March 30, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
Beth’s Blog, which covers technology issues that affect nonprofit groups, has taken a lead role in promoting today’s Stop Cyberbullying Day.
The author, Beth Kanter, a technology consultant, is among a group of bloggers who have started a campaign to end abusive online comments after learning that a fellow blogger canceled plans to deliver a workshop after she was the victim of violent and sexual threats.
“This issue is so massive that it is going to take an ongoing effort from many different angles—educating young people with help from teachers and parents as well as everyone who is using the Internet now—to model good behavior and continue the dialogue around this,” Ms. Kanter writes.
Another nonprofit-technology blog, The Bamboo Project, says the problem goes way beyond “cyberbullying.” “It’s about, at the very least, rampant sexism,” writes the author, Michele Roy Martin, an organizational consultant and staff trainer for nonprofit groups.
She says the focus on blog nastiness “sidetracks the conversation into fearmongering about the Web, rather than focusing on the fact that the Web is just an extension of the way that women are treated in all parts of society.”
Have you experienced “cyberbullying” on blogs that you operate or read? What do you think should be done about it? Click on the comments link below this posting to share your thoughts.
