Thanks to everyone who took part in the Shell webchat. We’ll be analysing Shell’s responses over the next few days, so watch this space!

If you were involved, please add your thoughts as a comment below.

The background

Thanks to you, and the hundreds of messages you sent to Shell via Twitter, we got them listening.

Shell agreed to host a webchat on their site Shell Dialogues about the Niger Delta. We took this opportunity to ask tough questions about Shell’s human rights and environmental practices in the Niger Delta.

We pulled together a bunch of information, from key facts all the way through to our full report to help you ask some hard questions, like “Will Shell commit to cleaning up all oil spills in the Delta?‘

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NEW: 20 questions Shell won’t answer (DOC)

Find out more about our campaign

The observant amongst you may have noticed the snazzy new blue button that’s sitting on your homepage, for those that haven’t, say hello to Facebook Connect.

This is something we’ve been really excited about adding to Protect The Human for a while now, and are really glad it’s finally here. What it means for you is that it’s even easier to share the great work you’re doing for human rights every time you take an action on the site.

It’s easy to get started – all you need to do is sign in to Protect The Human and connect to Facebook by hitting the blue button. From here you can start inviting your friends to join and then, when you take an action, you can post it to your Facebook profile, so all your friends know you’re doing good things, and hopefully will be encouraged to join you!

We’re excited because it gives Protect The Human the chance to reach many more people, and for a site that’s all about protecting human rights and improving other people’s lives through the actions of many, well, we think that’s a pretty great thing.

If you have any problems getting set up, let us know as there might still be a few creases left to iron out and we’d love to hear what you think!

You might notice a few changes have appeared on Protect The Human today. We’ve given our homepage a bit of a face lift to make it easier for you to find the things you’re looking for.

Your new homepage is really all about you; it remembers the last action you took and suggests new ones that you might like to take next. “But how do you know!?‘ you may ask, well it’s simple, all you have to do is fill out your profile page (which is now easily accessible from the top left of the homepage): Add some campaigns and areas of interest and voilà! You’re well on your way to a new, personal Protect The Human experience!

We’ve also added a few other new things based on how you’ve been using the site. For instance, we noticed that a lot of you like to take actions that can make an immediate difference to an individual in a desperate situation.

For instance, thousands of you took action for Troy Davis as he faced the threat of an imminent execution. In future, to make sure you know when you need to act in a case where we may only have days, or even hours, to make a difference, we’ve added an urgent action alert bar that will appear at the top of every page. Hopefully this will help you use whatever time you have to make the biggest impact for human rights.

This isn’t the end of our improvements to Protect the Human and we’d love to hear what you think about the new design; what do you like, what don’t you like and what features do you still want to see implemented? Let us know and we’ll see what we can do!