Third Session
The Labor Movement & New Media
Hayden Hall 321 (3rd Floor)
In this presentation, Steve will consider the strategic use of websites and new media by labor unions. He will draw on his experience with building more than 60 websites for labor organizations.
Managing Your Organization by Integrating Your Website with a Constituent Relationship Management System (CRM)
Egan Main Auditorium
Learn how to leverage popular open source content management systems (CMS) such as Joomla and Plone to integrate your website more tightly with your member database. We will discuss:
Open Forum on a Potential Digital Rights Campaign (Closing Writers Union Presentation)
Egan 440 (4th Floor)
Speak out and brainstorm on how we make common cause to enhance our collective ability to improve our working conditions online and beyond. About the facilitator: Larry Goldbetter, President of the National Writers Union.
Data Safety: Learning about the New Mass. Law
Curry Student Center 342 (3rd Floor)
This is a hands-on workshop, where we help you identify the steps your organization needs to take to comply with this pioneering new data safety law. We will help you write the written security plan the law requires. To read more about the law, go to www.MassDataSafety.com.
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.
Countering Military Recruitment Using Open Source Mapping Tools
Curry Student Center 340 (3rd Floor)
Peacework co-editor Sam Diener will discuss how we obtained the data from the military. Katherine Fisher will discuss selecting open source mapping tools and the challenges and joys therein. We will demonstrate some of the maps we've created and can create. We'll discuss ways we could go from here to present and help visitors access these data and these maps on the web.
Celebrate 10 years of Grassroots Technology with the 
