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Digital Advocacy Talk at Mesh

By Michael Geist

While there are great liveblogs and media coverage of my talk on digital advocacy at the Mesh Conference, I've posted a synced version of the presentation and an MP3 recording of the talk.  The talk owes a lot to Ethan Zuckerman's exceptional presentation on the same subject at the ETech conference earlier this year.  I begin with three stories - the experience of Fair Copyright for Canada, Stephen Taylor's challenge of a CBC report, and the Apple 1984 advertisement as a political mashup.  I then consider ten things that make digital advocacy effective:

• organizing power
• online and offline
• mainstream media
• educate
• action
• speed
• digital tools
• localized
• government 2.0
• general purpose sites

Full post as published by Michael Geist on May 23, 2008 (boomark / email).