Featured resource practitioners are an important part of creating a successful online dialogue!  The featured resource practitioners together help to lead each online dialogue by making a commitment to add comments to the dialogue each day.  The featured resource practitioners often have some experience or knowledge of the topic being discussed in the dialogue. 

Are you interested in joining our growing network of over 300 dialogue featured resource practitioners?  Please read the information below to learn about what commitment and expectations for participants.

Let's start with a reminder of the objectives of each dialogue.  We expect that each featured resource practitioners (and other dialogue participants) will:

1. Share: Participants will share their own approaches (“tactics”) and tools used in their own work so that others may learn.
2. Learn: Participants will learn new approaches (“tactics”) and new tools to apply to their work.
3. Build a network: Participants will meet new people doing similar work that they can someday contact as a resource.

What would the dialogue process require from you?

If you agree to participate in a Tactical Dialogue as a featured resource practitioner (and we hope that you do!), these are the steps that are required from you:

1.  Join the New Tactics Online Community (on our website)

The first step in the dialogue participation process: Join the New Tactics on-line community so you can post comments in any dialogue. Click on “Create new account” in the upper right-hand corner of your computer screen to join.

For help, see our FAQ on how to register - http://www.newtactics.org/en/node/1803

Please add a short bio (around 200 words) to the ‘biography’ on your user account, and upload an image to your account (under edit). 

2.    Commitment of “featured resource practitioners” to post comments

We ask our “featured resource practitioners” to make two posts per day during the dialogue dates. We generally encourage you to check-in on the dialogue twice a day - logging on to the New Tactics website in the morning and late afternoon or evening depending on your internet access situation. We also understand that sometimes logging in twice per day just isn’t possible – so we ask you to make both your comments at the same time. This level of participation results in at least fourteen comments over the course of the week. These can include your own new comment, adding a response to a comment made by another participant, adding a resource, or posing a question.

Team Participation: We also encourage organizations or agencies to join as a “team”. If you have a “team” of people interested, the “team” will also be responsible for at least two posts per day but you can arrange among yourselves how you decide to make these posts. This opportunity is fun, easy and gives a chance for a number of people to share their experiences.

Note: If you decide you are not interested in being one of the “featured resource practitioners” but would like to participate in the dialogue, we greatly welcome you to do so. All you need to do is join the New Tactics website as an on-line community member. 

3.  Conference call participation (optional)

New Tactics has also invited our featured resource practitioners to participate in a one-hour conference call just prior to the opening of the dialogue. We arrange a date and time, usually a day or two prior to the dialogue, that can best accommodate as many of our featured resource practitioners as possible. This call gives you an opportunity to “meet” the other resource people who are able to attend the call. We have always made an effort to include as many as possible – but with the vast time zone differences, we know this can sometimes be difficult to achieve. The feedback from our resource practitioners regarding their participation in this call has been extremely positive.

If you are interested in helping to lead one of our online dialogues by participating as a 'featured resource practitioner' please contact us!

New Tactics hosts group spaces for its online community members. These group spaces can be used for more indepth collaboration, coordination and communication among human rights practitioners. Here are some examples of how New Tactics groups have been utilized:

• Participants in a training use a New Tactics group to keep in contact with each other
• Participants in a dialogue use a group to continue sharing ideas and resources
• A network of human rights defenders use a group to share ideas with each other
• A campaign uses a group to share updates and documents with its members
• An educator uses a group to stay connected to her students
• Students use a group to collaborate online

Once you join a New Tactics online group, you can share information in several different ways:

• You can begin and join group dialogues
• You can share documents, spreadsheets, etc
• You can share images and links to videos
• You can share links to resources, websites, etc
• You can start and add to a group wiki

For a visual introduction to what you can do in a New Tactics group, see our presentation on Prezi.

To join a group, you must be a New Tactics online community member, and you must be logged-in (register or log-in in the top right corner of the website). Once you are logged-in, click on the 'Groups' link under 'Online Community Links' on the right sidebar -------------------------->

You will see a directory of all of the groups in our online community. Scroll down until you find a group you want to join.  Click on 'Join' or 'Request membership' next to the name of the group.

For a visual guide, watch our presentation on how to join a group on Prezi.

Thanks to Google, you have the ability to translate this website into one of several different languages. In the box below, choose the language that you would like to translate the website into. You will then be able to navigate throughout the website in the language you have chosen.

Please note that you will not be able to translate external documents or websites.

Each person that is a member of the New Tactics website has the ability to contact one another through this website. Here are the steps that you can take to contact a community member directly:

1. Find the member.  You may have already found the community member that you would like to contact from a dialogue, or a blog entry, or any other piece of content from the website. If this is the case, move on to step 2 below.  If you are looking for a member that you would like to contact, take a look at our member directory.  Here you can search for members by several categories including country, organization, expertise / interest, and username.
2. Click on the username (this is a hyper link, highlighted in blue). You will find this hyperlinked username if this member is the author of any content on the website, including comments or blog entries. This will bring you to the biography page of this member.  On this biography page, you have several different tabs to choose from including 'view', 'biography', and 'contact'.
3. Click on the 'Contact' tab at the top of the page (under username).
4. Type your message and click the button that reads "Send e-mail".

Your message will be sent as an email from the website, and will be received as an email by the recipient.  We have created the contact process in this way so that those would prefer to stay annonymous have the ability to do so and still be able to accept contact emails from community members. A member does not need to know another member's email address in order to contact them! Nor does one need to know the name of the community member - the only necessary piece of information is a username.

Participating in our online dialogues is easy! Any New Tactics community member can participate. Not a member? You can join anytime! See our FAQ on how to log-in and register.

Follow these steps to participate in a New Tactics online dialogue:

1. Log-in to the New Tactics website.

2. Go to the dialogue page.

You can go to a featured online dialogue (like the example below) or you could go to our past dialogues by clicking on the 'Join the Dialogue' link in the main navigation bar.

3. When you are on the dialogue page, find a discussion thread and click on the title.

4. You can participate in the dialogue by adding a comment to a discussion thread.  To add a comment, you can either:

• Add a new comment to the discussion thread (towards the top of the discussion thread) --> click on 'Add new comment'
• Reply to an existing comment --> click on 'Reply'
• Reply to an existing comment by quoting the author --> click on 'Quote'

5. When you are finished adding your comment, click 'Save'!

Now that you know how to participate in our online dialogues - add your own experiences, ideas, challenges and stories to our dialogues!

To see more information on how to participate in a dialogue, watch this detailed online presentation on SlideShare.

To join the New Tactics online community, all you need to do is create an account on our website! Once you have an account, you will be able to create content (blog posts, comments in dialogues, testimonials, contact users, etc).

Not sure how to create an account or confused about how to log-in to the website? Follow these steps:

1. Click on the 'Login/Register' link in the top right corner of the website.

2. Enter your 'Login' information (if you have it).

3. If you have an account, but forgot the password, click on the 'Request new password' tab.

4. If you have not created an account yet, click on the 'Create new account' tab.

5. Fill out the registration form...

6. Now that you have created your new account, check your email for a message from New Tactics.

7. Click on the link in the email message, and create a password for your New Tactics account. Then click 'Save.'

That's it! Welcome to the New Tactics online community!

The New Tactics Community is designed to be a place for human rights advocates around the world to gather, share thoughts and reflections, hold discussions, and collaborate with others.  Some content may be designated as private by the author (allowing specific groups to view the content, but not all members or the general public).  To respect this privacy, and to maintain the New Tactics Community as a positive environment for interaction with (and respect for) others, membership registration is free but required to participate fully.

Get involved with human rights advocates around the world! Meet and interact with activists, educators, students, and other practitioners. Share ideas and seek feedback, join discussions and collaborate with colleagues.

Get involved with human rights advocates around the world! Meet and interact with activists, educators, students, and other practitioners. Share ideas and seek feedback, join discussions and collaborate with colleagues.

The New Tactics community-based website is an expansion on the resources available through the New Tactics in Human Rights project. In addition to training exercises and tools for strategic thinking and planning, a workbook for practitioners, and materials from several workshops, the New Tactics website focuses on tactic case examples as short descriptions in the Tactics Database, and in-depth case studies as Tactical Notebooks, which provide a detailed look at how a tactic was implemented, and the challenges that were faced along the way.

New interactive features added to the website allow for members to network with each other and seek or give feedback on their activities as human rights advocates. By joining the New Tactics Community, you will gain ways of interacting with others. These include participation in the new dialogues area, professional networking with the member directory, and the ability to join groups. Membership in the website is free and open to anyone interested in sharing ideas relating to human rights as well collaborating with others in a respectful manner. Members will be able to work privately within the community or seek interaction with a broader audience.

Each member of the website will have the opportunity to post to a blog (an online journal or “soapbox”). This is a place to announce plans, campaigns or events as well as share reflections or opinions with the community. The author may choose to share each blog post with the public, or select various audiences within the New Tactics community. Only members of the community will be able to post comments to blogs and other content.

The dialogues area is a collection of community member blogs and serves as a forum to ask questions and participate in dialogue about various issues surrounding human rights and advocacy. Members may participate in dialogues on the website or by “subscribing” to a topic as an email list.

Members of the New Tactics community may also organize themselves into groups based on any area of shared interest. For example, groups can be created for members in a geographical location, attending an event or workshop, or concerned with an issue. Members of a group may post blog entries or hold discussions privately, raise and address issues, and report to each other on events or presentations.

Additional benefits of membership include networking and updates. Members may network with each other by joining or creating new groups, and by creating short biographies of themselves, which are then listed in a members directory. Members may also receive email messages when new blog entries or discussion topics are posted to one of their groups.

Public users (who have not logged in as members) of the New Tactics website will be allowed to read blogs and discussions as indicated by the author, but will not be permitted to post comments or read items intended just for other community members. Public users will have no access to the members directory.

Users may login or register from any page on the New Tactics website (click on “Create new account”). New members will be asked to confirm their email address and will be sent a message containing information on logging in.