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Marching in a 4th of July Parade in Sierra Madre

I woke up very early on the 4th and got out some sign making equipment (butcher paper, wide brush, blue ink), and made two large signs -- one that said Obama and another that said Warner -- for Russ Warner, the Democratic challenger for the CA-26 Congressional seat.

Searched around the garage to see if schtuff that's kept "around here somewhere, hope it comes in handy someday" would work as a rigid backing/handle for the sign. Voila! Leftover wooden battens from a venetian blind (buy full lengt… Continue

Posted on July 6, 2008 at 3:57pm — 3 Comments

Obama HQ Blogger: The Education of an Organizer

Good reference worth reading. [Hat tip to Oona in The Field comments]

The importance of narrative and personal connections is something that Barack learned early on in his career as as community organizer. A recent Los Angeles Times article takes a look at the origins of some of these concepts, and the c

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Posted on June 23, 2008 at 10:46am — 5 Comments

Rural Votes' Tracy Russo gets in a good McCain dig in Politico post "The Google"

Ben Smith: The Google covers a Personal Democracy Forum panel session where John McCain's internet savviness is taking a hit. McCain campaign aide Mark Soohoo is on the hot seat, and Russo gets in a good one:

Soohoo is getting beat up a bit before what isn't exactly a McCain audience at the tech conference. Pressed again on McCain's tech savvy, he defends his candidate.

"You don’t actually have to use a compu

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Posted on June 23, 2008 at 10:16am —

Michelle Obama: Meeting Barack, Barack as community organizer

[and an experiment in embedding YouTube movies in Ning. Easy to do. Just copy the "embed" code that appears at the end of a YouTube movie and paste it in the Entry Text Box]

Found this in a Daily Kos diary about Michelle Obama

Community organizing, as she describes it, is looking at the world as it is and the world as it should be, and bringing those two things closer together.… Continue

Posted on June 18, 2008 at 7:55am — 1 Comment

The Campaign and the Internets. Changing the Game. Destabilizing old Hierarchies

I read a cluster of posts today that relate to and draw on that video of Obama addressing his Chicago organization that Al Giordano embedded in his Organizer in Chief post. These posts address Obama's use of the web and social software to build a movement and work his campaign. (Conversely, McCain's lack of computer savvy is mentioned by Tracy at The Back Forty.)

I wish to draw your a… Continue

Posted on June 9, 2008 at 10:01pm — 3 Comments

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At 6:03pm on December 7, 2008, Spirit of Will Rogers said…: Susan,
I think I would like to join the Group Creators Group. I started the small Oklahoma group. Got the invite but technically not too sharp.
Cynthia
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At 7:15pm on December 3, 2008, Janey Laird said…: Interesting about the FriendFeed. The technicals you explained are I'm afraid to say over my head. But, let me know how it is working - it sounds promising!

At 12:25pm on December 3, 2008, Janey Laird said…: Thanks! I thought I would just try it and see. As you saw in the email, I am wondering what things work and what doesn't!

At 8:51am on October 26, 2008, Lisa, New York said…: Hi Susan,

Suzy Shure, Ann Cantelow and I have started a discussion about Al's Dream Guitar. I am not very skilled at navigating around this Fieldhands site. Am wondering what best mechanism is for making announcement* to Fieldhands. You can have a look at our discussion on main Fieldhands page. (*Would like to float the idea that on election night or day after, it might be a good time to show him our appreciation by chipping in toward his dream guitar.) We'd ultimately have to work with Al to be sure it's acceptabel to use Fund for Authentic Journalism tool to collect donations, etc...)

Lisa Ballard

At 4:30pm on July 11, 2008, story said…: thanks for the welcome... looking forward to getting involved here in the southland.

At 9:15am on July 11, 2008, Christi Demuth said…: Hi Susan,
Can you email all the fieldhands and ask them if they have signed the petition for Al yet? That way we would know that we have all of them covered. Thanks so much. We are 63 signatures away from 1500.

At 9:17am on July 7, 2008, Christie (Christine Covelli) said…: Hey Susan, I know you've got a lot to do (and I wish I could help instead of asking a question!) Is there a way to save a record of all our activity on our page, but to update to the latest activity? Mine shows June 22 as my latest post. Thanks!

At 3:52pm on July 3, 2008, Roberta Anderson said…: Thank you for the welcome.
Do you know if there is any group in the Killeen, Georgetown area? And where can I find the itinery for the Netroots convention in Austin this month? Do you know who the speakers are going to be? And how can I Ad a comment to andyof Al's articles?

At 8:15am on June 28, 2008, sher said…: Susan

I'm not certain if you received my email but I will not be at the Obama event today; hopefully we can connect at another time. I am unavailable this weekend due to some family matters. take care
sher

At 8:22am on June 25, 2008, Christie (Christine Covelli) said…: Hi Susan,

Thank goodness for this lull in the election cycle, or I might never catch up with my work. I'll check in with you again in a few weeks if I manage to get ahead of the game, and see what I can do to help.