Last week I attended Aspiration's "Web Sites for Advocacy and Community Organizing: Basics, Essentials and Best Practices" conference in LA. The conference was set up as a dialogue around two words too often thrown around by those in community technology: eOrganizing and eAdvocacy. The presenters, Allen Gunn of Aspiration and David Taylor of Radical Designs, defined them this way: eOrganizing: new tools for base building, to grow relationships and to achieve trust. eAdvocacy: new tools for extending the reach of project messages, to engage media, to influence decision makers and campaign targets and to connect with new allies and supporters.

Comment from Tim Wescott on October 3, 2006 - 6:28pm

I had a unique view of the presentation, considering I'm working at Aspiration. :-) Gunner and David did a really great job with it.