RootsCamp has stirred up quite a discussion on the web, with dozens of sites doing follow-up articles and many participants posting notes from individual discussion groups. Want to learn more? Go to the RootsCamp DC Notes wiki.
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As people realize their value as a communications tool, blogs are spreading to more and more places where they were initially resisted. At the rate things are going, the Western economy should shudder to a halt in, oh, about six months as we all...
Election 2006: People Powered Politics. MoveOn lets us know what you can do if you have 3.2 million motivatived volunteers. Turns out, a lot. Via Democracy in Action. In Personal Democracy Forum, Josh Levy has three reports from this past...
Today’s Post has an interesting look at Gannett’s new emphasis on the web, with local newspapers attempting to drive traffic to their websites by focusing on very local stories. The article discusses a new style of reporter, the mobile...
Hey kids, this weekend’s Roots Camp was a terrific experience — not only did I get to meet Ha-Hoa Dang and several other regular readers face to face, but I was lucky enough to sit in on a bunch of really fascinating discussions. One of...
Hi folks, the CAP just posted the video of today’s presentation. I’ll be writing a summary/analysis later this weekend, but I encourage you to check out what the presenters had to say — it was an excellent event.
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The George Allen “macaca” video has already become legend in the political world — a captured moment that spread spontaneously around the web and helped sink the campaign of a man who’d been touted as presidential contender...
How-to site edition. Hiding in Plain Sight. Democracy In Action’s Jason Z. talks about the extent to which readers skim and filter our information — complete with a groovy eyeball route map over a typical newsletter. Link Building...
Alan Rosenblatt has a good article on Frogloop this week urging organizations not to fear hostile comments on blogs and other online forums. It’s an elaboration of his idea a few weeks ago that Google has destroyed message control, that...
Sarah DiJulio with M&R Strategic Services has some excellent tips for converting traditional offline members into online activists. Switching members from snailmail to email for many communications has the obvious advantage of lowering mailing...