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Session Notes: Person to Person - Exploring Social Networks & User Generated Content

By Sarah Pullman on 09/24/2006 - 12:25

with Philip King, Artez Interactive and Tom Williams, GiveMeaning

Session Notes: List Building vs. Community Building

By Sarah Pullman on 09/23/2006 - 03:26

Questions and discussion with Jodie Tonita

Session Notes: Progressive online media - Let's talk

By Kate Milberry on 09/22/2006 - 19:37

This session was organized talk-show style, with the ever-charismatic host Philip Smith, from Community Bandwidth. Philip welcomed the studio audience (it was being podcast) and introduced the panel: Michelle Hoar, from BC's political online publication, The Tyee; Dean Ericksen, from the environmental online daily, Grist; and Audrey Watson, from Yes!, a quarterly magazine dedicated to social justice issues.

Session Notes: Web 2.0 -- From Hype to Action

By nipun on 09/21/2006 - 21:52

Presenters: Roz (New Organizing Institute) and Michael (EchoDitto)

Session Notes: Putting Online Technology to Work for Social Change

By Kate Milberry on 09/21/2006 - 19:38

How can on-the-ground organizers in often volunteer-run non-profits take advantage of emergent technologies? Good question, damn good question, and one Leda Dederich tackled with boundless and infectious energy. Leda presented a “data dump” of results generated from a year’s worth of research done under the auspices of dotOrganize. Despite her energy, by her own admission Leda was tired; it caused her to swear, and express her desires for swearing in her official report. Someone who speaks my language (yes, “swear” is a language in some parts).

Turning Your Cause into Compelling Content -- Jonah Sachs, Free Range Graphics

By Matt Thompson on 09/21/2006 - 17:16

Keys to successful story-telling:

Focus your story where people already are.

Where is your audience at? Start from there, instead of trying to push them somewhere else.

Session Notes: Titilating Technology

By Kate Milberry on 09/21/2006 - 17:09

Maybe you know Ruckus Society, maybe you don't. But for those of us who didn't know Adrienne Maree Brown before today's session, we won't be forgetting her any time soon. For starters, she made us sing. I was fine with that but, not being a singer (in fact, being almost tone deaf) I didn't know this meant standing up. One gets lazy once one has parked one's ass on the floor.

Session Notes: Integrating Toolsets - Technology That Works Nice

By Kyle Tanner on 09/21/2006 - 16:50

Raven House, Hollyhock Retreat Center, Cortes Island
Conference: Web of Change 2006, woc2006
Presenters: Michael Silberman & Steve Anderson
Opening: Presenter's self-introduction

Greening our Event thanks to ZeroFootprint

By Jason Mogus on 09/15/2006 - 02:48

As you've probably noticed by now, getting all the way to Cortes Island isn't so easy. And I doubt any of us will be canoeing there - we'll all be burning fossil fuels of some amount to make our way from where we live to the gathering. And at the conference, we'll be using paper for our participants package and energy at Hollyhock's facilities.

Kickass Keynotes at Web of Change

By Sarah Pullman on 08/30/2006 - 21:39

We've been hard at work this past few weeks lining up and confirming the keynote speakers for Web of Change next month. We're very excited about them and we think you will be too!Our very own Madeline Stanionis will open the conference with an informal chat about her lessons learned from over a decade in the trenches.

Keynote: Lessons from the world's biggest interactive event

By Jason Mogus on 08/30/2006 - 00:55

We are happy to announce that Martin Gil will be joining us this year from the UK as one of our keynote speakers. Martin is the new media manager for Comic Relief, and led online projects for Live8 and MakePovertyHistory.org.

Diversity Scholarship Fund

By Natalie Fitz-Earle on 07/31/2006 - 15:35

Last fall, a bunch of motivated Web of Change participants conceived an idea to create and donate to a scholarship fund for this year’s Web of Change, a fund that would provide travel/tuition scholarships to those who could bring unique geographic, ethnic or cultural perspectives to WOC 2006. Springing from their profound gratitude for the experience and a desire to give something back, the Diversity Scholarship Fund, administered through the Hollyhock Leadership Institute, now holds $1500 CND!

Hollyhock has a new website!

By Sarah Pullman on 06/30/2006 - 05:48

Our friends at Hollyhock, the amazing place where we hold Web of Change every year, have just launched their beautiful new website.

Social Change Institute Podcasts Up

By Sarah Pullman on 06/23/2006 - 17:03

Back in May there was a conference up at Hollyhock that I was very sad to miss – the Social Change Institute. (I used to work for the Hollyhock Leadership Insitute and it's events like that that make me wish I still did...) It was a gathering of visionaries in the social change world, and it sounded pretty incredible. You can read Jason's report-out here on an earlier blog post, if you haven't already.

WineCamp, NetSquared... and Us

By Sarah Pullman on 06/07/2006 - 02:09

I've been back for a few days from my California trip now, and meaning to write about my experiences at both the NetSquared Conference, and WineCamp. Between the two of them I learned a conference_lookout lot, and also had a lot of opportunity to reflect on the differences in the offerings, and where Web of Change fits in. At the risk of tooting our own horn, I think that Web of Change combines the best of both of those events. And that's why you should come this fall!

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