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DIY Guide to Organizing a Community Consensus Conference on Municipal Broadband

Submitted by cima on Sun, 2008-06-01 19:46.
Categories: Creating Conferences & Meetings | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Local Organizing | Changing Policy | Access | Broadband Internet | Community networking | Constituency-building | Digital divide | Internet | Organizers' Tools | Public Infrastructure & Access | Public/Community Accountability | United States | Universal Access

A do-it-yourself guide for organizing a community conference to understand needs and shape policy for public networks.

http://broadbandforall.org/CCDIYGuide.pdf

Starting a Women's Media Association

Submitted by Elsa on Fri, 2008-03-28 20:50.
Categories: Creating Conferences & Meetings | Multicultural-Multiracial Alliances | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Case Studies | Local Organizing | Movement-Building, General | Leadership | Interactive feature | Diversity | Gender | Global/International | Grassroots/local organizing | National and Local Groups | Sexism | Women | Working Together & Collaboration Tools

Some basic tips and guidelines on bringing together a group to advance the role of women in  media, based in experiences from who have organized similar associations in countries around the world.

http://www.iwmf.org/training/womensmedia.php

Another World or Another Mistake? (tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia)

Submitted by Elsa on Thu, 2007-07-26 14:55.
Categories: Report-backs | Creating Conferences & Meetings | Multicultural-Multiracial Alliances | Multicultural alliances | Working in networks & models for coordinated efforts | Article | Movement-Building, General | Leadership | Access | Coalitions | Community Media | Diversity | Gatherings & Meetings | Grassroots/local organizing | Organizers' Tools | Race | Representation | United States | Working Together & Collaboration Tools | Youth

Poverty, Race, Disability, Youth and Indigenous Scholars from POOR Magazine travel to the 2007 US Social Forum to realize a new world of media production..By Any Means Necessary

http://www.poormagazine.org/index.cfm?L1=news&story=1806

Reflections on the US Social Forum: 3 Cautions for the Future of the Left (+ comments)

Submitted by Elsa on Thu, 2007-07-26 14:07.
Categories: Report-backs | Creating Conferences & Meetings | Multicultural-Multiracial Alliances | Article | Movement-Building, General | Diversity | Gatherings & Meetings | Globalization | Grassroots/local organizing | Organizers' Tools | United States | Working Together & Collaboration Tools

Sally Kohn offers a critical eye on the first U.S. Social Forum and draws spirited commentary.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/18/2607/

Working in Coalition: the Tough Questions (Advocacy Center at ISC)

Submitted by Elsa on Tue, 2007-07-24 17:14.
Categories: Activists & Academics | Creating Conferences & Meetings | Multicultural-Multiracial Alliances | Article | Book Recommendation | Coalitions | Global/International | National and Local Groups | Organizers' Tools | United States | Working Together & Collaboration Tools

How and when to say "yes" to joining a coalition. The site offers many resources for coalition building and advocacy work.

http://www.advocacy.org/coalitions/tough_questions.htm

Straight Talk about Coalitions (Advocacy Center at ISC)

Submitted by Elsa on Tue, 2007-07-24 16:52.
Categories: Activists & Academics | Creating Conferences & Meetings | Multicultural-Multiracial Alliances | Multicultural alliances | Working in networks & models for coordinated efforts | Movement-Building, General | Speech/Presentation | Coalitions | Diversity | Global/International | National and Local Groups | United States | Working Together & Collaboration Tools

Inspiring comments from Bernice Johnson Regan on the need to stretch our abilities in coalition-building.

http://www.advocacy.org/coalitions/bernice.htm

Consensus and Nonviolent Process Handbook

Submitted by cima on Fri, 2006-11-17 08:39.
Categories: Creating Conferences & Meetings | For Start-Ups & New Groups | Organizers' Tools

Booklet on processes for building consensus and running working groups.

http://www.reclaimingquarterly.org/web/resources/Handbook-RQ72.pdf