CIVICUS Toolkits

• Writing Effectively & Powerfully (Word) or (PDF)
• Writings Within Your Organisation (Word) or (PDF)
• Producing Your Own Media (Word) or (PDF)
• Handling the Media (Word) or (PDF)
• Promoting Your Organisation (Word) or (PDF)
• Internal Communication Toolkit (Word) or (PDF)

Toolkits from other organisations

Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
Reporters Without Borders
In this handbook (available in English, French, Chinese, Arabic and Persian) experts and bloggers from all over the world advise Internet users, especially those in repressive countries, how to set up their own blogs and get them known, while preserving their personal anonymity. Create your own blog, remain anonymous and get round censorship! Download the handbook by visiting www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542

Involving the Community: A Guide to Participatory Development Communication
This guide introduces participatory development communication concepts, discusses the effective two-way communication approaches and presents a methodology to plan, develop, and evaluate effective communication strategies. http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty/rc/ItemDetail.do~1011834~intcmp=00001

ICT Policy: A Beginner's Handbook
Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
This handbook, now available online, is for people who want orientation about information and communications technology (ICT) and internet policies, who want to understand how the internet and markets work, the background on policy and regulation, and what's at stake for ordinary citizens. To view the guide, visit http://rights.apc.org/handbook

Knowledge Share Toolkit
This draft kit contains tools designed to make it easier to benefit from the collective experience, knowledge and expertise of your peers, co-workers and partners. The knowledge sharing techniques described in this toolkit are a selection of Knowledge Share (KS) tools that are simple, quick, and proven to be effective methods for providing and promoting open, transparent discussion on topics, issues, activities and projects, and can be effectively used as training/facilitation techniques for workshops. To download the toolkit, see http://tinyurl.com/4l5k3.