May 2: How Network Orgs and Free Agents are Re-invigorating Social Change Movements
There has been a sea change recently creating new models for how social change organizations structure… [more]
Finding Your Place With Occupy Wall Street: A Guide for Digital Strategists & Online Organizers
The Occupy Wall Street movement, now in its second month, is a protest force of nature. Unions, progressive… [more]
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America, Your Billionaires Need Your Help – Now More Than Ever!
This is a great example of creativity at work in unions today, and as something that others might adapt and repeat as part of their own political efforts. Guest post from a leader of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) a union representing workers at CUNY.
Communication Bias
Organizing 2.0 trains organizers in social media, digital strategy and other fields related to ‘the online digital arts.’ Among the issues raised in our trainings is the problem of professional bias.Learn to identify it – and respond.
The World Wide ILCA
The International Labor Communicators Association (ILCA) is having its biennial conference in Seattle this week, September 21-24. I’ll be attending for the first time and invite all those who care about or work with the labor community to catch up on the work of this important organization.
Mobile-ize Training Videos – Part 2
More videos from Mobile-ize, Organize and Unionize training event on June 3rd. Videos here include Lisa Grob, Jess Kutch, Michael Sabat and Gloria Fong.
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May 2: How Network Orgs and Free Agents are Re-invigorating Social Change Movements
Network organizations, typically those “born after the Internet”, are smaller, nimble, less hierarchical, highly collaborative and deeply social by nature. Their leadership, culture, structure, programs, and outcomes are often quite different from those of traditionally structured NGO’s.
Finding Your Place With Occupy Wall Street: A Guide for Digital Strategists & Online Organizers
The Occupy Wall Street movement, now in its second month, is a protest force of nature. Are digital strategists & online organizers finding a place? If you haven’t already, this will help.
Organizing 2.0 at Occupy Wall Street
It’s 5pm and I just finished setting up my table at Zuccotti Park. I’ve got flyers covering different kinds of communication skills, a collection of reference books, my laptop, mobile broadband, and I’m ready to go. My goal is to offer training and consulting help to whoever can use it to advance the Occupy Wall [...]
Finally: The Organizers Join the Occupationistas
Want to understand the difference between ‘organizing’ and the Occupy Wall Street protesters? Go watch the new film Moneyball, based on the 2003 book of the same name.