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The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0

David Wyld's widely lauded report on The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0 (98 page PDF) is of much broader relevance than its title suggests. His insights into CEO and employee blogging outside of government are valuable and his ten tips for public sector bloggers are applicable to anyone in civil society who is ready to move toward more open and personal models of communication. Those ten tips are: (1) Define yourself and your purpose. (2) Do it yourself! (3) Make a time commitment. (4) Be regular. (5) Be generous. (6) Have a “hard hide.” (7) Spell-check. (8) Don’t give too much information. (9) Consider multimedia. (10) Be a student of blogging. Posted: 7/1/07; 8:03:07 PM #

Finding Strategy: A Survey of Contemporary Contributions to Progressive Strategy

Near the end of last year, Wolfgang Brauner and Charles Knight of the Commonwealth Institute finished a report entitled Finding Strategy: A Survey of Contemporary Contributions to Progressive Strategy (59 page PDF). I recommend this report to any leader in civil society who feels that they are in some way part of a larger movement for a just and peaceful society. Although this report leaves out a few very important modern strategies related to economic organizing and to global movements, it is a critical contribution in the area of approaches that might affect politics in the United States. Their approach includes looking at objectives, assessment, tactics, dynamics, resources, and evaluation for each of the strategies. The strategies they examine include many that I have discussed in these pages, such as: Green Party politics, "netroots" organizing, the Movement Action Plan, and the Apollo Alliance. Posted: 7/1/07; 7:48:12 PM #