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Monday, June 22, 2009
Last fall, I had the opportunity to attend and cover the September 11th Presidential Forum on Service during the Service Nation conference in New York City. During the conference, Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator Ted Kennedy, represented by his niece, Caroline Kennedy, announced that they were introducing the Serve America Act of 2008.
 
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new.   From an article in the New York Times dated April, 1896 about the Hackensack Hospital's Charity Ball)       . events morph and change.   event.
 
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. That’s ok.
 

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Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. history, the candidates for president have raised more than $1 Billion. Voter registration is headed for new highs across the nation -- with a firestorm of newly registered voters under the age of thirty. We can learn a great deal from the best practices of Election 2008.
I just got back from doing a plenary session at the Arts Summit organized by the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations. It's gathering of arts leader from throughout New York State. have a long history with the arts community in New York. I don't crawl under desks anymore, I'm too old). stuff.
raquo; February 14, 2008 PreOrder: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations Clay has pulled together a solid theory of organizing and networks. can not wait for the new book and hope everyone picks up a copy. can not wait for the new book and hope everyone picks up a copy. del.icio.us/networks
3, 2008: "NEW YORK (Fortune) -- 'Technology is making more changes in our way of life than ever in human history,' says Muhammad Yunus. Muhammed Yunus on tech, profit, and the poor - Apr. The way the Internet and the mobile phone are spreading, you cannot compare with any technology of the past.' He and the Grameen.
It’s been a cascade of announcements all about the new platform strategies of what is rapidly developing into the Blackbaud and Convio camps. On the other hand, the automatic exposure of new tables through the existing Kintera API means that once you build a custom table in Kintera, other applications can see it through web services.
Dan Schwabel's  5 Free Tools For Reputation Management introduced me to a new listening tool, backtype.  New York Times via Ed Philp ,??? The service notifies users when new comments are left, and allows the user to post new comments to his/her blog. How will you respond to negative. comments?
And Social Justice Leadership, a group that offers tools and trainings to grassroots organizers in New York City. History has proven, and we know today, that they are a core part of effective social movements in the United States. In a previous post, Spirituality, Religion and Activism: What's the Connection?
think that is an area in which in our new strategic plan we are really committed to strengthening that understanding of how do all these efforts collectively contribute to stronger, more sustainable, more democratic communities. It is a good thing we are doing this in Women's History Month. BB: How do you know that you are successful?
recently was forwarded a post from David Duthie (of the UN Environment Program) that spotted a new application: truth in sushi labeling. I've written about Dan Janzen's idea for a DNA barcoding device , which you could use to identify the different kinds of life you encounter.
At the same time, I had been writing a lot on new communication technologies such as satellites, digital media, cell phones, and so on. Like all new ideas and technologies, it was not perfect, but it did give birth to the political world we have now. September 4, 2008 | Hatef Copyright © 2008, Care2.com , Inc.