Category: social computing
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Ethnographic observations and you!
An as-yet-unnamed potential startup company is planning to develop some revolutionary software that relates to how people work together. One of our first steps is to set set up a research community and making some ethnographic observations — in other words, getting an understanding of how people work today. We’re especially trying to get a…
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Creating the future at #cfp09: showtime for privacy and civil liberties activsm!
“Fight for me!” — a privacy-loving Facebook friend, wishing me luck at the conference Here’s our opportunity to realize the promise of the Net that was so present in 1990s when CFP started. — Deborah Pierce on the CFP blog The program for this year’s Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference is outstanding even by CFP’s…
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Users: #fixreplies. Twitter: “No. Thanks for the great feedback!”
Retweet this. If you disagree with Twitter’s decision to hide replies to ppl you don’t follow, start your replies with #fixreplies. — @nazgul (aka Kee Hinckley), on Twitter 56000 tweets later, in We learned a lot, Twitter founder @biz admitted that the “user feedback” they had cited as part of their original decision didn’t include…
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#p2 and prioritizing diversity: background reading for Thursday’s tweeting
#p2 tweeting* Thursday April 30 7-8PM Pacific/10-11PM Eastern Draft agenda and discussion here Please join us! Twitter is an opportunity to engage with communities currently marginalized by the “progressive blogosphere” — Tracy Viselli and Jon Pincus, The #p2 Hashtag and Strategies for Progressives on Twitter on The Exception #p2 is a resource for progressives who…
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Equal Pay Day: #fairpay and Women don’t ask
According to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2007 the ratio of women’s and men’s median annual earnings reached almost 78 cents on the dollar for full-time year-round workers, up from just under 77 cents in 2006. This is the narrowest the wage gap has ever been, but it’s only an additional…
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Twitter *is* a strategy (UPDATED draft)
DRAFT! Work in progress. Feedback welcome! Update, April 27: This thread sparked and tied in with substantial discussion elsewhere — see the bottom of the main post for additional links. I developed my thoughts in Cognitive evolution and revolution, which I presented at Politics Online; the blog post and comments also document a couple of…
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Cognitive evolution and revolution, part 1: #polc09 and a #diversityfail
Opening slide from early draft of Hashtags at #polc09 Politics Online (1, 2) was a great conference, at least from my perspective. Starting with the opening session by Secretaries of State Debra Bowen and Jennifer Brunner, every session I went to had great content.  It was a wonderful opportunity to meet friends and colleagues in-person,…
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Tweet the silence! #dayofsilence Twitter chat today at 3:30 PM Eastern/12:30 Pacific
The National Day of Silence brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. Each year the event has grown, now with hundreds of thousands of students coming together to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior. — dayofsilence.org 11-year-old Carl Walker-Hoover took his own life last week after constant…
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Guest-blogging mania! New posts on Twitter activism and innovation
I’ve got a couple of new guest-blog posts up elsewhere: Skittles and infowar: #pman, disinformation, and trolls on The Seminal continues the “Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists” series, focusing on the Moldovan protests. This week’s lesson: Expect interference — and have a plan to deal with it. I posted an earlier draft here;…
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My reply to Clay Shirky on #amazonfail
Clay’s post The failure of #amazonfail admits that over the weekend, he jumped to conclusions, “believed things that weren’t true” about Amazon and was “intoxicated” by the hashtag. He now thinks he was wrong. Most of the post is written in the first person plural, assuming everybody else reacted as he did. He concludes that…
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Disinformation, trolls, and #pman: more serious than Skittles (DRAFT)
DRAFT! Work in progress! Feedback welcome … Final version to appear on The Seminal If you’re joining the series already in progress: Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists introduced the series, briefly described how Skittles’ Twitter-centric viral marketing campaign caught fire, and concluded that Activists and poets — and anybody else who wants media…
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How to vote in NetSquared challenges — voting closes Friday 3 PM Pacific time!
NetSquared is hosting the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge and Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge, both filled with great projects for people to vote on, with a total of $60,000 in funding and prizes for the winners . Cool! But … At least for me, the voting process was extraordinarily difficult; I counted 15 steps, and…
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Change the way you ask for help (DRAFT)
DRAFT! Work in progress, feedback welcome! See the first comment for some specific questions Revised version to appear on The Ideators’ Journey, kicking off a series on collaboration and innovation, perhaps as two posts. Eve’s Ask for help makes a great introduction to a series that Mikal Lewis and I will be kicking off on…
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#pxfridays, TweetLeft and #followfriday: connecting progressives on Twitter
In Strategies for progressives on Twitter, Tracy Viselli and I talked about the importance of tools and techniques for flash actions on Twitter. Conservatives have been organizing longer and have the early lead, but I think progressives and bipartisans are starting to catch up.
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Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists: part 1 now posted on The Seminal!
A few weeks ago Agency.com and Skittles kicked off “Interweb the rainbowâ€, a brilliant marketing campaign that involved multiple social networks. The idea was simple: replace the Skittles.com home page with different social network sites. Late that Sunday evening, they set it up to show everything that people were saying on Twitter about Skittles. Everything,…
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Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists, parts 1 (and 2?) (DRAFT!!!!)
DRAFT! Work in Progress! Feedback, please! Final version to be published in The Seminal, potentially in two parts excerpt from skittles home page, March 2009
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How to promote “Ask the President” on Twitter
Ask The President is launching Thursday, March 19. You can help promote it by tweeting about the site once its live, retweeting any links about it, using Twitter to ask people to vote for any questions you submit, and . And if you see other people tweeting about it, please retweet!
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Launching “Ask The President” on Twitter
Original draft March 16. Revised March 19. “Net movement” journalist/activist Ari Melber’s latest brainstorm, Ask the President, is launching on March 19 at http://www.communitycounts.com/Obama.  The basic idea is to provide a followon to Change.gov’s short-lived Open for Questions series [1, 2]: a way for people to submit potential questions and vote on what they…
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#women2follow: collaborative empowerment on Twitter
The idea behind #Women2Follow Wednesdays is straightforward: to recognize and promote women in the technology and social media field — and help people find each other. If you’re on Twitter, it’s easy to participate.
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#digg it, continued: more Twitter/digg experimental results
The great thing about the #digg it experiment (trying to use Twitter to increase visibility for progressives, feminists, and women of color on Digg), is that it’s so easy to explain to people*: if you’ve got a story you’re trying to promote on Digg, include the #digg hashtag when you tweet it, and at least…