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Pew Study Confirm Cell Phones Rule

(so start thinking about your mobile strategy)

That’s right, more Americans in 2007 said it would be harder to give up their cell phone over, well just about anything that truly matters, including internet, TV, landline telephone or watching the Office. Those who say it would be very hard to give up: Cell phone 51% Internet 45 Television 43 Landline telephone 40 Email 37 The study, called Mobile Access to Data and Information, also concluded that “62% of all Americans are part of a wireless, mobile population that participates in digital activities away from home or work”. Texting was the most popular activity.

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01:14 PM May 01, 2008 - 3 comments permalink

Podcasts @ WomenWhoTech

The following podcasts are now available at WomenWhoTech Check it out! * Breaking Through the Digital Ceiling * Get Your Local Campaigns On! * Tooting Your Own Horn * Build an Online Campaign and Change the World * Women and Social Capital * Firing Up Your Online List * Women and Open Source * Improve This Blog Pitch * Mobile Activism * Web 2.0: Hot or Not?

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06:33 PM Apr 28, 2008 - 1 comments permalink

Mission Over Membership in Online Advocacy

This is from an article posted by NTEN. It's a distillation of the panel I led at the NTC this year. Attending the NTC was loads of fun and well worth it - see you there next year, I hope! See full version here: http://nten.org/blog/2008/04/22/mission-over-membership-in-online-advocacy Online advocacy at its best is about giving more citizens more power to act together in creating social change. At its worst, online advocacy is a fundraising technique and promotional strategy that can work, while generating some very negative inadvertent outcomes. Organizers working for the common good should do a better job of articulating good online advocacy strategies and resisting demands that our work be measured in dollars raised or a higher public profile. What we have at stake is not (just) the integrity of our cause or organization, but the effectiveness of our mission. Good organizing is like voting: it always has power, even after the 20th time. Bad organizing is like spam: today’s Viagra message is far less likely to get you to buy some, even though there is more of it out there than ever before. The conflict between the different ends of the online advocacy spectrum can be captured in a phrase: Mission over Membership.

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01:46 PM Apr 24, 2008 - 1 comments permalink

Photo of the Week

This week's photo comes from a protest against "the new imperialist", China, in London. Protesters demand justice for Tibet and focus on the new Olympic games. China holds unrivaled influence with the genocidal regime in Sudan. China must immediately use that influence to persuade the Sudanese government to allow a full and robust civilian protection force into Darfur. If China does not act, in its role as Olympic host and world leader, Beijing will go down in history as the host of the "Genocide Olympics": China will be sponsoring the Olympic Games at home and the genocide in Darfur -- in which it is complicit -- abroad.

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12:35 PM Apr 21, 2008 - 0 comments permalink

Yo FCC - Listen to the Christian Coalition of America!

All five FCC Commissioners were at Stanford University this afternoon for a panel discussion on Net Nuetrality, so my colleague David and I took a field trip down south from San Francisco for the day. Remember how Comcast paid a bus full of people to take up room at the hearing in Boston in February? We arrived early to make sure that we'd get a seat this time, but there was nothing to worry about - according to Chairman Kevin Martin, who opened the meeting with a statement of the FCC's efforts to include everyone at the table for an "open and transparent" conversation, Comcast (and all the other Internet companies) declined the invitation to dialogue with the public.

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12:34 AM Apr 18, 2008 - 0 comments permalink

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