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Putting a Face on #Occupy Wall Street

Putting a Face on #Occupy Wall Street

by on October 5, 2011 in Uncategorized

Over the past week a number of folks have asked me what I think of the Occupy movement. I think a lot of things about it (naturally!) and thought I’d try to craft a few thoughts here.
Occupy Wall Street is a delicious and irresistible idea. It is a net-centric effort bubbling up online and sideways [...]

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Wikileaks ≠ Transparency

by on December 2, 2010 in Social Media

As much as I hate using “gate” moniker, I want to discuss what is being called “Cablegate” because its ramifications for organizational life.
If you’ve been leaving beneath your bed for the last few weeks, you may not know that Cablegate refers to the release of thousands of secret State Department communications by Wikileaks. Here is [...]

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Discount for the Personal Democracy Forum

Discount for the Personal Democracy Forum

by on May 14, 2010 in Social Media

One of my favorite events of the year is the Personal Democracy Forum (PDF) (full disclosure: I have had myriad business ties to PDF and am now engaged as a consultant with them.)
I consider PDF to be my home base for learning about what’s new and hot in the social media, politics and civics space. [...]

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Demand Question Time!

Demand Question Time!

by on February 3, 2010 in Social Media

As always, my friend Micah Sifry and his pals at Personal Democracy Forum and TechPresident are up to some good fun!
If you didn’t see the debate that President Obama had with the House Republicans last week, you absolutely must. It was inspiring to see elected officials have real, civil dialogue about real issues. Here’s a [...]

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Best Videos of 2009

by on December 24, 2009 in Social Media

My last post for this year will highlight my choices for the best videos by nonprofits and for causes of 2009.
But, first, I’d like to thank a few people who have enriched my life, taught and inspired me, and helped me in myriad ways this year — and hopefully will continue to do so next [...]

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Nonprofits and Transparency

by on November 2, 2009 in Social Media

Lucy Bernholz, in her usual smart and insightful way, has written a terrific post on philanthropy and transparency, Downsides of Transparency. She is riffing on an article that Larry Lessig wrote for the New Republic entitled, Against Transparency.
Lessig’s arguments are more provocative than right. There is, of course, nothing inherently bad with opening up the [...]

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Our "Aha" Moments

by on October 20, 2009 in Social Media

I had a terrific time as part of a panel yesterday at Baruch College called Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need to Know. The event was co-sponsored by the Personal Democracy Forum. The other panelists were:

Andrew Rasiej, Founder of Personal Democracy Forum
Deanna Zandt, Media Technologist, Consultant, and Author of the forthcoming book: Share [...]

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Off to Politics Online

by on March 3, 2008 in Uncategorized

I’ll be speaking at the 2008 Politics Online Conference tomorrow.  I’m on a panel moderated by Micah Sifry with Ben Rattry of Change.org and Randall Winston of Project Agape which manages the Causes application for Facebook.
I’ve been thinking about the intersection of causes and  social networks for a while now and am intrigued more by [...]

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