Dallas One of the most amazing things about being an organizer, whether of community or labor-based organizations, remains the excitement of learning deeply what people really want – and expect – of their own organizations. For 33 years, Local 100 of the United Labor Unions has held an annual leadership conference. Many times it is largely …
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Twitter is Not Going to Make It: Too Passive, Too Clunky
Dallas The number two guy at Twitter resigned to no one’s surprise, since he had been selling off his stock like there was no tomorrow. He had been promoted to try to expand their markets and audience and get some growth going, but given the disappointing growth on the micro-blogging site, his job was the …
Skyping Reports and Global Organizing Debates
Bristol After discussions of progress with the Remittance Justice Campaign and the Digital Access Opportunity Campaign in a number of countries, we hunkered down with some excitement to hear the reports on Skype from India, Kenya, and our Latin America offices. Many of the reports had been sent in writing to great comments. Applause greeted …