Haymarket People's Fund presents

ENGAGE! ENRAGE! ORGANIZE!

The Role of Media Justice in Social Change

Keynote speaker

Makani Themba-Nixon

author of Making Policy, Make Change: How Communities are Taking
Law Into Their Own Hands; editor of Talking the Walk: A Communications Guide for Racial Justice; and Executive Director of the Praxis Project

Also featuring social justice organizations doing media justice work in New England

May 12, 2007 | 9AM to 3 PM
11th floor (top floor) of the Healey Library, UMass Boston

suggested donation $5 for youth, $10 for adults

We've come across some new online tools that are free (or have free options) and are designed to help your group work more effectively together. We've been using some of them here at OC and know of others who are as well. Thought it would be good to share.

NING - http://www.ning.com/

Ning is an online service where you can create, customize, and share your own
Social Network for free in seconds. Sort of like MySpace, but easier. Here’s
an example community using ning: http://classroom20.ning.com/

VYEW - http://vyew.com

Vyew is a free online collaboration and web conferencing service that brings people
and content together. Vyew allows you to host live conferences and work collaboratively
on content over time, anytime.

Slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/

Slideshare lets you upload your powerpoint or other presentations online so
you can share them with others. You can even embed them easily into your own
website. Like we did here - http://organizerscollaborative.org/node/560

Dabbledb - http://www.dabbledb.com

Dabbled is an easy to use online database program. You can import data from
spreadsheets or databases — or just start from scratch. You can bring
in information from various angles etc. We're using it to keep track of workshops for our upcoming conference.

Join us for CCTV's Drupal Admin Bootcamp at Cambridge Community Television.

When: May 6, 2007, 9AM-6PM
Who: Instructed by Moshe Weitzman and Sean Effel
Where: Cambridge Community Television, Cambridge, MA
Price: $300.00

To learn more about the bootcamp, visit:

http://www.cctvcambridge.org/bootcampmay

Classes fill up quick, so call soon! If you are interested in speaking to a human to learn more about this class, please contact:

Sean Effel, Associate Director
Cambridge Community Television
617-661-6900 x111
http://www.cctvcambridge.org

Starting today, Monday, April 9th, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. We want you to cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change.

To vote, read through the Voting Guidelines, and our handy Voter Guide, which includes short summaries of the 150+ nominated projects.