Many thanks to Nicholas Laughlin from Trinidad and Tobago and Joan Razafimaharo from Montreal, Canada for leaving comments on the last batch of featured Rising Voices posts. I hope that more of you will leave comments of encouragement in this week’s collection of four posts. If, for some reason, you need to be convinced that [...]

The most difficult challenge I’ve encountered so far with Rising Voices hasn’t been training new communities with little online experience how to effectively use new media tools like blogs, podcasts and video- and photo-sharing sites. Nope … that has turned out to be surprisingly easy. In fact, many of the Rising Voices participants like Taslima [...]

Below is this week’s newsletter to the Rising Voices mailing list. I’m so happy with the progress that Rising Voices has made, however, that I want to share it here as well. I’ll be publishing photos from last night’s event soon.
I write today’s newsletter after what has been, without any doubt, the most satisfying week [...]