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The deadline for the One World New Media for Social Change Competition submission has been extended to the 31st of December 2010. To read more about the competition go to the Fundacja TechSoup website or check out the previous blog post concerning the topic.

We have already received some excellent submissions, but hope for even more organizations and individuals to participate, showing what they are doing and explain how their work is helping to make the world a better place.

The deadline for the New Media for Social Change competition almost here: December 20, 2010. Interested groups and individuals should read the Rules and Regulations and fill out the online submission form as soon as possible. If you have any questions or concerns that might keep you from submitting something, please feel free to contact One World immediately by writing Scott Hudson scott.hudson@oneworld.cz.

A little over a month back, we ran an interview with Eric Volz as a part of our coverage of the Berkeley Human Rights Center's conference, The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media. Volz was a panelist at the conference, where he discussed his experience as a political prisoner in Nicaragua, the online campaign which helped to keep his case alive, and the pros and cons of staging similar campaigns.

...because I'm seeing him speak on Friday in Warsaw. Full details here, questions welcome!

I just discovered the coolest widget on the New York Times website, and it's making me think about new ways to represent community opinion.

Hey All,

I wanted to beef up the book review with a little historical perspective on the authors.  This way, you not only learn about the one fragment of their careers, but also why you can trust their information and opinions when it comes to the topic of online media, communications, et cetera.  I figured this component to the review would be valuable - I know I find it refreshing when I open the dust cover and find out the author has been working diligently in the field relevant to the book, rather than hunting squirrel or formulating a new pancake recipe for the past 15 years...

This is a great book for non-profit leadership to sink their teeth into.  It's both hi-level and granuar in scope, providing you with content to start a creative fire within your organization to anaylze/implement/adapt a new tool for collaborative endeavors as well as give you prolific, quality examples of how other organizations have increased mutliple capacities by leveraging wiki into their bucket o' resources.

I like examples. Whether they’re of successes or failures, a keen administration can learn multitudes from examples. A recent example of a modern non-profit engaging a community by leveraging pre-existing communities is www.dosomething.org’s presence on myspace.com. This clever maneuver may not be as unique as a Dali painting, but the layers of successes wrapped into this effort is impressive and worth study.

I’m going to list these in order of what I see as their most potent tactics.