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New Home for A. Fine Blog 9 Feb 2011 | 05:39 am
Exciting news this morning (at least to me!) my new website at www.allisonfine.com is up and running! A. Fine Blog is now housed there. Please reset your RSS feed. Thanks and I look forward to seeing ...
Gladwell Gets It Wrong – Again 4 Feb 2011 | 04:20 am
Malcolm Gladwell has done it again. Last summer he wrote, I thought rather flippantly, about the ineffectiveness of social media in generating and sustaining social protests. And now he has followed w...
Lessons and Thoughts on the Egyptian Protest 1 Feb 2011 | 10:36 am
I’ve been watching and reading about the protests in Egypt with awe at the courage of the participants and fear for the reprisals they may face. Perhaps it’s too early or easy to generalize, but that’...
Fighting the Public School Fortress 27 Jan 2011 | 05:55 am
I have worked with a number of nonprofits and foundations over the past few years, terrific organizations like Common Cause and the Avi Chai Foundation, traditional organizations working sincerely to ...
Activists and Orgs Meeting Online 19 Jan 2011 | 11:58 am
Pew’s Center on the Internet and American Life has just released a study that creates a strong connection between Internet users and social causes. According to the study: “It becomes clear as people ...
Social Good Podcast: The Delicious Debacle 12 Jan 2011 | 03:53 am
In mid December an ex-employee of Yahoo!, the owner of Delicious, released a slide from an internal presentation that indicated that Yahoo might close Delicious. Here is a copy of that slide showing w...
Free Agent Communities 6 Jan 2011 | 05:48 am
Debra Askanase, aka @askdebra, has written a terrific post over at the Care2 blog,Why “Free Agent” Social Communities Rock. Debra builds on the concept of free agents that Beth and I describe in The N...
Crowds Vs. Mobs 23 Dec 2010 | 08:25 am
Those of us happily swimming in the social media waters often extol the virtues of crowds of people who can act collectively to generate new knowledge or new products. Beth just wrote a great post for...
Videos of the Year 21 Dec 2010 | 09:25 am
Welcome to my third annual Videos of the Year post! This year I want to concentrate on the videos that are clearly self-made, not videos that are the equivalent of the old, professional public servic...
The Online/On Land Disconnect 17 Dec 2010 | 11:19 am
Nancy Scola wrote a terrific post about a new report from the Berkman Center called Political Change in the Digital Age: The Fragility and Promise of Online Organizing. The paper is a great primer on ...
