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NCOC brings you face-to-face with Facebook panel (and more!)

NCOC brings you face-to-face with Facebook panel (and more!) If a picture is worth 1000 words, then a YouTube video is worth conference fees and several hours of your life -- particularly when it's bringing you a fascinating panel from NCOC about Facebook's role in and impact on civic engagement. That's right ... today's post is the as-promised third installment of our NCOC coverage, from our introduction, to Kristen's event notes, to the final video of Bill Galston, Sean Parker, and Joe Trippi (see below). So far, the comments and reactions here have been really thoughtful, even extending into posts/threads over at Beth's Blog and PhilanTopic. So give this choice piece of cinema a look-see, and then check out the rest of Kristen's coverage after the fold!

Newsweek Brings About Change(.org)

Newsweek Brings About Change(.org) Time for some morning math! (New media + adaptation) * (new perspectives + information) = a whole lot more people reached.

Making It Your Own in a Hip Hop World

Making It Your Own in a Hip Hop World Today's guest blogger, Asad Jafri is the coordinator of Leaders of the New School, a project located in the south side of Chicago that brings together local youth with artists and mentors to address and help resolve community issues through hip hop and urban arts. Leaders of the New School was one of the Final Four grantees in the Case Foundation’s Make It Your Own Awards, and Asad met earlier this week with representatives of the other 20 program finalists. I'm personally not a fan of generic labels on an entire generation, but if I had to pick a broad term for the generation I fall under, it would be the Hip Hop Generation. I'm part of a generation that is ready to make change happen collectively with the limited resources around us. That also means I was organizing in my community before I knew what community organizing was.

S.O.S. = students on service (part 3)

S.O.S. = students on service (part 2)

S.O.S. = students on service (part 1)

Voter Registration Deadlines Loom