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Tech for Social Change: An UN-meeting - June 5, 2010
Want you to know about our ***FREE*** meetup on Saturday, June 05, 2010 to learn and share technology and progressive social change. You can find out more and register on our wiki at: http://occonf.pbworks.com.
The meeting IS About:
--- change
--- peers
--- activists
--- participant rule
--- useful technology
Technology 2.0: Yes, We Can!
Event rescheduled to September 12, 2009 We've been hard at work organizing an event designed to bootstrap community folks' 2.0 savvy! It captures that can-do spirit from the farmworkers' movement and, eh, a recent campaign ;-).
Saved by the Gears
Yesterday, just as I was closing in on a 12-noon deadline for submitting a proposal online, my Google-hosted e-mail slowed to a crawl. Normally that's not too much of a problem.
Bootstrapping your Twitter presence
The history of Twitter may soon be divided into two time frames, Before & After Oprah. Before Oprah, the Twitterers of the world numbered some 6 million and growing fast. Now, who knows? That number may have grown by a million.
New Tools and the Peace Movement
At the end of March, I had the pleasure of organizing a workshop, "New Tools for Peace and Justice Organizers" at the AFSC-sponsored conference, New Strategies in the Time of Obama. The lively, well-attended workshop brainstormed the topics that people wanted to address, reviewed how Web 2.0 has changed organizing and the types of tools that are now available.
New Spammer Tactic: Joining Your Lists... and Waiting
If you manage e-mail lists--i.e. if you do any kind of organizing--you may have noticed the growth of a new spamming tactic: the spammer subscribes to your list and then they send automated, "out-of-office" replies to your posts filled with info about their preferred product/content.
Facebook Ferment Continues
Now pushing 200 million members, Facebook is facing its second user revolt in as many months. This time millions of members have joined the revolt against its new interface. A month ago it was about (the still unresolved) terms-of-service issue.
Discussing New Media With The 20-Something Crowd
Most OC workshops on New Media involve non-profit leaders and staff well into their thirties (and, eh, beyond). On Wednesday, however, I was fortunate enough to facilitate our workshop with a regional planning class at Tufts.
New Strategies Conference: New Tools For Peace & Justice Organizers
OC's Suren Moodliar will be joining with MoveOn's National Field Director Anna Galland at the American Friends Service Committee's New Strategies in the Time of Obama conference to offer a workshop on new online organizing tools.
Google Voice: Useful Feature Set, Profound Privacy Challenges
Once upon a time we had a home phone for personal stuff and a work phone for business; we also had physical addresses for home and work. That is no more!
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