CivicActions

When I heard about the Social Tech Training being organized by our friends over at Web Of Change it sounded awesome. As the agenda and speakers came out, my expectations were confirmed.

A few weeks ago someone pointed me toward this interesting writeup of 50 social sites, it is geared toward sites where businesses should try to build and maintain a presence, but I think that it is applicable for NPO and NGOs too.

The article is split into 5 sections:

• Social-Media/Social-Bookmarking Sites
• Professional-Networking Sites
• Niche Social-Media Sites
• General Social-Media Sites
• Job Sites

On November 7th, CivicActions launched the WITNESS Video Hub, (more information about the Hub can be found here on our site).

When I learned to ski, it was difficult to 'get' that when I wanted to slow down...I needed to lean down the hill. That was just plain scary.

In the early days of the net, it was similarly difficult to learn that to build bigger networks meant that I had to let go of more control. As a business person, I've had years of conditioning that 'control' was the biggest key to success. Perhaps it's the nature of the network protocol itself that rewards openness.