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PTP Blog: March 2008

Progressive Technology Project's reach within the social justice movement

Posted by Mark on Thursday, 03/27/08

We've been looking at the grassroots community led social justice organization movement lately. As part of this we decided to see who PTP has reached over the years. It's interesting primarily because it shows how widespread the movement is. Here's a map from our web site:

thumbnail map of PTP program reach

Filed under community organizing, General, Organizing, progressive technology project, ptp, social justice movement

PTP Seeking Proposals for Integrating Voter Engagement

Posted by Arif on Thursday, 03/20/08

Are you trying to get your membership database to talk to your voter canvass data? Are you interested in attending PTP's Voter Tech Training but don't have the funds? Do you need some help from political or technology consultants to move your electoral engagement planning forward?

If you answered "YES" to one or more of these questions, you might be interested in a new grant program that PTP just opened: Read more »

Filed under voter

Organizer and Author Paul Getsos to present at PTP's Database Training

Posted by Arif on Thursday, 03/13/08

Organizer and author Paul Getsos, (co-author of "Tools for Radical Democracy" and former director of Community Voices Heard)  will help us kick off the Databases, and Technology Assessment and Planning Training, April 2-4 in Minneapolis, MN.

Paul's joining us to share his experience and perspective on how and why technology, and in particular databases are a critical tool for building power.  As he and Joan Minieri wrote: Read more »

Filed under Training

COaTI - bridging the "Technology Understanding Gap"

Posted by Arif on Tuesday, 03/04/08

I picked up this article by Eugene Eric Kim via Jon Stahl's blog.

In it, Eugene writes about a training experience in which he clearly sees the impact of differences in technology understanding - what he calls the technology understanding gap: Read more »

Filed under COaTI, Organizing, Training

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