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TakingITGlobal

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Movement = Network
Developed in collaboration with:
Association for Community Networking (AFCN)

An open working group to explore the concepts of Movement as Network and to propose a vision for the Community Information and Communications Technology Sector.


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Wireless Summit, Grassroots.org's SEO Toolkit, and Civic Gardens
Michael Maranda | May 15
Third time's the charm! The International Summit for Community Wireless Networks is a few days away. Who is going? SEO and the NPO:
what's a missing API?
Michael Maranda | May 14
APIs - application programming interfaces - in a web context are the lifeblood of Web 2.0. Standards make the web go round. It's baked in to the basics of the Web from the early beginning. Web 2.0 was inevitable, eventually. (What's next?) ...
A (Domain) Registrar grounded in Public Trust?
Michael Maranda | May 13
Non-profits (and many other unincorporated voluntary assemblages) are here to make change - we're part of a movement for empowerment and quality of life. We are attentive to the character of our work and the character of the field we work in, and these are reflective of our deep concern for how...
From Open Space Austin to Movement as Network
Michael Maranda | September 16
At the end of April we convened the Seventh Annual Community Networking Conference as the Open Space Austin Summit. Who are we? A bunch of co-conspirators that didn't know what to expect but who wouldn't let that stop them because we had faith in the people in our movement. We used...
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Differentiation and Facilitation of Network or Field
By: Maranda, Michael | November 10, 2005
In the sense that we are a network, or persons and organizations operating within the same field and towards similar or related positive social ends and not principally competitors in a field as market, (though competition for resources exists, and we are susceptible to a competitive mindset even when not applicable) I have looked at such papers and concepts as "Movement as Network" (which I have previously recommended.. available at http://www.movementasnetwork.org) as a conversational starting point… for an ongoing dialogue as to what it means to be a network of the type described above, and how we might better function collectively as a network.

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Movement as Network
Michael Maranda | September 15, 2005
A public forum for re-imagining the environmental movement. Let's consider this an example in building capacity for our field as a whole.

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