Tag: strategy
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A #diversityfail as an opportunity: guys talking to guys who talk about guys
How can an entrepeneur planning a startup that’s going to develop some revolutionary software that relates to how people work together discover truly game-changing product and business model possibilities? One approach is to look at a situation in a different way than everybody else. Easier said than done, typically … unless you’re lucky enough to…
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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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Get FISA Right on Ideas for Change: only 72 hours left, five ways to help
Voting in change.org’s Ideas for Change in America competition closes Thursday at 2 p.m. Pacific time. Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties has just fallen to #8, and a couple of the ideas close behind us like Pass the DREAM Act – Support Higher Education for All Students have…
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Vote early, promote often: Ideas for Change and Get FISA Right
The second round of voting in change.org’s Ideas for Change in America competition kicked off today. Please vote for Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties — and help promote it! To vote, just click on the Vote here button on the widget on the right. (If your vote doesn’t…
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On to the second round of “Ideas for Change in America”!
Also posted on the new Get FISA Right blog Happy new year! My idea Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties finished #2 in the Criminal Justice category of change.org/MySpace’s Ideas for Change in America competition, and so has advanced to the second round. We can revise the idea over…
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“President Obama, please get FISA right” approved by Comcast
Get FISA Right’s cable TV ad for the inauguration has been approved by Comcast — almost two weeks sooner than we had estimated! So now it’s time for grassroots fundraising to put it on the air – in Washington DC, and potentially all around the country. The ad addresses President Obama directly, congratulating him on…
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Photos wanted for the Get FISA Right “inauguration ad”
Were you one of the 23,000 Obama supporters who got together on my.barackobama.com last July to protest his stance on FISA? If so, we’d like to include your photo in a cable TV ad we’re working on with SaysMe.tv that we’ll be broadcasting in Washington DC for the inauguration. Here’s the script: Even though we…
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Turning the Page on FISA (guest-blogging on change.org)
I’ve got a post Turning the Page on FISA on change.org’s Criminal Justice blog today. Here’s the beginning: The coming year will present a unique opportunity for a broad-based activism campaign to restore our civil liberties and begin rolling back key pillars of the national surveillance state institutionalized by the Bush Administration and Congress over…
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Get FISA Right: draft scripts up … feedback please!
First-draft scripts for a few different options for our next round of ads are up on the wiki: Better watch those nuns — and their friends too Obama’s cell-phone records breached Congratulations. Now, get FISA right. Feedback welcome! Discussion thread here … jon PS: in case you missed it, I posted a Get FISA Right…
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Get FISA Right: quick update
Executive Summary Ideas for Change competition: currently #6; please vote for and help promote our idea. Cable TV ads: notes from last conference call are up; next call Saturday; script frozen by Monday. Update, 9:30 pm: draft scripts including “Better watch those nuns — and their friends too” posted. Feedback please! 2009 strategy planning: please…
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Get FISA Right: Proposed 2009 strategy
After discussions with people in Get FISA Right as well as others (including EFF, ACLU, privacy advocates, and journalists), I’ve put together a proposal for a 2009 Strategy. There’s also a Strategy Backgrounder, with a brief history, and a discussion of our strengths and challenges — as well as challenges for the anti-FISA forces in…
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Get FISA Right: on the air in St. Paul!
During the past 8 years, the Bush administration listened to Americans’ phone calls and read their emails without a warrant. If elected President, John McCain would do the same.* – Get FISA Right ad, scheduled to air on Fox News in St. Paul today Update: check out Nick Juliano’s Anti-FISA group targets GOP delegates in…
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Vegas, baby! Iron Chef Black Hat
Draft posted August 14. Substantially revised August 17. The second of a two-part series on the Black Hat USA 2008 security conference. Back when we lived in San Francisco in the 1990s, we were huge fans of Fuji TV’s Iron Chef, then shown with subtitles on a local cable station. When local chef Ron Siegel…
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Make desire more important than fear: “Change the Way You See Yourself (Through Asset-Based Thinking)”
Kathy Cramer and Hank Wasiak’s new book is out, a gorgeous and well-focused follow-on to their Change the Way You See Everything, one of the Microsoft Ad Astra project’s signature giveaways.* In May 2007, we did an amazing two-day workshop with Kathy, Hank and his colleagues from the Concept Farm, and folks from Extreme Arts…
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It’s over. Isn’t it? Microsoft/Yahoo, continued
“It’s over. Isn’t it?” — the end of Killer Klowns from Outer Space Act 1 ended with a temporary resolution: Microsoft deciding not to “go hostile” and instead withdrawing their offer to buy Yahoo! After a brief intermission, Bill Gates’ announcement of Live Search Cashback is bang-up start to Act 2, featuring guest star Carl…
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Allies in the blogosphere
There’s so much to write about for Angry Black Woman’s Carnival of Allies that it’s hard to know where to start. At first I thought of focusing on “why the usual excuses are not good enough.” As the month of April went on, though, with brownfemipower’s and Blackamazon’s final statements, the growing list of women…
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Strategy, security, and static analysis: what’s next for me
Fourteen years ago today was my last day at Digital Equipment Corporation before leaving to work on the technology today became PREfix and the company I started with a few friends that became Intrinsa, so it seems especially appropriate to post about this today … I’m delighted to announce that I’m starting a part-time strategy…
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My new bio-in-progress, 2.0
It’s amusingly difficult for me to write professional biographies, especially for print publications. Not only do I have a hard time reducing my career to the paragraph you’re usually allowed, at some level it feels like it forces me to reify my identity. Nonetheless, it has to be done; right now, I’m on the hook…
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When I’m right, I’m right: Geraldine Ferraro and “The day after”
The Obama campaign’s response to Geraldine Ferraro’s attack perfectly illustrates several things I talked about last week in The day after. Campaign strategist David Axelrod emphasizes the pattern: Axelrod said Ferraro’s comments were part of a “pattern” of negative attacks aimed at Obama. He pointed to Clinton’s former New Hampshire co-chairman Bill Shaheen, who questioned…
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The day after: narrative through the lens of strategy
original essay March 5, 2008 see the comments for updates Back on February 7, Catherine Dodge and Alex Tanzi of Bloomberg News broke a story on an Obama campaign spreadsheet, “inadvertently” released by the campaign, with their projections (or maybe predictions) of delegates. Ben Smith on Politico has a nice screenshot, and even better a…