What’s the Place for Location Awareness in Advocacy?
Facebook Places has people all atwitter about the promise of location awareness. Commercial interests have already begun to take small steps toward turning existing services, like Foursquare and Gowalla, into money-making machines. Digital advocates will not be left on the side of the road, either. Chris Connelly offers up a good blog post with some ideas on how Places fits into the advocacy toolkit. The views he expresses are valid, and his admonition not to get caught up in location … [Read More...]
The Petition as an Online Activism Tool
"The truth is, online petitions to Congress and others are pretty much a sham." So says Clay Johnson in a recent blog post where he calls into question the merits not just of petitions specifically but of "calls to action" generally. Alas, he's wrong. Petitions serve a number of valuable roles -- both for the individual activist and the organization hosting the petition. It is through this mutual benefit that petitions succeed or fail. Certainly, there are bad actors and poorly constructed … [Read More...]
Your Cameraman is … a Robot?!
My colleague Ge Yu presents an interesting concept over on the DCI Group blog. Are robots the future of video technology? Our clients increasingly benefit from the power of web video -- both recorded and live content. With multiple simultaneous events, however, manpower becomes an issue. Sure, we can outsource the overload, but that racks up additional costs for us and our clients. So we're always looking for ways to make the process more economical. Ge suggests that something like … [Read More...]
