Organizers' Collaborative

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

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 ;-).

The Organizers' Collaborative has joined with the Boston Neighborhood Network and the John O'Bryant African American Institute to organize a televised event to bring everyone up to speed about Web 2.0 and other important technological innovations.

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.

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.

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.