2005 Theme: Building Bridges
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Note: on your registration form you will see that there is a
checkbox to sign up for an optional "community day" session on Friday that
we are organizing in partnership with local organizations. The
session is FREE, to those who register for Saturday, or to any nonprofit
organization in greater Boston.
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**SATURDAY Location is Tang Hall, click for final program**
**FRIDAY Location is E25-111, 45 Carleton St. click for program**
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| FRI 1pm |
Community Day Panel: Making Technology
Relevant, with Ceasar McDowell, Tanya Renne |
| 2:30pm |
Two Concurrrent Case Study
sessions, one with four local nonprofits, one with developers interested
in making open source software more usable |
| 4:00pm |
Community Learning Sessions --
led by local nonprofits/ by LGBT groups/ by nonprofit web developers interested in apply RSS & information
sharing technologies
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| FRI 6pm |
Meet for
dinner in lobby of E25 |
SAT |
(see workshops,
at Right) |
| 8:00-9:00am |
Breakfast
and Registration |
| 9:00-10:15
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Opening
and Keynote Remarks, by Micah Sifry |
| 10:15-10:30
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Break |
| 10:30-12:00 |
Workshops:
Session I |
| 12:00-1:30pm |
Lunch |
| 1:30-3:00 |
Workshops:
Session II |
| 3:00-3:30
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Break |
| 3:30-5:00
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Workshops:
Session III |
| 5:00-5:30 |
Refreshments, Wrapup |
| 5:30-6:30 |
Followup planning
,OC Business |
| 6:45pm-
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Post-Conference Dinner |
Micah L. Sifry
Our Keynote Speaker, Micah L. Sifry, is the co-founder and Executive Editor of
the Personal Democracy Forum.
Since 1997, he has been a senior analyst with Public Campaign, a
non-profit organization that works on comprehensive campaign finance reform. Micah is also
a freelance writer whose work frequently appears in The Nation,
The American Prospect, Tikkun, TomPaine.com and Salon.com.
Micah has appeared on CBS "This Morning,"
MSBNC, C-SPAN, MTV News, National Public Radio, Air America, and
is frequently consulted by the media as a leading source on third-party
politics.
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The
Registration Link is closed but you still make a donation to help
OC fund next year's conference by going here:
Make a Donation (click here)
or
Return the registration form below ASAP with payment via:
- Mail: Box 400897, Cambridge, MA 02140
- Fax:
617-695-1295
- Phone: 617-426-1228 x108
- Email: conf2005@oc-tech.org
(do not send
credit card info by email)
Space
limited to 250 participants.
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"“The conference was
very useful to our community organization, and has since enabled us to
address some of the core technology issues that we faced.”
- Graham Saathoff, member & volunteer, Metro Justice, Rochester
"“The conference was great. I was able to network with a
lot of people and learn about exciting trends.”
- Jo Lee, Citizenspeak
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There will be
three (1 hr 30 min) workshop sessions. Each session will have
six concurrent presentations. Workshops are categorized as
"Intro Tech", "Advanced Tech", or "Organizational Strategy".
Workshop proposals that were
accepted fit into one of these themes: a) Making technology relevant to communities
b) Online politics post-2004 c) Uniting movements for social justice -
Building coalitions, progressive infrastructure
Here are the 13 workshops confirmed at this time:
- Distributed Activism: Using the Internet to Foster Successful
Decentralized Campaigns (Justin Ruben, MoveOnPac.org,
Andrew Stocking, care2.com, and Lynn Benander, OnLine Communities Project at Coopertive Life)
- Adopting Open Source Software in a Nonprofit Environment
(Al Essa, Sloan School of Management, Carolyn Meeks, Aristoi)
- Content Management Systems are like Chocolate Bars: Making Them Dessert Not Disaster
(Alison Stanton, Western College Program, Miami University)
- Outcomes Management and Case Management for Human Service Organizations- Build, Buy, or Lease?
(Scott Smith, Community TechKnowledge and Kevin Harris, Social Solutions)
- Moving your website to the next level with Plone - an open source CMS
(Nate Aune, Jazkarta Consulting - jazkarta.com)
- Unlocking the Doors to Political Power: Low Cost Tools for Activist Outreach & Civic Engagement
(Gregory Heller, Raj Singh, and Bob Lelievre)
- Using a blog to get your group's message out
(Aldon Hynes, blogger involved in the Dean for President effort)
- Online Tools to Engage your Members and Donors: an Introduction
(Deborah Elizabeth Finn, CyberYenta)
- Technology for Labor Unions and Labor Organizers
(Tanya Renne, Orchid Suites, Claire McDonough, SEIU Headquarters,
and Wayne Langley, SEIU Local 615)
- From zero to sixty: how your group can adopt online advocacy techniques
(Josh Friedes, Freedom to Marry Coalition of MA)
- Grassroots Technology and the Emerging Progressive Infrastructure
(panel with Jo Lee, Zack Rosen, others TBA)
- How do "Alinsky-era" theories apply to online organizing
(panel convened by Brian Reich, Mindshare Internet Consulting)
- Ask The Experts: small group assistance for your organization
(with Marty Kearns, Green Media Toolshed, Robert DeBenedictis, Sue
Dorfman, and three others)
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Onsite checkin begins at 8:00 am on Saturday 4/16
at the Tang Center, 70 Memorial Drive (near Kendall Square
MBTA).
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A
Campus Map is available at: whereis.mit.edu
To
The Tang Center: There will be signs posted and volunteers will
be on hand to help you find your way.
From the Kendall
Square MBTA: walk straight down Carleton Street until it
dead-ends. Take a left and then walk to the next intersection,
Wadsworth Street. Hang a right and the building on the right is the
Tang Center. (see map)
From
the East Lot: walk toward the river. When you get to the
river, turn right and you should see Wadsworth Street. The Tang
Center is at the corner of Wadsworth and Memorial Drive (the river
road).
Via
Public Transportation: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?section=directions
Commuter Trains: www.mbta.com
Automobile:
From the West, take the Mass Pike (I-90) to the
Cambridge Exit, go toward Cambridge and take a right onto Memorial
Drive right after crossing the river. After a mile you will cross
under Mass Ave. (stay on your left). Then take the first left, which
is Wadsworth St.
From the South, take I-93 North and
go most of the way through the tunnel (to exit 26, Storrow Drive
West).
From the North, take I-93 to exit 26 (exit 26,
Leverett Connector / Storrow Drive).
If coming on Route 1
S., there is a new exit right off of the Tobin Bridge that also
leads to "Storrow Drive West."
From each of the last 3
options, you want to go 1.5 miles on Storrow Drive West and take the
left exit, "Route 2A - Back Bay" (after the Copley exit). At the end
of the ramp take a right to go over the bridge to Cambridge, and
when you reach the end, take a right on Mem. Drive, left on
Wadsworth.
Train/Bus:
train and
bus service arrives at South
Station, which is 4 subway stops from Kendall/MIT (go
"inbound" toward Alwife). There are also Chinatown Busses from
NY City which arrive near Chinatown or South Station MBTA, depending
on the service you choose, and there is a bus from TF
Green Airport in Providence 7 times each day, including at 5PM,
6PM, and 8PM.
Plane:
MIT is 2.5 miles from Logan International Airport; taxi
and subway service is available.
Print Map from Logan Ainternational Airport
(Mapquest)
Lodging within walking distance:
Lodging
at union hotels:
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