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Topic: MoveOn.org

  
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Democracy in Action

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 97
Sun Mar 14, 2004 at 3:50 PM

As campaigns director for MoveOn, Eli Pariser oversees a million-plus address email list comprising progressive activists. Zack Exley serves as MoveOn's organizing director, a position that allows him to combine his background in ...READ»

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Two Cheers For The Four-Day Workweek

BY Anya Kamenetz
Relevancy Score: 79
Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 11:06 AM

In the downturn, more companies are cutting labor costs without layoffs by scaling back the amount of time their employees work: four-day workweeks, unpaid vacation, and forced furloughs. Unlike the disappearance of 401(k) ...READ»

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Lending Club and Virgin Money Team Up to Salve the Recession With Social Network Lending

BY Anya Kamenetz
Relevancy Score: 74
Wed Feb 25, 2009 at 11:42 AM

Credit card companies are canceling your account. Student loans, home mortgages, and auto loans are all getting harder to obtain, and the big bank where I have an account is insolvent; how about yours?   Starting today, ...READ»

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Putting People Back into the Process

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 55
Sun Mar 14, 2004 at 5:24 PM

Joe Trippi is former campaign manager for Howard Dean. He is generally credited with conceptualizing the decentralized Internet-based structure that helped the governor of Vermont build early momentum in the bid for the Democratic ...READ»

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Can Citizen Action Stop Climate Change?

BY Anya Kamenetz
Relevancy Score: 39
Thu Feb 19, 2009 at 12:17 PM

Next week, 10,000 students and youth will converge on the Capitol for a massive lobby day to demand action on climate change and green jobs. On March 2, thousands of people have pledged to commit nonviolent civil disobedience at ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  1 comment

The L Factor

BY Seth Godin
Relevancy Score: 35
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:46 AM

What accounts for success and failure? More often than you might think, it's just luck. But like most things, luck can be managed.READ»

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Cowards of the Year: 2003-2004 Edition

BY Michael Aneiro and Melissa Korn
Relevancy Score: 33
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:45 AM

This flock of chickens is really something to cluck over.READ»

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Technology: How Far and How Fast We've Come

BY Shel Horowitz
Relevancy Score: 28
Tue Jan 27, 2009 at 9:45 AM

Just watched the video of Steve Jobs introducing the first Macintosh, in January 1984.Maybe those of you were under ten years old at the time will be wondering, what's with all the cheering, it doesn't do much. But it was ...READ»

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Leadership: 2007 Communication Faux Pas Hall Of Fame

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 21
Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 10:19 AM

As of this post, I will have been a Fast Company blogger for exactly a year. It’s been a great ride, working with the folks at Fast Company, especially Lynne d Johnson, who has been an enormous help from he very beginning. It’s ...READ»

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How Networks Change Politics

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 21
Sun Apr 4, 2004 at 1:19 PM

Micah Sifry co-edited the Iraq War Reader. A senior analyst at Public Campaign, Sifry was formerly the Middle East editor for The Nation. His talk at WTF 2004 addressed whether some of the changes in political organizing that new ...READ»

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Women Who Tech Telesummit Today


Relevancy Score: 21
Tue May 12, 2009 at 8:39 AM

Defying the stereotype that the tech world belongs to pocket-protector toting guys hooked on sci-fi and video games; hundreds of women are gearing up for the second annual "Women Who Tech" international telesummit on May 12 at ...READ»

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Joe Trippi Stays in the Picture

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 19
Mon Jul 12, 2004 at 3:56 PM

The last time we saw Joe Trippi, Howard Dean's former Internet guru and campaign manager, he was disheveled and sleep-deprived, hunched over a laptop behind a messy desk at the Dean for America headquarters in Burlington, Vermont. ...READ»

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Mobile Communication, Pervasive Computing, and Collective Action

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 18
Mon Mar 15, 2004 at 3:48 PM

Howard Rheingold was one of the creators HotWired, as well as editor of The Whole Earth Review and editor-in-chief of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. More recently, Rheingold wrote the book Smart Mobs: The Next Social ...READ»

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Who is Sylvia?

BY Alan Deutschman
Relevancy Score: 17
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:19 AM

One of the most effective behind-the-scenes connectors in the Valley, Sylvia Paul, started out throwing some of the hottest parties at computer-industry conventions in the '80s. Now she links the hard-core geeks, entrepreneurs, media insiders, and the political activists, too.READ»

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Facebook Abandons Intrusive Beacon Ads, Partners with Nielsen BrandLift

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 16
Tue Sep 22, 2009 at 7:21 AM

Remember when Facebook's advertising system Beacon used to get all in your face with self-published inserts on your status page? That's not going to happen again--Facebook's finally ditched Beacon, and partnered with Nielsen in a new ...READ»

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Joe Trippi's Killer App

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 14
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:43 AM

Howard Dean's campaign manager has used the Internet to turn an obscure ex-governor into a real presidential contender. It's anything but politics as usual. Will it work?READ»

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Moving Pictures

BY Anya Kamenetz
Relevancy Score: 13
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:13 AM

"If you want to send a message" in Hollywood, the saying goes, "call Western Union." Don't tell that to entrepreneur and philanthropist Jeff Skoll. With 11 Oscar nominations for cause-driven work such as Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck--and a growing roster of A-list talent at his side--he's proving that it pays to be pointed.READ»

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Achieving a State of Trans

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 11
Sat Mar 13, 2004 at 4:02 PM

Brenda Laurel is chair of the graduate media design program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Co-founder of Purple Moon, a girl-centric, girl-empowerment media company, Laurel also recently edited the MIT ...READ»