'Stuff' Worth Seeing

We all have web sites, articles, video, audio, papers, networks, communities and many other things that we have found useful in our work with e-campaigning. Share those with others here when you remember or find them - including during and after the 2007 eCampaigning Forum.

This will also be put on del.icio.us but since not everyone will have an account, this is more accessible to add things.

ecampaigning tag on del.icio.us --brianfit, Mon, 07 May 2007 04:51:18 -0500 reply

I recently discovered this: http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=ecampaigning&type=all Good collection, well worth taking further.

Peer to Peer/ bottom up/paradigm shift --SofiaBustamante?, Tue, 08 May 2007 08:14:43 -0500 reply

I highly recommend seeing some or all of the video clips at the link below. What Michel Bauwens describes within these clips amounts to a paradigm shifts as big as when Marxism entered the social and political landscape.

http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/09/29/network_collaboration_peer_to_peer.htm

It will increasingly effect the way we organise politically and certainly the way we campaign and describes the relationship dynamics in any non-hierarchical distributed network.

For example, filtering mechanisms for participation happen after, and not before they have been made visible to the collective. Anyone can take part in the verification of contributions rather than a select group who are the only ones that have access to information about participants.. This essentially supports a ‘bottom-up’ approach to governance.

Michel Bauwens explains it very well in the video and the following article: (The political economy or peer production)

http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=499

Anne Fox, Mencap --duane, Tue, 08 May 2007 17:37:11 -0500 reply

we developed a campaigns starter pack last year which is basically everything you need to know to run an effective campaign. it's pitched at people with a learning disability who can read easy words with accessible accompanying images (known as easy read) and is suitable for anyone who's new to campaigning ,or at least strategically, and is free of charge.

It's available to download (in three parts) from http://www.mencap.org.uk/html/campaigns/campaignpack.asp

From rolf:

Have a look at http://www.socialsourcecommons.org, it's a social networking site where you can create toolboxes with tools (software, websites) you use in your work, find information on tools, and see who is using them as well. Looking in your contacts' toolboxes can help you find tools that they use and might fit your purpose as well.