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Manifest Destiny? DIA Opens WiredRockies in Montana
The nonprofit community is not confined to major metropolitan areas, and the tools and services available to nonprofits shouldn't be, either.
So on the heels of our westward foray to the Bay, we are excited to announce the launch of our new WiredRockies office, based in Missoula, Montana.
Jeanette Russell will serve as our Western Field Director providing strategic and technical support for DIA clients and organizations. "Jnet" brings over 12 years of experience as an environmental leader and knows grassroots organizing, non-profit management and fundraising, besides the technology turn that's redefining her nickname.
Our WiredRockies office is designed to increase the effectiveness of DIA users and expand our western network. It will also provide technical resource in rural areas, where online communication support is sparse.
DIA's Western Field office means that clients can expect:
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03:42 PM Jun 29, 2007 -
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USSF Kicks Off with a Mad Beat
The US Social Forum kicked off yesterday with DIA literally in the house. The locals here call it the 'Civic Center' and it’s where an estimated 10,000 activists, organizers and revolutionary tourists will be spending part of the next few days. Among them yours truly and Kip Williams, on a mission to spread the gospel of online organizing as a powerful agent of change. Kip spent the morning helping with registration, a process that could have been a disaster. But it wasn’t! Key members of the Information & Communication Technology team, including Ana Willem, made sure that all went well. Here and there he still had a chance to make beautiful music ...
Most of my day was spent sitting at the DIA table and talking to folks about technology. I’ve been able to meet some great folks: a Hawai'i native scholar and activist, AFSC folks who work on Africa issues, and one of April's old teachers the Friends World College. (Kathleen says hello!)
Charles holding up the Technology for Another World, the publication of the tech committee at the USSF.
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10:01 AM Jun 28, 2007 -
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Make It Your Own: Case Foundation's Experiment in Citizen-Centric Philanthropy
The Case Foundation yesterday opened a summer application window for its "Make It Your Own" awards.
A few months on from the controversial Net2 funding scrum, Case revisits similar philosophical ground with very different execution.
To begin with, it's a multi-staged process of "managed democracy" -- you know, like we have in the political sphere, except with some democracy -- instead of the free-for-all registration-and-voting process that drew heat for Net2.
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02:50 PM Jun 27, 2007 -
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somit :-$$$ n weird
Full fathom five thy father lies: Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.-William Shakespeare, The Tempest And just when we were getting comfortable. Via the couldn't-be-more-aptly-named Sea Change comes this fabulous chart of different online activities by age group.
Take a look at that thing.
While "Collectors" are strikingly distributed throughout the population curve, there's an amazing phenomenon in every other category of engagement:
Under-27s are qualitatively more participatory than everyone else, even their immediate elders.
You'd probably expect folks born in the Truman Administration to rock the geek a little less than the Wii-implant generation. No surprise, that.
But across the board, half of the dropoff from "Generation Y" to "Older Boomers" occurs between ages 26 and 27.
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11:31 AM Jun 22, 2007 -
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Ms. Calculation
A few months ago, I blogged about the perils of politically-charged title picklists, mentioning in part that we'd never had "Miss" requested as an option. Better make that: we'dI was a kid in the 70s when Ms. was introduced--not as an alternative word meaning the same thing as Miss but as a way of not reveal marital status. If the alternatives are just Mrs. or Ms., then Ms. had become simply a synonym for Miss that that non-married women use and that still reveals them as "not-Mrs." I strongly suggest that you add Miss to your list. Then those who choose to reveal their marital status can, but Ms. retains its value of being a equalizer for all of us.Interestingly, the logic is basically the same as the inquiry featured in this blog in April -- that "Ms." with "Mrs." drains the former of its distinctive meaning as a social equalizer with the all-purpose "Mr." -- while coming to opposite the opposite remedy.
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06:48 PM Jun 21, 2007 -
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