Tag Archives: organizing 2.0

Online Organizing: Writers Guild 2.0: The Message Get Your Hustle Online

March 1, 2010

NEW YORK – Anita Ondine, Mo Koyfman, and Mark Lukasiewcz rallied to discuss the economics of digital media as a kickoff to the WGAE’s new digital media education program. The message? Pretty simple. It’s time for writers in the guild to get their hustle on and online. It’s been two years since the Writer’s Strike, and in those two years the entertainment industry has been revolutionized by technologists and entrepreneurs, many attempting to democratize media distribution, kill the old models [...]

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Online Organizing: Leveraging Love & Tech to Self-Organize, Online Tools for Progressive Clergy to Advocate for LGBT Community

February 13, 2010

Historically both clergy and faith communities have been powerful forces of change, rallying movements for social justice in America. Perhaps no other single community has caused a larger divide in collective clergy-driven support than that of of the LGBT community fighting for marriage equality (this also covers family equality for gay, lesbian, transgender persons, bisexuals, queer and questioning youth). The LGBT community has their own voice and the support of many other groups, but it is the support of progressive [...]

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Apps of Kindness: Civic Hackers Coding for Haiti Launch New Form of Volunteerism

February 10, 2010

At a time where “Social Media for Social Change” has become an overused too often abused term, I sat down with Anna Curran, organizer for Crisis Camp NYC to get a better picture of Crisis Camp, the 3 main apps being built by the NYC camp, and to learn more about how tech and non-tech volunteers can become more involved in crisis preparedness and response. @AnnaCurran CrisisCamps are self-organized groups of web developers and tech savvy volunteers, they’re located wherever [...]

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Activisim 2.0: Love, Tech, & Politics, Lessons Learned From New Yorkers for Marriage Equality’s Campaign

January 13, 2010

MYD, Marriage Equality & Mobilization on Flickr One of the most exciting emerging fields in technology is online organizing. Lately, I’ve been calling this Activism 2.0, and by that I’m referring to online organizing powered by tech savvy activists and a series of developing web-based applications that leverage political, map-driven, and user-contributed data in powerful ways. Amidst great defeats, both online organizers and the tools they use continue to innovate rather than abandon their efforts. The 38-to-24 vote blocking New [...]

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