I was recently invited to the Facebook group ‘Millennium Student Initiative @ MyMSI.org‘, the first step of what looks to be a very promising attempt to unite area campuses and harness student activism on a wide scale. Their mission? Millennium Student Initiative (MSI) is a national student-led campaign that aims to increase global consciousness and [...]
Hey all. So I realize I haven’t posted much lately. That’s because my body decided to punish me for all the sleep I was missing over the last week or so. Too bad. Point is, I’m slowly rejoining humanity / blogging. Deal with it.
I’m here at Netroots Nation (of course) at the ‘ask the Speaker” event. Nancy Pelosi will be here for about 2 hours answering questions from all these grassroots activists. Gina Cooper (the charming / kick-ass organizer of the conference) is introducing the event. One item - any organized disruption will end the event and the offenders will be thrown out of [...]
There seems to be a big divide here between people here for themselves and those here for organizations. There also seems to be a (related?) divide between the idealistic grassroots and cynical operatives. And many “big name bloggers” seem to be operatives. I was talking to one the other day, and we had a very [...]
John Hlinko (of Grassroots Enterprise) teach. I type. You read. Lessons – 1: Measure, don’t assume 2: Give people what they want 3: Find the multipliers Find the influential people who can spread to their friends. What content inspires multipliers? topical. in the news emotionally impactful (humor, anger, etc) cognitive dissonance Dash of Beavis and [...]
Arshad Hasan of DFA is moderating. Hooray for DFA! For a more amusing take on the whole thing, check out my friend Ned Resnikoff’s liveblog at Veritosity. Much more concise and easy to read. Arshad talks about his status as a non-impartial person. But oh well. Markos gives his standard speech. Talks about standing up [...]
