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This blog is for anyone who’s energetic and passionate about how the next generation is creating change in new and fresh ways; anyone who brims with new approaches and ideas for problem-solving; anyone who’s disposed toward sharing the responsibilities and rewards of affecting change in the world; and anyone who’s equipped with the digital tools and people power to make it happen. Help us explore questions about how the next generation can impact engagement and activism by reading and commenting on posts.

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Peer-Associative Branding or, "What if We Said Your Friends Are All Doing It" "My Head is spinning with so much that is new or needs to be taken apart and put back
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Service Nation: Live Inaugural Feeds From DC
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As Ideas for Change Competition Ends, What Can We Learn? With nearly 8,000 ideas and more than 600,000 votes, the Ideas for Change In America competition of Change.org made evident a widespread interest in the power of technology to enable citizen-centered policy change. We’ve been watching with great interest here on Social Citizens as thousands of ideas have funneled into Change.org since early November. But with yesterday’s announcement of the top ten ideas and a lively panel discussion at the National Press Club, I’ve been focused on what it means as this new era of participatory democracy takes hold - perhaps even more so than on the ideas themselves. It’s one thing to rally your network to elect an individual candidate or to vote for a specific idea – but how do you take that network and sustain it, and more importantly how do you use technology to bring new and diverse voices into the dialogue?
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Is Defriending THE Trend of 2009?
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