltic States and Europe
- Youth
- Marketing
- My work
- My travels
I’ll not try to limit myself only to these topics, but these were most published in my Latvian blog.
About travels. Actualy this post was written during my business trip in Vilnius.
*thanks to Undine
