Priestly House to Re-Open (hoo-ray!)

The Friends of Joseph Priestley House Museum will reopen the site for weekend
tours beginning Saturday, Oct. 3.  Heritage Day, a grand reopening event will be held
Sunday, Nov. 1 from 1-4 p.m., it was announced at the group’s annual meeting Thursday
in Northumberland, PA.
The site has been closed since mid-August due to the state’s budget emergency, which
forced [...]

Ethics and Information on Listservs (SOCNET)

Over at Socnet, the listserv (what is a listserv, anyway?  A-ha.) that has been so valuable for me over the years as I found networks and worked through how to do something productive with them, a debate has been unfolding over the posting of a research position with a military agency that would involve using [...]

Ethics Pledge at Harvard BS

A Promise to Be Ethical in an Era of Immorality – NYTimes.com
What happened to making money?
I should write more, but a few issues come to mind.  First, it is a student-led program to take an ethics pledge.  Maybe this is a furhter data point of a generational value shift from Gen Xers to Millenials.  Second, [...]

Social Entrepreneurs, Networks, and Technology

I am revising a draft of a paper about social entrepreneurs to give at EGOS.
Here is the core idea:
Broadly, I am trying to connect what is known about the research into new forms of organizing with internet with innovation and networks studies
Some baseline assumptions:
1) Innovators and entrepreneurs of any flavor are in a brokerage position [...]

Local Health Care Forum

Helping to Publicize…
On behalf of the Central Susquehanna Citizen’s Coalition, I would like to
invite you to a forum entitled
“Re-Imagining Healthcare in Pennsylvania: The Next Five Years and Beyond”
to be held next Thursday, May 7, at 7:00pm, in the Union County Government
Center at 155 N 15th St, Lewisburg.
A panel of five healthcare professionals will discuss the [...]

Monkey-wrenching Land Grabs in Utah

A dailyKos diarist put me on to this new form of civil disobedience.
Reminds me of Saul Alinsky and Kodak or Ralph NAder and GM in the 1960s and the birth of shareholder activism.
He didn’t pour sugar into a bulldozer’s gas tank. He didn’t spike a tree or set a billboard on fire. But wielding only [...]

No blank check for Wall Street.

No blank check for Wall Street.
This is worse than a bad deal – this isn’t a deal at all. This is a blank check to some of the richest companies in the world.
This is a blog post with a petition linked to  it.  I may not agree with all the language, but this is not [...]

Climate Change Song- “Get Down Into It”

YouTube – Get Down Into It
Local musicians and citizens raising awareness fueled by digital and living web technologies.  Look for me and Thea in early part.

Chain letters explained…

nsf.gov – News – How Did That Chain Letter Get To My Inbox? – US National Science Foundation NSF
Everyone who has an e-mail account has probably received a forwarded chain letter promising good luck if the message is forwarded on to others–or terrible misfortune if it isnt. The sheer volume of forwarded messages such as [...]

Last Chance to Apply to Be an Obama Organizing Fellow!

Maybe some current or former students check in…
Maybe this campaign is going to be a case study in managerialism in politics married to netroots.  Centrally controlled message and tight finances (managerialism) with people2peole tools and emergent organizing on the ground (netroots).  so, this counts as an OT post also.  :<)
Barack Obama : : Change We [...]