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 <title>Rootwork: Powering grassroots networks from the bottom up</title>
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 <description>Rootwork helps grassroots networks develop effective social change movements. Through member-driven websites that give supporters tools for action, and using social networks and social media to reinforce and spread your message, Rootwork will help you grow your online audience and build a movement for social change. www.rootwork.org</description>
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 <title>NetSquared Project Interviews and Session Notes</title>
 <link>http://rootwork.org/blog/2008/05/netsquared-project-interviews-session-notes</link>
 
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 <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 22:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Ivan Boothe</dc:creator>
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<description>Some really incredible presentations here at the NetSquared conference, both from featured projects and individual speakers. Seth Horwitz and I are busily collecting information for next Tuesday's...&lt;br/&gt;
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 <title>Hundreds Gather for Social Change Tech at NetSquared Year Three</title>
 <link>http://rootwork.org/blog/2008/05/hundreds-gather-social-change-tech-netsquared-year-three</link>
 
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 <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 01:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Ivan Boothe</dc:creator>
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<description>The NetSquared Year Three conference has gotten off to a great start — nonprofit staffers, activists, techies and funders gathering to talk about — and award some money to — using technology for...&lt;br/&gt;
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 <title>Just what kind of social change are you interested in?</title>
 <link>http://rootwork.org/blog/2008/05/just-what-kind-social-change-are-you-interested</link>
 
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 <category domain="http://rootwork.org/category/topic/nonprofit-technology">Nonprofit Technology</category>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 00:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Ivan Boothe</dc:creator>
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<description>This month's "Net2ThinkTank" question: "Is Online Activism Good for Social Change?"

As someone who was quoted in the "Social Citizens" report and has written in the past about technology and social...&lt;br/&gt;
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 <title>Genocide Intervention Network nominated for NetSquared mashup award</title>
 <link>http://rootwork.org/blog/2008/03/genocide-intervention-network-nominated-netsquared-mashup-award</link>
 
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 <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Ivan Boothe</dc:creator>
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<description>This week, the Genocide Intervention Network was honored to be nominated by the NetSquared community as a 2008 Featured Project for our proposal to upgrade and extend the DarfurScores.org...&lt;br/&gt;
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 <title>Organizing Rather than Mobilizing: Using Social Networks for Constituency-Building</title>
 <link>http://rootwork.org/blog/2007/10/organizing-rather-mobilizing-using-social-networks-constituency-building</link>
 
 <comments>http://rootwork.org/blog/2007/10/organizing-rather-mobilizing-using-social-networks-constituency-building#comments</comments>
 <category domain="http://rootwork.org/category/topic/social-networking-social-media">Social Networking and Social Media</category>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Ivan Boothe</dc:creator>
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<description>Britt Bravo from NetSquared asks, "What is the return on investment of the social web for nonprofits?"



For the Genocide Intervention Network, which is the organization I'm involved with that has...&lt;br/&gt;
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 <title>Notes from NTC: Participatory Media and the Future of Online Outreach</title>
 <link>http://rootwork.org/blog/2007/04/notes-ntc-participatory-media-future-online-outreach</link>
 
 <comments>http://rootwork.org/blog/2007/04/notes-ntc-participatory-media-future-online-outreach#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Ivan Boothe</dc:creator>
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<description>Although these two panels were held separately at the Nonprofit Technology Conference 2007, I thought that they related so well that I'd present them together.



Leveraging the Power of...&lt;br/&gt;
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 <title>The theory of bottom-up social networking</title>
 <link>http://rootwork.org/blog/2006/12/theory-bottom-social-networking</link>
 
 <comments>http://rootwork.org/blog/2006/12/theory-bottom-social-networking#comments</comments>
 <category domain="http://rootwork.org/category/topic/social-networking-social-media">Social Networking and Social Media</category>
 <category domain="http://rootwork.org/category/tags/activism">activism</category>
 <category domain="http://rootwork.org/category/tags/empowerment">empowerment</category>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Ivan Boothe</dc:creator>
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<description>Recently, the Genocide Intervention Network's efforts in "social networking" — things like MySpace, Facebook, Flickr and del.icio.us — have been attracting a fair amount of attention. I was invited...&lt;br/&gt;
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 <title>Can blogging stop genocide?</title>
 <link>http://rootwork.org/blog/2006/05/can-blogging-stop-genocide</link>
 
 <comments>http://rootwork.org/blog/2006/05/can-blogging-stop-genocide#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 00:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Ivan Boothe</dc:creator>
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<description>Posted to the NetSquared blog.



First, I want to thank NetSquared for offering me and the Genocide Intervention Network the opportunity to attend this critical event. I had written out my...&lt;br/&gt;
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