TweetProgress: Building Progressive Infrastructure on Twitter

TweetProgress is a Twitter activist project I launched with partners Jim Gilliam, Jon Pincus, and Gina Cooper.  TweetProgress is a directory of progressives on Twitter meant to provide the basic infrastructure for social action on Twitter.  TweetProgress aims to:

To help progressives find each other and follow each other on Twitter.
To encourage more progressives to use [...]

Twitter Hashtags Built for Speed

I’ve been thinking a lot about the best ways to social and political movements on Twitter lately. Organizing on Twitter centers around the use of hashtags, and I’ve detailed my latest example of organizing around hashtags in my post “#taxcuts: Creating Twitter Hashtags that Inspire Action.” Soon after, Jon Pincus [...]

Nevada Interactive Media Summit

For those of you keeping track, my new project is Nevada Interactive Media and the first annual NNM Summit to be held on March 7th, 2009 at the University of Nevada, Reno. Nevada Interactive Media is co-sponsored by the Reynolds School of Journalism and includes a great advisory board. My co-founder and partner [...]

Twitter Vote Report & Voter Suppression Wiki

I’m working on two fantastic voter projects right now that you should know about.

Voter Suppression Wiki

The Voter Suppression Wiki serves as a directory of information on how to protect your own vote, as well as the votes of others, during this election season. The Voter Suppression Wiki is a repository of voter suppression information [...]