For those of you who have gotten to know me over the last twelve months, Ad Astra (Analysis and Development of Awesome STRAtegies) was a grassroots strategy/culture change project I led at Microsoft. Its positive focus, wiki-centricity, and network-oriented strategies foreshadowed a lot of work on Get FISA Right and the Voter Suppression Wiki; it’s also where I learned about advertising, something that’s proven very useful in our work with SaysMe.tv.
Wow, what a year!
Welcome to Ad Astrans and friends. There’s a lot to catch up on and I hope that everybody uses this thread to start doing so.  If you haven’t been tracking it closely, Ad Astra-style wiki/social network activism has gone mainstream over the last six months — poke around the blog for more. w00t w00t! More on all that soon …
The main order of business right now is to decide whether we want to try to have a get-together this holiday season. While I’ve stayed in touch with a lot of people online, it’s been over a year since I’ve seen most Ad Astrans. Last year’s virtual holiday get-together was nice, but there’s a lot to be said for in-person meetings.
Anybody interested?
If so, please respond in the doodle poll I’ve set up, offering a few different choices for times. Once we decide on something, we’ll create a Facebook event and start circulating it. How web 2.0 of us!
And whether or not you can make it to the in-person event, please say hi in the comments and let us know what you’re up to!
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