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Sponty is a great social calendar substitute and offers users a chance to plan impromptu events without the constraints of multiple registrations. What's interesting about this service is the fact that instead of offering us real-time event updates, it's more usefully giving us a look at real-time intentions. - Ian Wilker

"Tactical Tech is an international NGO helping human rights advocates use information, communications and digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy work. We provide advocates with guides, tools, training and consultancy to help them develop the skills and tactics they need to increase the impact of their campaigning." Makers of the "Message-in-a-Box," "Mobile-in-a-box," etc best-practices toolkits. - Ian Wilker

Good baseline checklist. - Ian Wilker

video of Marshall Ganz talking about Obama campaign. - Ian Wilker

"350 was more than just a day of action on climate change. It is rapidly becoming one of the great stories in the history of organizing. As more and more people access the tools to co-create, speak together, and self-organize, days of action like these are beginning to show us the tools and citizen leadership that will change organizing and non-profits in the same way that social media and citizen journalism transformed the news industry. For those who spend their careers at the nexus of grassroots community organizing, technology, and social change, this is quite simply as good as it gets -- at an unprecedented time of learning and change. So, how the hell did it happen? What was the extra secret sauce that enabled all of this to take place? And why is it shaking up the world of advocacy as we know it? Here's what I found after a weekend with this new generation of organizers -- and through many conversations leading up to the 24th. - Ian Wilker

echoditto's summary: ""Second, state-level staff seem eager to learn the lessons of Obama’s online fundraising, with the benefits of long-term list-building becoming obvious. Though many of the folks I spoke with were really just getting started in the online world, their questions focused on practical matters: mainly, how do we build our fundraising, which almost always led to classic issues of list-building, list-maintenance and supporter-activation. Notably, plenty of their organizations are also already invested in blogger-relations and are including bloggers in their media outreach as a matter of course." - Ian Wilker

echoditto's summary: "are web campaigns counterproductive, or is it a question of making sure they are oriented toward empowerment and continuing action and not 'slacktivism'? - Ian Wilker

Perhaps dated in this peer-to-peer age, but still stimulating regarding confrontational tactics. (Sometimes you need 'em.) - Ian Wilker

Still think Netvibes' white-label offering could be a nice offering for brands/organizations that (a) have customers who might be interested in a well-curated filter of the state of the vibe of everything related to the org's niche, something that mixes the org's content with the pick of content from the wild. And (b) the org has to have enough content to be relevant in such a rapidly updating context. - Ian Wilker

Great presentation - orgs that want to do social media do indeed need to cultivate a "network mindset." - Ian Wilker

Great job list available to members. - Ian Wilker

Rates of pay for freelance media pros; pretty comprehensive. - Ian Wilker

$35-$45, according to this page. Seems about right for c/e. - Ian Wilker

Pretty active forums. - Ian Wilker

Beth Kanter guest post on Solis' blog: "a four-part series about listening for nonprofit organizations summarizes the insights I’ve learned about listening." - Ian Wilker

Good gawd, Beth. (Another amazingly rich resource served up by the heroically generous ms. kanter) - Ian Wilker

"in order to have a successful social media or community program, you need some executive- or senior-level buy in for the long term. You’ve got to make a case to the executive team as to why this is important to your business and your customers." Good reality checks. - Ian Wilker

"information, resources, case studies, and best practices on issues companies and people face with emerging technologies ... published by Charlene Li." Lists: publically posted corporate socweb policies; consultants; boutiques; PR firms. - Ian Wilker

"information, resources, case studies, and best practices on issues companies and people face with emerging technologies ... published by Charlene Li." Lists: publically posted corporate socweb policies; consultants; boutiques; PR firms. - Ian Wilker

From the page: "If coal ash is safe to spread under a golf course or be used in carpets, why are the residents a Tenn. town being told to stay out of a river where the material was spilled? Lesley Stahl reports." - Ian Wilker

Very detailed post about the mechanics of using SU. Excellent. - Ian Wilker

"How to find the referrer URL from StumbleUpon to your site. (The problem: Google Analytics will show you only "refer.php" on SU site.) - Ian Wilker

Muhammed Saleem (major-league SU user) put together a hell of a list of best-practices and how-to articles. - Ian Wilker

Particularly like the inline validation and "you're done" microcopy. - Ian Wilker

"It’s fast, light, and deadly. It’s a short sentence, a phrase, a few words. A single word. It’s the small copy that has the biggest impact. Don’t judge it on its size…judge it on its effectiveness." - Ian Wilker

Awesome. Got to hand to Smashing Mag; they do righteous round-ups. - Ian Wilker

Tim Ferriss, who worked on su.pr - Ian Wilker

Great post re how SU's algorithm works. Check out the graphic, in particular. - Ian Wilker

Wow -- about 100 publicly available examples of how institutions of all stripes are dealing with employee blogging, participation in online communities, etc. - Ian Wilker

“Becoming an IA professional. Where to start, what qualifications / experience makes the grade?”. It follows a number of questions I’ve had recently from a number of people in BA and PM circles regarding the difference between the disciplines of Information Architecture and Data Architecture. - Ian Wilker

Adina Levin captures a great Twitter convo re leaderboards, point systems, competition, and user levels in social web apps. - Ian Wilker