twitter and tweeting

I've recently been exploring twitter, after previously dismissing it as a waste of time ... without trying it! 

What I've discovered, is instant access to a wealth of views and opinions of people and organisations I'm interested in.  I see it as yet another useful technology that can provide access to many areas & issues. It is a great tool for uncovering and/or discovering links to myriad rich information and resources. As a social worker that's important for me.

Right now I'm following 53 people/organisations; these are diverse and include: Michael Moore, Stephen Fry, Tanya Plibersek, Penny Wong, Phillip Adams, Paul Kelly, Bruce Springsteen, Geraldine Doogue, Billy Bragg, Jane Hutcheon, GetUp!, Australian Marriage Equality, Doctors w/o borders, Bravehearts Inc, New York Times, The Guardian, Rural Mental Health, UNICEF, WHO, National Rural Women's Coalition, Creative Arts Practice, Mental Health Australia, RFWA, ANZ Mental Health Association, beyondblue,  West Coast Eagles, Lonely Planet, Dalai Lama, Bob Brown Foundation,  ABC Q&A.

Simply go to: http://twitter.com/ and you'll be directed to Sign in to Twitter. 

My twitter address is: @LanieP

One of my favourite tweeters right now is Michael Moore; I'm interested in his ongoing campaign to facilitate change to the gun laws in the USA. I've been interested in MM as a documentary maker for a long time.

See: http://www.michaelmoore.com/

I found this quote in his new book and it really resonated with me.

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit ... so alone

“Subdivisions”  Rush / Neil Peart

lanie

new year quotes

Twenty years from now 

you will be more disappointed 

by the things that you didn’t do 

than by the ones you did do. 

So throw off the bowlines. 

Sail away from the safe harbour. 

Catch the trade winds in your sails. 

Explore. Dream. Discover.

 Mark Twain

We spend January 1 
walking through our lives, room by room, 

drawing up a list of work to be done, 

cracks to be patched. 

Maybe this year, to balance the list, 

we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives ... 

not looking for flaws, but for potential.

Ellen Goodman

HAPPY NEW YEAR

lanie

Interesting article

"Expanding to fit the (blog)space: Enhancing social work education through online technologies"

Susan Young - Social Work and Social Policy

The University of Western Australia

Leitha Delves - Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Multimedia Centre

The University of Western Australia

Find the paper at:

www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/auckland09/procs/young.pdf

women and girls employment ad 1969

I found a newspaper from 20 July 1969. 

I'd kept it because of the moon landing.

The newspaper was the Daily News, printed each afternoon in Perth, before the days of "instant access" to news and information.
There was also a morning newspaper.

narrative notes

Recently when tidying up my resources, came across some notes I made at some narrative training at the Dulwich Centre a couple of years ago. I believe that I intended to print these out and keep them close by in practice. I'd like to share some of my notes:

• Active listening is not enough: move people to places of change and be accountable.
• Discover what is not known and familiar.
• The ideas of "norms" can be diminishing: who established them anyway?
• Consider the politics of people's lives: culture, gender, class... away from the individual.
• A good story is about a number of events strung together over time.
• Research different stories other than the dominant story.
• Look at "the problem" rather than be defined by /as "the problem."
• Relationships are multi-storied.
• When people come to us "in consultation," they come with or are accompanied by problem-saturated stories.
• Be a supportive audience rather than empathic.
• Empathic responses come from "the expert."
• Be invitational rather than interpretive.
• Be curious & inquisitive!

Ah, this continues to be inspiring stuff for me and keeps me alert to the way I try to work with people.

lanie

human rights day

Human Rights Day – 10^th December 2012

Human Rights Day presents an opportunity, every year, to celebrate human rights, highlight a specific issue, and advocate for the full enjoyment of all human rights by everyone everywhere.

This year, the spotlight is on the rights of all people — women, youth, minorities, persons with disabilities, indigenous people, the poor and marginalized — to make their voices heard in se human rights — the rights to freedom of opinion and expression, to peaceful assembly and association, and to take part in government (articles 19, 20 and 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) have been at the centre of the historic changes in the Arab world over the past two years, in which millions have taken to the streets to demand change. In other parts of the world, the “99%” made their voices heard through the global Occupy movement protesting economic, political and social inequality.

Make your voice count!

Share your thoughts about the right to participate in public life and political decision-making, using #VoiceCount.

Take part in a series of four Goolge+ Hangouts between 22 November and 10 December to engage with senior UN officials and leading experts on the rights of minorities, persons with disabilities, the impact of business on human rights, and beyond.

And, starting on 1 December, send us your questions using#AskRights. Selected questions will be answered by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, at a Human Rights Day Google+ Hangout.

http://www.un.org/en/events/humanrightsday/

http://humanrights.gov.au/

Disability

www.idpwd.com.au