There are hundreds of social bookmarking sites on the internet which you’d be forgiven for thinking were purpose designed to spread the word of activism organisations like ours.

Here’s a guide for those of you not “up” on the world of so-called Web 2.0, on how easy and quick it can be to send hundreds, if not thousands of eyes and ears our way, to inform and educate the world about whistle-blower’s concerns, individual cases and all issues surrounding OSCWatch.org’s aims.

Digg.com is the cool kid on the block when it comes to social bookmarking. Simply put, new stories submitted to the site, which receive the most diggs from the community, make it to the front page and the attention of millions.

If OSCwatch.org’s readers and those committed to the cause sign-up for a free digg.com account, they can promote new blog entries on the front news page, which carry the digg.com button, and raise the profile of the whole of the rest of the site, including the talk-back forum to a new audience.

If Digg is the rebellious twenty-something with equal time for comedy clips of skateboarders falling crotch-first into the bushes, Reddit.com is the responsible thirty-something with an eye on more serious politics and opinion.

Registering for a free account on Reddit works, in terms of promoting a story to the front page and attracting thousands of readers, much in the same way as digg. The difference is that the comments system used on Reddit is more likely to attract (mostly) sensible discourse and, for other reasons besides - such as a majority of left-leaning readers - tends to be a better site to get your site known on, if we want repeat traffic and daily interest from around the rest of the blog-o-sphere.

Delicious.com (also known as del.icio.us) is perhaps the easiest way for us to share stories of interest. Simply by bookmarking a site you either run yourself and want to promote, or a page from a newspaper article on-line you want to share with other OSCWatch.org readers, one click of the special delicious.com button in your browsers toolbar is all it takes.

In the side panel of this site, there is an RSS feed reader linked to any stories on delicious.com which have been tagged with the word “oscwatch”. By submitting pages and sites you find around the internet to your own delicious.com account and tagging them with “oscwatch” that site will appear on the front page of oscwatch.org within minutes.

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