Oh, climate change. Oh, the UN. A giant concept and a giant organization, both with limited access points for the public, guaranteed to make you feel small, disempowered and unheard. Well, it’s that time of year again: it’s the UN Climate Change Conference, and this year it’s happening in Poland!

Kidding. That’s an excerpt from last year’s post about the UN Climate Change conference, when we did a case study of the Polish website (and Avaaz). It’s just that, when it comes to climate change and making UN information accessible, so little has changed since last year that everything’s feeling, well, a little recycled.

Over the last two months, I’ve been settling into my new job at Social Signal, a social media firm based in Vancouver, BC. I’m their new social media strategist! (Remember when we blogged in 2008 about how we wished that job existed? Turns out it does…)

Some updates on stories we've been following at Social Ch@nge:

Google's Evil Meter:

To paraphrase Britt Bravo, Changebloggers are people who are using online resources to raise awareness, build community and facilitate everyone's taking action to make the world a better place. Qui Diaz originally posted the 3 questions that set off the Changeblogging meme and we've reposted them below with our responses - they look easy to answer, don't they?

Well, maybe it's that we're a brother and sister writing this blog. But it took us a long time to formulate a response. I wanted very badly to be able to write "I care about human rights, I write a blog about human rights, here are three ways you can make a difference and support - you guessed it - human rights."