Join us for the San Francisco Net Tuesday on September 9:
Involver: How Nonprofits Can Create Video Campaigns for Social Networks.
Points that stand out from the morning plenary sessions. Both Rheingold and Saffo noted the importance of encouraging, supporting and guiding young people to use social media tools for concrete political action. Gillmor, Hong and Zuckerman demo-ed samples of good netizen-driven journalism and activism. Our abecedarian effort at Youth Voices has got a lot to learn and reconsider. That's obvious. But leaving aside for the moment the question of completely open vs. password-protected can learn these two things: 1. Yes, use editors! We knew that, but didn't have time to factor it in from the beginning. 2. Make the end point concrete and real. That said, I'm not sure that netStudent-izen anything can work in an urban public school. More about that later. and dreamed about some great samples of mature