{"id":3506,"date":"2013-11-06T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soc.ba\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2013-11-06T11:59:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T11:59:18","slug":"soc-at-the-creative-forces-conference-empowering-people-ideas-worth-spreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/soc-at-the-creative-forces-conference-empowering-people-ideas-worth-spreading\/","title":{"rendered":"SOC at the Creative Forces Conference: Empowering People &#8211; Ideas Worth Spreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive  alignleft\" alt=\"creative forces logo\" src=\"http:\/\/soc.ba\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/creative-forces-logo-300x257.jpg\" \/>The organization \u201cCivil Rights Defenders\u201d held a conference entitled <em>Creative Forces: Empowering People &#8211; Ideas Worth Spreading.<\/em> It took place in Pr\u017eno, Montenegro, and lasted six days, from October 22-27, 2013. The organizers of the conference came from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. Dina Vili\u0107 and Latifa Imamovi\u0107 from Sarajevo Open Center participated.<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\">The goal of the conference was to train people in optimal methods of preparing campaigns and projects, cultivating a public image, gaining members, and strengthening the community in which they work. A lot of attention was devoted to social media, the strongest tool for lobbying and advocacy. World-famous journalist and strategic media consultant David Brewer gave lessons on social media, while Ruben Brunsveld from the Stockholm Institute for Public Speaking offered a course on communication strategies. He gave special attention to methods of connecting to a target group, whether they be potential donors or a community of people to be strengthened.<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\">Each organization had the task of writing a speech and presenting their idea in front of everyone. Ma\u0161a Milutinovi\u0107 and Ivan \u0110uri\u0107 from the Youth Initiative for Human Rights spoke about how to make big initiatives happen with a small budget. Chris Michael, a producer and speaker for human rights, gave a lesson about the tactics and methodology of using video as a tool for advocacy. Then each organization had to make a video campaign lasting a few minutes.<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\">Sre\u0107ko \u0160ekelji\u0107 explained how to take an idea and turn it into a concrete, effective project. Then each organization was tasked with presenting their idea concretely, concisely, and consistently. Afterwards, Heda Krausz Sjorgen, a playwright and producer from Sweden, spoke about her project <em>SEVEN.<\/em> It is a documentary drama about seven strong, unwavering women read on stage by successful women around the world.<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\">One more important tool was presented: the <em>Ushahidi Open Source Project. Ushahidi,<\/em> which means <em>testimony <\/em>in Swahili, is a website that was originally developed to map reports of violence in Kenya. The site has grown into a platform that can be used worldwide as an interactive mapping tool.<\/p> <p>On the first day of the conference, each organization had to present the idea on which it wanted to work. Over the next six days the idea developed into a project which was then presented to everyone and orally assessed.<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organization \u201cCivil Rights Defenders\u201d held a conference entitled Creative Forces: Empowering People &#8211; Ideas Worth Spreading. It took place in Pr\u017eno, Montenegro, and lasted six days, from October 22-27, 2013. The organizers of the conference came from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. Dina Vili\u0107 and Latifa Imamovi\u0107 from Sarajevo Open Center participated. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/soc-at-the-creative-forces-conference-empowering-people-ideas-worth-spreading\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/creative-forces-logo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}