Comments on: Fight the Power 2.0

By: Fight the Power 2.0: Young Turks edition « Agnostic, Maybe

Fight the Power 2.0: Young Turks edition « Agnostic, Maybe — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:13:18 +0000

[...] me, I am still fascinated with the power of the grassroots as expressed in my first library advocacy post. The highly social and collaborative efforts of user generated content has undeniable appeal for [...]

By: flash

flash — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:03:38 +0000

Cool!

By: miguel

miguel — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:08:02 +0000

Certainly, I am Even from old Europe, specifically Spain – Catalunya -Barcelona. We here (librarians and some LIS students like myself) are totally aware about public libraries as a new meeting place and social change engine. Yesterday morning I was cycling to the campus and I saw a quite big group of mothers waiting for the PL to open with their kids …great! I thought. Here the PL are completely successful and people realizes how important they are … New catalans, coming from North Africa, America, Asia come to our libraries and find a place to starting to engage and integrate in our communities … social media is the big world wide public library, in a way. We as public employees and rulers of the places need to be passionate and committed with our loved job just to keep the needed level of attention to so many changes, and be aware of threats to public right to culture. Sadly, sometimes this threats come from those who should be fully supporting us and our job : the politicians. But if we do our job and keep satisfied and happy our customers (citizens) they would fight the power together with us, as the Ohio affaire states. Good luck, we’ll keep in touch.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:29:52 +0000

::pumps fist into the air:: revolution!!!

though i’m realizing at a fairly fast pace that us 2.0+ers are in the minority when it comes to gathering steam and real community support. but if you take the obama campaign as an example, it’s us connected 2.0+ers that can hit the ground running and move out into the communities and get the rest of ‘em.

if you ever want to take over the world, lets talk.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:49:05 +0000

Ah, that would explain a few things. And it’s something to keep in mind for the Ben & Jerry’s group. I’ll have to send out a message at 4,990 or something.

Thanks!

By: Laura Solomon

Laura Solomon — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:19:11 +0000

Great post–and a quick note about why you haven’t received a message from the group owner. I’m friends with Lori Augustine, the group owner, and we investigated this very thing. We wanted to send a message out to everyone concerning the rallies, especially the one in Columbus. However, we learned, much to our chagrin, that Facebook does not *allow* mass messaging of groups over 5,000 members. By that time, the group was well into 5 digits and there wasn’t anything we could do.

If anyone knows of a workaround, we’d love to know!