Posted on April 22, 2008 by 40brown
There’s been a lot of buzz about using maps in advocacy, and its been something I’ve been meaning to explore further. I knew about the use of maps to see that damage done in Darfur (you can track as village go missing, and as communities are destroyed in Zimbabwe). And as neat as these were, [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by 40brown
The Center for American Progress holds a monthly event called the Internet Advocacy Roundtable. Today’s roundtable is called “Party On…line with the Republican and the Democratic parties.
I’ll be attending this event and invite you to follow along! Please feel free to post any comments of questions.
If you are seeing this after the fact, you can [...]
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Posted on April 3, 2008 by 40brown
This morning I read about a web application called Jott.com, which uses voice recognition to let users send email and text by speaking. The idea is that you call a phone number, select the destination of your message, then speak. The voice recognition program then turns your speech into text and will then send it [...]
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Posted on March 24, 2008 by 40brown
What do Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama and Oscar Morales of northern Colombia have in common?
They all use FaceBook (with varying success) to call people to action. But Morales has had far greater success than either of the Democratic candidates.
Earlier this year, Morales created the FaceBook group, One Million Voices Against the FARC and used [...]
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