New Media Awards 2008

Dan Hardie

http://danhardie.wordpress.com/

Nominated in Campaign for change category.

Dan Hardie, commodities researcher and part-time soldier -- and the blogger who organised the "We can't turn them away" campaign to make special asylum arrangements for Iraqi civilians under threat for having worked with British forces.

1 nomination from readers

  • Dan used his blog in an innovative way: instead of whining or ranting about the issue in question, he actually did something about it. Or, more accurately, he encouraged others to do something about it: Dan orchestrated, via his blog, a mass MP-pestering that led to a meeting in Portcullis House and an Early Day Motion in Parliament.

    Again, attendees had learned of the event through a network of co-operating bloggers -- and many of them had never been involved in any kind of activism.

    The goals of this campaign have yet to be achieved, but nevertheless Dan is a credit to the blogosphere.

    Nominated by Christopher White, 10 April 2008

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