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March 30, 2006
Protests organized on MySpace
According to Boing Boing, the recent LA student immigration protests have been organized on MySpace. The revolution will be smartmobbed? Update: Here’s danah boyd on the same topic. Check her next post too, in which MySpace inadvertantly takes down the...(See full entry.)
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March 1, 2005
Introduction to Activism on the Internet
Quoting from Introduction to Activism on the Internet: John of Social Design Notes has built an excellent resource in “An Introduction to Activism on the Internet”, touching on key issues like the role of geography and gender in access, privacy...(See full entry.)
November 16, 2004
The Nation notices the rise of open-source politics
In The Rise of Open-Source Politics, Micah L. Sifry discusses the influence of the new grassroots technologists on the past year's campaign: Josh Koenig, one of the twenty-somethings who cut their teeth at the Dean campaign and a co-founder of...(See full entry.)
November 15, 2004
MacKinnon proposes BloggerCorps
in RConversation: Blogger Corps?, Rebecca MacKinnon writes: In the final wrap-up session of Bloggercon III, I suggested that socially conscious members of the blogging community (of all political persuasions) might want to organize a "Blogger Corps." Through it, bloggers could...(See full entry.)
November 8, 2004
Did Bush beat Kerry in the spammer war?
In How BC04 made better use of its email list, Daily Kos points to Bush vs. Kerry: Email Newsletters Rated, usability maven Jakob Nielsen's "interesting analysis" in his Alertbox web column: Although I don't actually claim that Bush won because...(See full entry.)
October 26, 2004
Lessons learned from the Sinclair boycott
Jon Stahl looks at the success of the online campaign to punish the Sinclair TV network for planning to make its affiliates air an anti-Kerry film under the rubric of news (A new network takes on an old one... and...(See full entry.)
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October 22, 2004
They're discussing this book on the Omidyar Network
Aldon Hynes, who reviewed my book at Amazon and on his Orient Lodge weblog also started a discussion about the book in the book club group of the Omidyar Network. Soon afterward, Marnie Webb from CompuMentor and Tech Soup and...(See full entry.)
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October 20, 2004
Social commons headed for tragedy?
Anil Dash (An unkind community) wonders if the tenor of (at least) the political blogosphere has reached a point of no return in terms of loss of civility and mob behavior (as when a popular political blogger "sics" his readers...(See full entry.)
October 14, 2004
The net taking on TV
Matthew Yglesias takes a look at the organizing effort from the left blogosphere to oppose the Sinclair TV network's plans to air an anti-Kerry film on the eve of the election. These activities aren't limited to one ideological camp. The...(See full entry.)
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October 6, 2004
Astroturfing the flak-catchers
Women's-right website Failure is Impossible offers a primer for countering astroturf letters- to- the- editor campaigns (Fight Back Against Killer Astroturf). The page explains how repetition of boilerplate language in letters to the editor of newspapers can be detected through...(See full entry.)
October 4, 2004
One million acts of kindness
Somewhat reminiscent of the Hollywood movie of a few years ago called Pay It Forward, One Million Acts describes itself as ... an event that is driven by the Urban Leadership Foundation (ULF), with the goal of funding job training...(See full entry.)
October 3, 2004
Interesting post on Daily Kos about community
Daily Kos (a Dem-friendly political community) has been going through some growing pains over the last few weeks, triggered in part by the departure of Theoria, a popular and well-established poster. dKos founder Markos Moulitsas has put up an interesting...(See full entry.)
September 8, 2004
TxTMOB powered protests at the RNC
Patrick Di Justo writes about TxTMOB in the New York Times (Protests Powered by Cellphone: As thousands of protesters marched through Manhattan during the Republican National Convention last week, some were equipped with a wireless tactical communications device connected to...(See full entry.)
September 1, 2004
Dancing in the street
Hard to know exactly how to characterize this but cognitive dissident John Perry Barlow has been leading revelers through a series of public dance mobs in the vicinity of the Republican convention (Dancarchy Reigns!) He seems happy with the results...(See full entry.)
June 8, 2004
Service without reward
Via Jon Lebkowsky: a civic-service twist to Google e-mail: As seen on eBay - we've gots 'em. Nine brand new, shiny, gmail invites are sitting in my inbox waiting to further dilute the value some people are apparently willing to...(See full entry.)
June 1, 2004
Let's Talk America
Let's Talk America is "a nationwide movement that will bring Americans from all points on the political spectrum together in cafes, bookstores, churches and living rooms for lively, open-hearted dialogue to consider questions essential to the future of our democracy."...(See full entry.)
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May 27, 2004
Commercial community info
"ePodunk provides in-depth information about more than 25,000 communities around the country, from Manhattan to Los Angeles, Pottstown to Podunk. Our listings also include geocoded information about thousands of parks, museums, historic sites, colleges, schools and other places across America."...(See full entry.)
May 21, 2004
Strawberry roots
Nice new analogy by Britt Blaser: Strawberry Roots Activism. Your front lawn is dependent on you for seed, feed, water and weeding, each seed pushing out just a few blades for us to admire. Rhyzomes, like strawberries and crabgrass, are...(See full entry.)
May 20, 2004
The Planetwork Interactive conference, June 5-6, SF
Art McGee of Virtual Identity sent around this announcement for The Planetwork Interactive, June 5-6 (and 7), 2004, San Francisco, CA, USA: Join Ben Cohen from True Majority and other leaders of online activism, MoveOn, Act For Change and the...(See full entry.)
May 17, 2004
DeanSpace generalized
Dan Gillmor has the latest on Zack Rosen's doings: With the help of a local venture capitalist, Rosen and several colleagues are bringing the "DeanSpace" online collaboration software they created for the former presidential candidate to a wider civic audience....(See full entry.)
April 7, 2004
Progressive philanthropy
Gift Hub is a site to facilitate giving with a grassroots civic purpose ("responsive philanthropy"?). "As a volunteer and friend of philanthropy I try to connect idealistic donors with resources that may be helpful to them." ... "Ideally, the site...(See full entry.)
April 6, 2004
Tracking down Pew studies on Internet use
PC Magazine cited a lot of data on how people are getting campaign info via the Internet. They named the Pew Internet & American Life Project, but those data are in a report from the Pew Research Center for the...(See full entry.)
March 5, 2004
Second superpower, third world?
Since Pete has done a good job of tracking back the second superpower meme, I figured we should also continue tracking it forward, as in Making Room for the Third World in the Second Superpower. In it, the author looks...(See full entry.)
February 24, 2004
What's a Blog, and Why Should Nonprofits Care?
Austin Free-Net, a community technology nonprofit, has found blogs both an effective supervisorial tool and a means for communicating to stakeholders and the public. From an article at NonprofitQuarterly.org: When she encouraged her staff to blog about their work, Sisnett...(See full entry.)
February 20, 2004
Use the term "passivism"
Doc Searls had a dream about what happens when nobody objects: ... I lay in bed for a long time thinking about what the dream meant. What bothered me about the dream wasn't that a bomb had gone off, but that I had been in a position to stop it ...(See full entry.)
"Second superpower," Googlewashing, and Chapter 3
Chapter 3 discusses Moore's blog article on "the second superpower". Writing up my notes within that chapter, I compiled a ton of URLs and figured I better make them linkable here: The Times originated the idea on 2/17/03, and the...(See full entry.)
Internet meeting Maslow's elementary needs
Physiological needs (currently in Chapter 3; move to Chapter 1?): a 12/29/2003 Yahoo/Dow Jones article about Medtronic CareLink Network and other heart monitor systems has expired now, but here is a Google cache. When Dr. Philip Adamson was traveling in...(See full entry.)
February 17, 2004
Green Media Toolshed
Martin Kearns dropped by my post at RFB about weblog strategies for nonprofits to submit another interesting website, Green Media Toolshed, a service for environmental campaigns. Visiting Kearns' Network-Centric Advocacy blog, I also read about a paper from OneNW called...(See full entry.)
February 6, 2004
British site for real-world change
A new site named MySociety.org is trying to develop public-benefit Internet projects: MySociety.org is a new charitable project from a mixture of the people who brought you FaxYourMP.com and VoxPolitics. Our aim is to build internet projects which have strong,...(See full entry.)
January 23, 2004
Convio CRM software for nonprofits
Got a call from Whitney Otstott, a Corporate Communications Manager in the PR group at Convio, which makes custom-relationship management (CRM) software for nonprofits. They are powering the Avon Foundation's breast-cancer run, and their same "TeamRaiser" software module powers many...(See full entry.)
Charity run training
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training Program recently expanded so that people in remote areas, or in areas where there's not a local chapter, can train for races through an online program. They can still meet up with...(See full entry.)
January 19, 2004
Online community toolkit
Full Circle Associates is a consultancy focused on fostering online communities. It offers this Online Community Toolkit as a good jumping-off place for related resources....(See full entry.)
Power mapping
Another organizing technique is Power mapping. This was developed originally by Ralph Nader's PIRGs. Here's a good link to the concept: Power Mapping: How to Identify and Contact The Key Individuals who will Help You Achieve Your Goal...(See full entry.)
Community asset mapping
Community asset mapping is a powerful organizing tool that involves identifying stakeholders in a community and then trying to find ways to involve them in your organizing campaign. I haven't found one single definitive reference for the topic, but here...(See full entry.)
Parks 2001 NYC
O'Connell also told me about the pros and cons of the Parks 2001 NYC campaign, and her involvement in its Internet organizing aspect for Partnership for Parks....(See full entry.)
Green Corps' Heritage Forests Campaign
Christine O'Connell, from Partnership for Parks in New York, gave me the benefit of her Internet organizing experience with Green Corps, specifically her role and the tactics used in the Heritage Forests Campaign to protect roadless areas in national forests....(See full entry.)
Writing effective email alerts
TechSoup - Articles: Using the Internet - Writing Effective Email Alerts...(See full entry.)
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
In my conversation with Howard Rheingold, we talked about a three-part process, starting from people finding a virtual community in order to address some need, then - if possible - meeting face-to-face to plan activities, and then finally commiting to...(See full entry.)
January 5, 2004
Craig Newmark to help SF with problem-tracking
craigblog: reinventing government? or, am I fooling myself? Hey, if you're curious, I've just agreed to help the city take a look atthe way SF city departments plan to use information tech to provide bettercustomer service and other stuff. Specifically,...(See full entry.)
Is physical presence necessary for community?
Tom Coates has thought a lot about moderating and facilitating online communities: A few months ago I responded to a site that claimed The Internet is Shit with a reposte designed to illustrate that although our networks might contain difficult...(See full entry.)
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More online politics
Pete: Donald Wildmon is the founder of American Family Assn, , has a big Action Alert network and is very effective at getting members to communicate to politicians. Lou Sheldon is chairman of Traditional Values Coalition. I don't know about...(See full entry.)
Charity link
CHARITY: Potential main case study: breast cancer two-day walks. ... keep track of meetings, arrange buddy training walks, enlist donor pledges there....(See full entry.)
Community links
online chat sessions with local candidates or candidate info Online high school Online help (with audio) for students who failed state testing Sierra Club. International has a page to let visitors send boilerplate letters to politicians on various topics. N.J....(See full entry.)
GiveLife.org
Pete wrote: Another possible case study (though it's yet another big organization instead of a grassroots effort) is the American Red Cross: they use their database to send reminders to blood donors, to schedule appointments at the next blood drive,...(See full entry.)
Best practices for Yahoo! Groups
Bob Jacobson, from Dean Leaders, notes: It's amazing how little examined Yahoo Groups are, given their centrality to the Dean campaign. I did a search and turned up this moderated Yahoo group, ">Online Faciliation, which I've joined. (I've not yet...(See full entry.)
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Blah! USA
Rodney pointed out this game/chat/virtual world service: welcome to blah! usa....(See full entry.)
Someone at OSI?
A reminder to try to contact someone at the Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, possibly my old schoolmate Justin Burke, who works at Soros Foundations Network. George Soros would be a great name to write a foreword, but...(See full entry.)
Weblog strategies for nonprofits
My own essay from Radio Free Blogistan continues to generate new incoming links, from increasingly influential nonprofit- and activist-oriented weblogs, such as this one: WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Weblog Strategies for Non-Profits...(See full entry.)
Ten Questions to Kick Start Network Centric Campaign Planning
Network-Centric Advocacy: Ten Questions to Kick Start Network Centric Campaign Planning, from Marty Kearns....(See full entry.)