Smallyelloworangewill

Will

Atlanta, Georgia
33.748314, -84.391106
www.publicplease.org

About: I am mainly interested in how citizens can use social media to communicate and collaborate with decision makers and opinion leaders in governmental organizations.

I am writing my master's thesis on how to redesign online petitions.

Title Graduate Research Assistant
Interests Citizen-Government Interface, Cyberactivism, Information Policy
What online communities are you active in? YouTube
What topics are on your radar for 2008? Representational Journalism, Political Projects, Digital Advocacy

Blog Posts

blog posts

A Parrot In The Situation Room And A Plea For Open Debates

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Today, CNN’s Situation Room totally missed the point of Ralph Nader’s Parrot video.  Nader created the video to draw attention to ...

Is C-Span’s Qik Experiment At The 2008 Democratic Convention A Social Media Gimmick?

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At the 2008 Democratic Convention, C-Span has started a Qik group to directly broadcast parts of the convention in the field via video on the Qik w...

Howard Dean Dodges Accusation That Some Democratic Presidents Were War Criminals

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Howard Dean, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, dodged a tough accusation today from a C-Span caller that some Democratic president...

C-SPAN Video Library Versus YouTube, Vimeo, And Internet Archive

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I am sad to report that the C-SPAN Video Library, a supposedly non-profit venture, is still less public than many for-profit video sharing websites...

Blog Against Poverty

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On October 15th, thousands of bloggers from around the world will be writing against poverty. At Public Please, we too, will be writing against po...

Did McCain Subvert Pastor Rick’s Cone Of Silence?

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It appears that John McCain eavesdropped on Pastor Rick’s questions at a recent question and answer session between Pastor Rick and the presi...


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Comments

David Cohen:

Will,

I'm on the advisory board for a non-profit, prowomen.org, so I'm always interested in finding new approaches to help get the word out. I also know a couple of entrepreneurs who have developed tools with non-profits in mind. Let's chat.

-David

Timothy Moenk:

I'm totally interested in figuring out how to combine the ideas of participatory democracy with everything we're learning about 21st organizational structures through social media!

I also run the local NetSquared group. Check it out!: http://netsquared.meetup.com/8

Leonard Witt:

Hi Will:

Check bios around here at Crowdvine. Also check out the participants list at www.SoCon08.com.

It is a bit behind, the list has 100, we are now at 170, so we will update it soon again this week. http://socon08.com/particip...

Any nonprofit folks, here at Crowdvine give Will a heads up. He brings the power of a Ga Tech computer/social media grad student with ideas to the table.

Yassine Sbiti:

Consolidation, Personalization, and Ease of Access to Social Media across multiple networks

Gail Tverberg:

I would be happy to meet you. I am not planning on coming to the dinner (at least at this point), but will be at the campus early for the breakfast (assuming socon08 has one again this year).