Envisioning a Just Media Future
Egan 440 (4th Floor)
The Boston Action Tank is a collaborative of local media and communication workers who are committed to social change and progressive communications. Over the last 18 months the group has been developing and piloting tools to jumpstart conversations and develop strategies that ensure community needs are heard a rapidly changing media world. This session is an introduction to our processes of collective visioning and introduce participants to a number of other tools we have to over to work with groups.
The Revolution Will Be Personalized
Hayden Hall 321 (3rd Floor)
This workshop will provide high level introductions to computer systems that use large amounts of data from individuals to make predictions about everything from individual preferences to national elections. Next, will be a brief overview topics from developmental psychology relating to the effects of information consumption over time. The presentation will conclude with a model for cooperative businesses which uses these emerging technologies to make employment more flexible.
Constituent Relationship Management for Civic Sector (CiviCRM) - Intermediate, Expert
Curry Student Center 340 (3rd Floor)
Web-based, Free and Open Source Software alternative for Social Justice organizations with a huge development community and campaign-focused design. This training will introduce grassroots activists to this growing web-based platform for managing their relationships with donors, members, volunteers, and their community at large while preserving fundamental organizing strategies.
US Social Forum 2010
Egan 340 (3rd Floor)
The workshop goal is to orient participants to the US Social Forum process, with a focus on the Information, Communications, and Technology working group.
Creators on Creative Rights - Who Owns Our Work?
Curry Student Center 342 (3rd Floor)
This roundtable will feature creators from various industries sharing their experiences with keeping control of rights to their work in a time when many employers expect people to sell all rights to their works in all media for low one-time payments. About the panel: Led by Roberto Mighty (new media producer and director of prime time programs and documentaries) & David Goodman (Open Media Boston and I.B.I.S. Radio)
Celebrate 10 years of Grassroots Technology with the 
