AdoptCLOUD

When  we shared this awesome   post ,  it was November.  At last, the time has come:  The Italian Manifesto for all Italian Adoptees is here! In 2020 Angela Tucker , the leading Adoptee Voice in the USA launched her Adoptee Manifesto .   During the year I've reached out and asked for her collaboration to realize the first AdoptCloud Project: a translated version of the #adopteemanifesto in Italian . Il manifesto di un* adottiv* Ph. credit: Angela Tucker, Design: Alissa Edel (Translation in Italian by Alessia Petrolito) Open and agender, the manifests reunite adoptee's legitimate rights and desires at once. Beyond grouping, this is about building inner peace and a sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves. As adoptees, we can gain a voice and a community. Angela's work does it for the USA, and I hope that this will help more & more Italian adoptees to gain awareness -  we are not just a story, our story, but we are who we are! I'm de...

On Pxhere ( https://bit.ly/2YEjCzN ) Adoptees, how many of you, us, use social media? And how many of us are on Facebook?! Soooo many! Thanks to the   Social Media Marketing Specialization Course  offered by  Northwestern University  through  Coursera ,  I was able to learn more about social media, how they function, how they can be used, etc.  Throughout the MOOC(s) of course, Professor Randy Hlavac taught us that Virtual communities are generated by either passion or trigger event, and  can be found at the bottom of a social media pyramid (see picture).  Passion communities  are looking for new trends and gossip. They like to talk to their peers and express their opinion. The   tr igger event com munities  are looking for information and  trustworthy experts  to find answers to their questions.  Any virtual community is structured in three elements: members, influencers and experts - which ...

Being an Italian adoptee, I realised our community is fragmented and isolated. Small groups of Italian adoptees are connected online and forming virtual communities. Italian reports estimated that over 69.000 children adoptees entered Italy to be  between 1993 and 2019. T he number of adoptions that occurred before 1993 is uncertain  ( I was born and adopted  in 1990);  there several adult adoptees adopted prior 1989 , so it is possible that estimate adoptee population in Italy is even large. Can you imagine how many of us are out there?   Wouldn't be amazing to be all linked   transnationally  and to breach the language barrier by connecting -  united as a country -  with other networks led by adoptees?! Adoptees in Italy aren't connected to fellow adoptees worldwide* - I want to make that happen! This is the  AdoptCloud 's blog mission, to  bridge and connect  Italian adoptees within the country ...