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		<title>New Home for A. Fine Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exciting news this morning (at least to me!) my new website at www.allisonfine.com is up and running! A. Fine Blog is now housed there. Please reset your RSS feed. Thanks and I look forward to seeing you there!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=216337&amp;post=1497&amp;subd=afine2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gladwell Gets It Wrong &#8211; Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm Gladwell has done it again. Last summer he wrote, I thought rather flippantly, about the ineffectiveness of social media in generating and sustaining social protests. And now he has followed with a post on the New Yorker blog. (An irony-free zone for Gladwell who apparently doesn&#8217;t believe that this blog is a social media [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=216337&amp;post=1492&amp;subd=afine2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons and Thoughts on the Egyptian Protest</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching and reading about the protests in Egypt with awe at the courage of the participants and fear for the reprisals they may face. Perhaps it&#8217;s too early or easy to generalize, but that&#8217;s never stopped me before! Here are a few thoughts about the Egyptian protests, and what makes it similar and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=216337&amp;post=1476&amp;subd=afine2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting the Public School Fortress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amy Sample Ward]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have worked with a number of nonprofits and foundations over the past few years, terrific organizations like Common Cause and the Avi Chai Foundation, traditional organizations working sincerely to turn themselves into Networked Nonprofits. To break out from behind their high walls and wide moats and focus on building meaningful relationships with wide networks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=216337&amp;post=1469&amp;subd=afine2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Activists and Orgs Meeting Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pew&#8217;s Center on the Internet and American Life has just released a study that creates a strong connection between Internet users and social causes. According to the study: &#8220;It becomes clear as people are asked about their activities that their use of the internet is having a wide-ranging impact on their engagement with civic, social, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=216337&amp;post=1462&amp;subd=afine2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Good Podcast: The Delicious Debacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In mid December an ex-employee of Yahoo!, the owner of Delicious, released a slide from an internal presentation that indicated that Yahoo might close Delicious. Here is a copy of that slide showing which sites Yahoo! might shut down. He tweeted the news that Delicious was shutting down and a picture of this slide, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=216337&amp;post=1457&amp;subd=afine2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Agent Communities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debra Askanase, aka @askdebra, has written a terrific post over at the Care2 blog,Why &#8220;Free Agent&#8221; Social Communities Rock. Debra builds on the concept of free agents that Beth and I describe in The Networked Nonprofit. We defined free agents as individuals, fluent with social media, raising awareness, funds and organizing for causes. It&#8217;s awfully [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=216337&amp;post=1454&amp;subd=afine2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crowds Vs. Mobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of us happily swimming in the social media waters often extol the virtues of crowds of people who can act collectively to generate new knowledge or new products. Beth just wrote a great post for Huffington Post providing a summary from our book on the various ways that crowds can work together to support [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=216337&amp;post=1445&amp;subd=afine2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Videos of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to my third annual Videos of the Year post!  This year I want to concentrate on the videos that are clearly self-made, not videos that are the equivalent of the old, professional public service announcements. Not that there is anything wrong with professional videos, it&#8217;s just a different animal from self-made content that individuals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=216337&amp;post=1435&amp;subd=afine2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Online/On Land Disconnect</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Fine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nancy Scola wrote a terrific post about a new report from the Berkman Center called Political Change in the Digital Age: The Fragility and Promise of Online Organizing. The paper is a great primer on political activism in repressive regimes, how change happens and what makes it so hard and risky. Nancy nails the key, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afine2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=216337&amp;post=1429&amp;subd=afine2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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