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Web 2.0-fueled resources to help each other as citizens Target audience: Political activists, change agents, NGOs, nonprofits, social change organizations, educators, librarians, citizens. It’s become a cliché to be skeptical of what government can do for society. But there’s a burgeoning movement called Government 2.0, the term for attempts to apply the social networking and […]
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Gov 2.0: A new roundup of resources
Government entities, public-spirited orgs and more This afternoon I’ll be speaking on a panel at Personal Democracy Forum in New York on “Refining Your Social Media Smarts: Campaign Successes From YouTube to Facebook to Twitter,” following the Mobilize Your Cause Bootcamp I co-presented yesterday at CUNY to 40 participants to kick off the PDF […]
Maplight shines a light on politics & money
Maplight: shining a light on politics and money from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Sean Tanner, research director of MAPLight.org, talks about how the organization provides transparency to the political donations system through widgets that tap into pubic information databases. We spoke at the NetSquared conference in San Jose, Calif., in May 2008, where MAPLight won […]
