Initially started as notes for Jon Pincus' presentation at the workshop on Activism and Education Using Social Networks.
please help by filling in links and additional references
- Facebook Becomes Catalyst for Causes, Colombian FARC Protest by Jennifer Woodard Maderazo discusses Facebook's role in the 100-city, multi-million person worldwide rallies against FARC in February.
- Economist article
- Twitter and blogs after Egyptian activists are arrested. (References needed!)
- Also see Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everyone
- Courage Campaign's anti-Blackwater activism in Southern California
- Video
- Town of Potrero votes out city council and changes stance
- Blackwater changes plans (AP article)
- Petition to Pelosi
- Letter to San Diego Mayor about new permit
- Mashups
- Netsquared's contest
- Focused on Facebook
- Free the Blackadder One: 2,700 members; Derek Blackadder's account was restored. See How to respond when Facebook censors your political speech on the Wired How-to Wiki for more examples of people's accounts being disabled when Facebook confuses political activism and spam.
- Petition: Facebook, stop invading my privacy!; 80,000 members; Facebook changed Beacon's policies and apologized
- Official Facebook Petition: To ban the inviting of friends on Applications; 1,000,000+ members, led to change in Facebook's policies for application developers
- 2008 US presidential election
- Will the 2008 USA election be won on Facebook? by Linnie Rawlinson on CNN International
- Ron Paul Boston Tea Party
- ClintonAttacksObama wiki
- Wiki to track Clinton Attacks on Obama by Baratunde Thurston on GoodCrimeThink, crossposted on Jack and Jill Politics
- Comedian Starts a Wiki To Track Attacks on Obama by Sarah Lai Stirland on Wired's THREAT LEVEL
- the Clinton Attacks Obama Wiki
- Black Blogosphere Proves Potent Force in Story of Race in the New South, by Reggie Royston of the Maynard Institute, interviewing Howard Witt of the Chicago Tribune
- "Yes we can" do grassroots activism on Facebook, by Jon Pincus on Liminal States, with some statistics tracing views of the will.i.am video
- iLike's role in video propgation by Tony Thielen on Liminal States
- Does “Obama Girl” help Obama?, Farhad Manjoo interviewing Clay Shirky in Salon’s Machinist
- Double Bubble Trouble/"Count every vote" == need a chronology here similar to Operation Chaos. possible starting place here
- Obama's MySpace Delegates, by Ari Melber on The Nation's Campaign Matters
- Inside Obama’s Surging Net-Roots Campaign by Sarah Lai Stirland on Wired
- Finding Political News Online, the Young pass it on by Brian Stelter in the New York Times'
- YES WE DID!!!, message from Matt Adler to members of his Facebook group after he was selected as a delegate to the DNC, quoted on Liminal States
- Students revolutionize access to voting: voter registration from Facebook (for Washington and Arizona, the only two of the 50 US states that allow online registration)
- Wiki Woman: The battle to define Hillary online by Eve Fairbanks in The New Republic
- Operation Chaos chronology, here on the CFP community wiki
- McCain campaign including Democratic bloggers in conference calls on OpenLeft
- examples from Adam Sargant of Sitewriters] in the UK
- International Activism Network on Small Arms - developed at short notice their for ther www.iansa.org/stoptheship...shipment.php campaign which achieved over 6 thousand signatures in about 6 days if I recall correctly... not massive by AVAAZ standards, but achieved almost entirely virally.
- Garstang, the world's first fair trade town
- Climate Stewards - carbon footprint calculator (a re-write is planned later this year so that the emphasis moves from offsetting to lifestyle management)
- Conciliation Resources - "the shop is a particular bespoke piece of code, because they had many specific needs that would have been compromised badly if an off the shelf product had been used"
- WorthBroadcasting, a central directory from Sitewriters for podcasts and vidcasts from charitable, voluntary and campaigning organisations, as well as a central resource for podcasting and vidcasting tutorials and tools
ACLU (Eric's presentation):
- blog
- Flickr
- on Facebook -- account currently disabled!
Ben Masel: 2006 Democratic Senate primary in Wisconsin, a MySpace-based campaign -- spent less than $1000