New Orleans We do not screen calls in any of our offices. We are a membership organization and the membership can never think that there is a chance that they would not be allowed to talk to anyone when they are calling. I got a call yesterday out of the blue from Roger Davidson. Roger, as …
Category: Community Organizing
ACORN in Second Life?
New Orleans One of the things I am certain is a mistake is to claim that I am up to date about the wild world of the web (www!). Recently a couple of emails alerted me to a level of virtual weirdness that seemed both startling and bizarre. Here’s the bottom line. Seems there is …
Fighting for Space
Tokyo, Japan Changing planes during my 24 hours of travel back to the United States, it struck me that in both Korea and Turkey I recently heard very interesting stories of community based organizations in difficult markets fighting municipal authorities for office space — and winning! These things matter because in tight and expensive markets the ability …