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To access links, see Steven Clift's blog: http://dowire.org/notes/?p=243 Post: Event - The British Invasion: Innovations in Online Activism from mySociety.org - 13 July 2006 - Washington, DC At the Amherst conference the other week, I noted how I wished the MySociety cluster of UK projects would inspire similar national level non-partisan citizen-centric e-democracy activities in the U.S.. Those in DC, now have a chance to learn about real e-democracy innovation close up on July 13 from Tom Steinberg with mySociety.Org. Tell Alan I sent you, maybe he'll buy me a beer when I am in DC later in the month. Steven Clift http://dowire.org P.S. If you are interested in e-politics - online advocacy, e-activism, campaigning online, etc. reserve your spot in the proposed online community of practice for hard-nosed e-political hacks: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/e-politics From: Alan Rosenblatt Seats are still available for the July 13 Internet Advocacy Roundtable! Reserve yours today for: The British Invasion: Innovations in Online Activism from mySociety.org Join us on Thursday, July 13, 2006 for a rare opportunity to talk with Tom Steinberg of mySociety.org about innovations in online activism from across the pond. mySociety.org has created a variety of online activism resources, including http://www.HearFromYourMP.com, http://www.TheyWorkForYou.com, http://www.WriteToThem.com (which used to be called FaxYourMP), http://www.NotApathetic.com, and http://www.PledgeBank.com, which are all examples of the type of services mySociety aims to foster. While HearFromYourMP, TheyWorkForYou and WriteToThem are designed to service UK citizens who want to communicate with Parliament, PledgeBank and NotApathetic are resources that we can all use to promote collective social activism and voting. PledgeBank allows anyone to create a pledge which has the basic format 'I'll do something, but only if other people will pledge to do the same thing'. For example, if you'd always want to organize a street party you could organize a pledge which said 'I'll hold a street party, but only if three people who live in my street will help me to run it.' Imagine if someone pledged to donate $100 to your organization if 1,000 other people did so, as well. Once the last person signs on, you would get $100,000. HearFromYourMP takes a unique approach to constituent-representative communications. By signing up on the site, a citizen is added to a queue of other people in their legislative district. When enough have signed up, their MP gets sent an email. The email says "25 of your constituents would like to hear what you're up to. Hit reply to let them know". If they don't reply, nothing will happen, until your MP gets a further email which says there are now 50, then 75, 100, 150 ? until it is nonsensical not to reply and start talking. We are certain you will find this to be a fascinating discussion about new ways to approach online advocacy. Please join us. When: Thursday, July 13, 2006, Noon -� 2:00 PM Where: 1341 G Street, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC Cost: $60, lunch included Speaker: Tom Steinberg, mySociety.org Tom Steinberg is mySociety.org's founder and its only full timer. By trade he was a Westminster policy wonk, serving time with the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit. In his spare time he is a technology aficionado, having been a SysAdmin, a gamer, and having written opinion pieces for the Register. *** Democracies Online Newswire - http://DoWire.Org *** To comment/for links: http://dowire.org/notes/?p=243 To network: http://groups.dowire.org Submit posts: http://dowire.org/submit Member profile for Steven: http://groups.dowire.org/main/contacts/stevenclift ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail: http://groups.dowire.org/main/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/topic/119567 For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
