Yesterday we discussed the importance of emotional resonance with regard to effectively reaching an audience (ala Ze Frank). Resonance is an imperative tool for organizers to strive to comprehend, especially when trying to encourage or inspire any sort of group action. …
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A resource for organizers, activists, artists, visionaries, or anyone that wants to understand how people come together and make things happen.rnrnMake Something Happen is a product of The Point, a platform for organizing group actions.
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A Closer Look: Peter Dreiser, Obama, and the Rise of the Organizer Class
http://makesomethinghappen.net/2008/07/03/a-closer-look-peter-dreiser-obama-and-the-rise-of-the-organizer-class/Will Obama Inspire a New Generation of Organizers, a piece written by Peter Dreier and originally published in Dissent Magazine, appeared in The Huffington Post on Tuesday evening. Dreier, a professor of politics and director of the Urban & Environmental Policy program at Occidental College (and also teaches a class on community organizing), details the effect Sen. …
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Today In eAction News // 06.03.08
http://makesomethinghappen.net/2008/07/03/today-in-eaction-news-060308-2/On this day, July 3nd, 2008, the news brings to our attention a generation of community organizer aspirants, the Chinese finding their way around the Great Firewall, backlash against Rogers, the Canadian iPhone provider, and much, much more. …
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Quick Hits — June 30, 2008
http://www.epolitics.com/2008/06/30/quick-hits-june-30-2008/In which e.politics awakens from a short summer nap. Update: Auto-replace as a political tool — with blowback. Did Google use its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama? Obama Network Organizes and Revolts Over Spying. Via Make Something Happen. C.f. When your organizers organize you and Telecom Amnesty Foes Lobby Obama Using Obama Tech. How Obama can lessen the intensity of the opposition. On the Web, Supporters of McCain Wage An Uphill Battle
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makesomethinghappen podcast
http://davidallis.com/makesomethinghappen-podcast/conversation
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Second Cup - McCain Invited to YearlyKos and How to Succeed on YouTube
http://techrepublican.com/blog/second-cup-mccain-invited-to-...MSHcast #3: David All and the Organization of the Rightroots, MakeSomethingHappen.com Podcast interview of David by MSH's Alex Steed. Obv. worth a listen. Learning from YouTube Masters... , CitizenTube. Build networks. Email lists matter - Matthew said Newsbusted was a success from the beginning because their
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links for 2008-06-25
http://www.kevinbondelli.com/2008/06/25/links-for-2008-06-25...Live Blogging the Personal Democracy Forum 2008 | Make Something Happen
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Daily Digest: PdF '08 Day Two -- Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.
http://www.personaldemocracy.com/blog/entry/26651/daily_dige...(again, me) reflects upon a session featuring Mayhill Fowler where the OffTheBus contributor called for bloggers to agree to some "code of the road" that creates a safe, off-the-record space for press. ThePoint.com's Alex Steed is doing some granular liveblogging of the conference. Of course, there's more going on than we can possibly capture. So check out the Twitter stream tag ged #pdf2008 on Summize. UPDATE: UpTakeVideo has video of Dabble's Mary Hodder and PdF/Change's
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PDF 2008
http://www.bethechangeinc.org/changewire/2008/06/25/pdf-2008...changing nature of communication, politics, and journalism, and how people use the tools available. Our very own Tim was there, and hopefully he’ll give us some additional insight. In the mean time, the best liveblog of the event I’ve seen is from Make Something Happen. It covers the event without giving me every little instance, and is very readable. It sounds like the conference went pretty well - although I wasn’t there, even just reading through blogs of the event are giving me valuable information. A lot of
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From the Personal Democracy Forum (PDF08)
http://wlerik.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/from-the-personal-dem...Mayhill Fowler where the OffTheBus contributor called for bloggers to agree to some “code of the road” that creates a safe, off-the-record space for press. ThePoint.com’s Alex Steed is doing some granular liveblogging of the conference. Of course, there’s more going on than we can possibly capture. So check out the Twitter stream tagged #pdf2008 on Summize.
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Kleines Sammelsurium: Rebooting the System, “Rise of the e-petition”
http://www.e-demokratie.org/veranstaltung/kleines-sammelsuri...re adding a whole second day to the PdF agenda, devoted to how technology is changing governance and civic action. Mehr Informationen gibt es unter personaldemocracy.com. Make Something Happen hat live gebloggt. —– Alex Stevenson hat auf politics.co.uk einen sehr interessanten Artikel über den zunehmenden Einfluss von Petitionen in England verfasst.
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Daily Digest: PdF '08 Day Two -- Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.
http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/26651/daily_digest_p...(again, me) reflects upon a session featuring Mayhill Fowler where the OffTheBus contributor called for bloggers to agree to some "code of the road" that creates a safe, off-the-record space for press. ThePoint.com's Alex Steed is doing some granular liveblogging of the conference. Of course, there's more going on than we can possibly capture. So check out the Twitter stream tag ged #pdf2008 on Summize. UPDATE: UpTakeVideo has video of Dabble's Mary Hodder and PdF/Change's
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Daily Digest: PdF '08 Day Two -- Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.
http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/26651/daily_digest_p...(again, me) reflects upon a session featuring Mayhill Fowler where the OffTheBus contributor called for bloggers to agree to some "code of the road" that creates a safe, off-the-record space for press. ThePoint.com's Alex Steed is doing some granular liveblogging of the conference. Of course, there's more going on than we can possibly capture. So check out the Twitter stream tag ged #pdf2008 on Summize. UPDATE: UpTakeVideo has video of Dabble's Mary Hodder and PdF/Change's
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