The Dead, Extremism, List Building, Goals, Policy, Awards

[Leila Kaas]

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> Section One: Special Notices
> - Support Nonprofit Online News
> - Our Next Online Seminar
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> Section Two: News & Resources
> - Anti-Abortion Extremism Online
> - Mashable's 2009 Open Web Awards
> - Policy Project on the Social Economy
> - Small Steps to a Larger Goal
> - Building Your Online List: A High Integrity Model, Seminar on
> Dec. 16, 2009
> - Names of the Dead
> - Light a Fire: Successful Social Marketing for Nonprofits,
> Seminar on Dec. 9, 2009
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> Section Three: Copyright
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> Section Four: Subscription Information
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> ++ Section One: Special Notices:
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> ++ Section Two: News & Resources:
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> + Anti-Abortion Extremism Online
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> Sadly, Muslim charities are more often labeled as terrorists in
> the U.S. than anti-abortion extremists who genuinely organize
> violent actions. But First Monday has some interesting research
> into Anti-Abortion Extremism Online that gives us a very good look
> at the line that gets crossed when activism turns into aggression.
> The article is also a lesson in the layers and complexities of
> online organizing and community and the various roles played by
> different people and sites. This is a worthwhile read.
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> http://news.gilbert.org/clickThru/redir/7168/292462/rms
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> + Mashable's 2009 Open Web Awards
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> Mashable's 2009 Open Web Awards has a range of categories that
> might be of interest to you. They include: best nonprofit use of
> social media, social media agency, best social media maven to
> follow, best blogger to follow, and most inspiring to follow. I'm
> fairly skeptical of popularity contests masquerading as "best of"
> anything, but still, I would like to see my readers weigh in on this.
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> http://news.gilbert.org/clickThru/redir/7167/292462/rms
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> + Policy Project on the Social Economy
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> In the context of a range of efforts including new rating and
> reporting systems and increased citizen participation in publicly
> accessible data, Lucy Berholz proposes a Policy Project on the
> Social Economy. She's asking people to help her assess the public
> policies that affect civil society. She asks the right simple
> questions, provides a number of ways to participate, and has
> started a great little mindmap of ideas.
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> http://news.gilbert.org/clickThru/redir/7166/292462/rms
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> + Small Steps to a Larger Goal
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> Steve Anderson's Small Steps to a Larger Goal is a very wise
> take on what criteria to use when you are working with others
> toward a large long-term goal. It might not be as applicable to
> solo projects like writing a book, but it really does apply to what
> most of us are doing most of the time. In brief, his priorities
> are: (1) Get other people unstuck. (2) Show visible movement in the
> right direction. (3) Avoid creating a substantial amount of
> followup support. (4) Take into account the cost of undoing or
> fixing the work. (5) Put off decisions you can afford to put off.
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> http://news.gilbert.org/clickThru/redir/7165/292462/rms
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> + Building Your Online List: A High Integrity Model, Seminar on
> Dec. 16, 2009
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> I spend a lot of time teaching my clients how to deepen their
> relationships with existing stakeholders. But sometimes, you just
> need to build or expand that list of stakeholders in the first
> place! There are lots of weak and disappointing ways to do that.
> And plenty more ways that are marginally ethical. That's why I'm
> teaching this workshop, coming up on December 16, 2009: Building
> Your Online List: A High Integrity Model for Reaching Large Numbers
> on the Internet. We cover every important list-building method -
> social media, media transitions, chaperoning, campaigns, etc - and
> put them in the context of a scalable, sustainable program.
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> http://news.gilbert.org/clickThru/redir/7164/292462/rms
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> + Names of the Dead
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> In this time and place - the United States on the cusp of a huge
> choice about health care - there is no more important blog than
> Names of the Dead. It's a video blog actually and a very unusual
> one. The posts are of Alan Grayson, on the floor of the U.S.
> Congress, reading the stories of people who have died due to the
> lack of health insurance, as submitted by their loved ones. Please,
> read this and pass it on to anyone you know who has a story to
> tell. Sadly, there are too many. Over 40,000 a year, in fact,
> including: Jack Snell (51, Cook, MN), Jim Shoe (22, Park Ridge,
> IL), Cindy Rhea (30's, Knoxville, TN), Rhonda Petrey (44, Toledo,
> OH), Clifford Scott (52, Tallahassee, FL), Louis Bruce Witherspoon
> (61, Anaheim, CA)....
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> http://news.gilbert.org/clickThru/redir/7163/292462/rms
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> + Light a Fire: Successful Social Marketing for Nonprofits,
> Seminar on Dec. 9, 2009
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> We're all attracted to the notion of "social marketing" and who
> wouldn't be, when it holds the promise of extending our reach far
> beyond our own lists of stakeholders. But so long as we approach
> social marketing in the same channel-oriented way as we approach
> the rest of our marketing, we're going to have meager results at
> best. Furthermore, as a sector, we're putting 80% of our efforts
> into the media that gives 20% of the results. If you're interested
> in turning this around for your organization, you might want to
> consider an upcoming seminar: Light a Fire: Successful Social
> Marketing for Nonprofits. It will be held live, online, on December
> 9, 2009.
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