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Real World Organizing out of the Virtual World
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I have been attending RootsCamp in Second Life.
RootsCamp is getting progressives together to get feedback on what did and didn't work in the 2006 election, and they are mostly having real world meetings. These meetings in Second life have been quite interesting. I think amazing things can happen when activists can hold virtual meetings and discuss their strategies and get help, from like-minded people from around the country and the world.
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Here are some of what I have learned there.
I found out about this fundraiser, in LA Saturday, for the Genocide Prevention Network
Saturday, Nov. 18, 2006
the Hive Gallery & Studios
729 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90014
7:30-9:30 p.m.
I saw activists using ComicLife to make edutainment comicbooks, in the Virtual World.
There were people from TechSoup - Technology for non-profits
http://www.techsoup.org
There is a big push by NewPolitics.net
to adopt the new technologies for the 2008 Election.
Blog, Viral Videos, text messaging, cellphone calling parties.
121Contact connects high school students and teachers in the U.S. with their peers in Iraq. The goal is simple: let children get to know each other and it will less likely for them to war upon each other.
A progressive Artist's Blog: http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/
SIlly Anti-Bush videos on http://www.gizmoz.com/tag/bush_
In a report from the Lamont campaign, their technology coordinator told of how they used http://www.bluestatedigital.com to handle signups, mass emails, donations; Sage Systems http://www.sage-systems.com/ for FEC filing, for early voter id stuff. Google calendar and spreadsheets, good use of ActBlue http://www.actblue.com/ early on. They also used Salesforce http://www.salesforce.com/ for the most important calendar stuff
These meetings will go on today, with followups, in the Better World Sim.
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| Posted by: EricAhlberg on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 12:53 PM
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