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Bill White Campaigners Social Media Training View more presentations from Ed Schipul. I feel so honored to be a part of a special Social Media training for Mayor Bill White's Senate campaign volunteers today at the Houston Technology Center (MAJOR hat tip to Monica, Laura and Andrea White). You can link to Ed and I's [...]

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The 2008 election was a powerful experience, so what better way to start a new presidency, live blogging, with mimsoas and with some of my favorite gals: Karen Walrond of Chookooloonks and LensHouston Katherine Center Laura Mayes of Blog con Queso and Kirtsy Jenny of Good Mom/Bad Mom and The Bloggess Jodi Bash of The [...]

QuakerJake Originally uploaded by antebellumdisco I'm looking forward to breakfasting at Chookooloonk's (aka: Awesome Karen) house tomorrow morning.  Catered by Quaker Oats (wow, water – bowl- oatmeal = easiest catering gig ever??  <grin>) to help fight child hunger in America. Partially because I'll get to see some people I really like (see Jenny's blog post). [...]

aww yeah!!!!! Originally uploaded by lorigami Voting day has come and gone — and I sincerely hope you were in the poll lines making your voice heard.  Some thoughts on the election: Your citizenship doesn't end here, you did a great duty by casting your vote – but this is only the first step in [...]

Vote early and vote often — or hey, just vote period.

Continuing on the power of Qik motif (see Congressman Culberson’s live video activity here), Noel Hidalgo (aka:  @noneck) has been off changing the world again, this time stirring up trouble (in all the best ways) in China during the Olympics. He and John Hocevar (founder of Students for a Free Tibet) were interviewed by Amy [...]

As always, I’m loving the ways that technology is helping people organize and communicate on important issues.  The monastic uprising in Burma’s backlash is a perfect example of real humans connecting online to change the offline world.  Here’s how: 1.  Online education2.  Real world event planning3.  Solidarity through technology4.  Real voices, real stories How will [...]

Like a bajillion other people (‘bajillion = a highly technical count of users, incidentally), I use YouTube for brilliant video finds like GalagaGal’s ‘Waiting for a bus’ and Mr. Show videos.  But lately YouTube has been making me look/feel so much smarter by smashing really great political content into my ordinarily chuckle-induced online video world.  [...]

Some terrible news via the Bangkok Metblog on a new Cyberbill: Thailand’s National Legislative Assembly approved a controversial law this week which could seriously effect how Thailand’s internet users use the web. The main effect of the bill is to outlaw any attempt at bypassing government censors to access any of the thousands of sites [...]