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#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…

#amazonfail and we’re not done yet: links and perspectives (UPDATED with new links)

Apr 18, 2009

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jon

in Tales from the Net, Uncategorized

Update, April 21: added some additional links here Amazon’s stock has recovered, bouyed by Friday’s report that Kindle sales have exceeded expectations. Traffic on the #amazonfail hashtag is much lighter.Â The auction for AmazonFail.com is over, at least for the time being. But I don’t think this issue’s going away quite that quickly. Right now…

Tweet the silence! #dayofsilence Twitter chat today at 3:30 PM Eastern/12:30 Pacific

Apr 16, 2009

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jon

in social computing, Uncategorized

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…

#digg it!: initial experimental results — and let’s try it again!

Feb 9, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net, Uncategorized

please digg, retweet, and follow on twitter Update, 2:30 PM: please also digg and retweet the Nordstrom action alert Update 4:30 PM: Jen Nedeau’s Can social media save the day? has more Last Friday’s #Digg it! A proposal for women of color, feminists, and progressives on Twitter experiment went remarkably well for a first attempt.Â …

Neocons’ worst nightmare: net movements intersecting in Ideas for Change in America

Jan 13, 2009

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jon

in political, social sciences, Tales from the Net

DREAM Activists and undocumented youth, the Stonewall 2.0 LGBTQ movement, Get FISA Right and civil libertarians, peace activists — together again for the first time, along with a demand for accountability for the last 8 years. Â Scary stuff.Â 🙂 Read on for more … and please digg it! It’s been surprising to me how…

Stonewall 2.0: Repeal DOMA!

Jan 10, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

The vibe under the sunshine at the corner of Castro and Market was positive and determined — a few hundred people maybe (I’m horrible at estimating), just the right size for the location.Â The immediate purpose was to organize for signature-gathering for the Open Letter to President Obama, with people fanning out afterwards to BART…

Join the Impact: taking social network activism (and LGBTQ rights) to the next level

Nov 13, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Kate X Messer’s Young gay marriage activist leads national protests on 365 Gay profiles Seattle Amy Balliett, who started up the Join the Impact web site after a blog post and email by her friend Willow Witte.Â Amy’s 26, and her day job is as a search engine optimizer.Â It’s also an excellent history of…

Online activism in response to anti-LGBTQ propositions

Nov 10, 2008

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jon

in political, Tales from the Net

There’s a huge amount of activism going on in response to Prop 8 in California and the other anti-LGBTQ state propositions that passed.Â A few I know about: Join the Impact is focused on a national day of protest on November 15.Â Their Google Group and Patrick’s post on Pam’s House Blend have more. The…

Petitions are soooooo 20th century

Nov 9, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

I set up a petition here, and I’ll be sending the comments onward to John Podesta and Michael Strautmanis of the Obama transition team. — Matt Stoller, Larry Summers At Treasury: A Fox in the Henhouse, OpenLeft The first two replies to Matt’s post were JoelN: Is it still possible to start new ‘MyBO’ groups?…

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