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		<title>Progressive Technology Project&#8217;s reach within the social justice movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;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&#8217;s interesting primarily because it shows how widespread the movement is. Here&#8217;s a map from our web site: 

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		<link>http://www.progressivetech.org/blog/2008/03/27/progressive-technology-projects-reach-within-the-social-justice-movement/</link>
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		<title>April 2nd: Meet the Author of &#8220;Tools for Radical Democracy&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark this event on your calendar! Paul Getsos, co-author of Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in your Community, will do a book reading on Wednesday April 2nd 2008 – 7:00pm, Magers &#38; Quinn Bookstore (3038 Hennepin Avenue S., Minneapolis). 
Tools for Radical Democracy is an essential resource for grassroots organizers and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progressivetech.org/blog/2008/03/27/april-2nd-meet-the-author-of-tools-for-radical-democracy/</link>
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		<title>PTP Seeking Proposals for Integrating Voter Engagement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you trying to get your membership database to talk to your voter canvass data?  Are you interested in attending PTP&#8217;s Voter Tech Training but don&#8217;t have the funds?  Do you need some help from political or technology consultants to move your electoral engagement planning forward?
If you answered &#8220;YES&#8221; to one or more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progressivetech.org/blog/2008/03/20/ptp-seeking-proposals-for-voter-work/</link>
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		<title>Organizer and Author Paul Getsos to present at PTP&#8217;s Database Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Organizer and author Paul Getsos, (co-author of &#8220;Tools for Radical Democracy&#8221; 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&#8217;s joining us to share his experience and perspective on how and why technology, and in particular databases are a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progressivetech.org/blog/2008/03/13/organizer-and-author-paul-getsos-to-present-at-ptps-database-training/</link>
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		<title>COaTI - bridging the &#8220;Technology Understanding Gap&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I picked up this article by Eugene Eric Kim via Jon Stahl&#8217;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:
The following day, I co-led a session on this topic with AngusParker. Two of the participants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progressivetech.org/blog/2008/03/04/coati-bridging-the-technology-understanding-gap/</link>
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		<title>One more week to register for Database &#038; Technology Assessment and Planning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We realize that many organizers are not too excited about going to technology training. Probably because you think it’s going to be dull and impossible to understand.  Or maybe that the thought of spending days with geeks is more than you can bear.
That’s not what happens at a PTP training. We have fun. You’ll have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progressivetech.org/blog/2008/02/21/one-more-week-to-register-for-database-technology-assessment-and-planning/</link>
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		<title>Got Database Problems?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only 14 more days to sign-up for PTP’s Training on Databases and Technology Assessment and Planning taking place April 2-4, 2008 in Minneapolis, MN
If your organization is looking to improve its database, this is the program to dig in and find out what PTP has learned from the best practices in the field. 
Our Database, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progressivetech.org/blog/2008/02/15/got-database-problems/</link>
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		<title>Is a 16% response rate good or bad?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Here’s the story.  A colleague posted a note on Twitter about an organization that got a really low response rate when they sent out a subscribe request to people who had done a paper sign-up for their announcement email list.  Their webhost requires that list recipients opt-in via email, and so the organization sent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progressivetech.org/blog/2008/01/18/is-a-16-response-rate-good-or-bad/</link>
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		<title>The value of a database</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a conversation yesterday with someone who&#8217;s trying to wrap his head around how to talk with organizers in his organization about what a database does and what value it provides - why they should use it, and how to think about using it.
As I talked with him about his database questions, I realized [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progressivetech.org/blog/2008/01/07/the-value-of-a-database/</link>
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		<title>Political Inclination of MySpace users:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seems like the MySpace folks are working to build a case against the idea that MySpace users are politically disengaged.  A recent survey
. . .revealed a few key facts: that MySpace&#8217;s young user base is more politically engaged and active than the U.S. population at large, that they tend to be politically independent, and that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progressivetech.org/blog/2007/12/13/political-inclination-of-myspace-users/</link>
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