Wire your cause

cross posted from justmeans In addition to bringing change to the White House, the Obama Presidential Campaign brought social media to the forefront of community activism. If you weren’t already a believer in the power of grassroots online community organizing before November 4th, you should be now. Of course, Obama was running for President, so [...]

kiva + facebook = involver

Kiva has launched a video campaign on Facebook to get more people involved in loaning to micro-enterprises. The campaign is coordinated through Involver – with which you can get involved here. Now if we just put all this into Google’s new virtual world, Lively, where we can mashup maps, view our picasa photos, use online [...]

Outsourced idea generation

ReadWriteWeb points to OhBoyObama as an “outsourced think tank.” The site allows users to submit policy ideas or proposals and the crowd to vote on them. The discussion about the site has focused largely on how it meshes (or doesn’t) with the campaign’s use of technology and its promises about data should the candidate become [...]