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Comment on Volunteers or staff: Who is holding up your virtual organization? by Community Supports | Connect & Enable

Community Supports | Connect & Enable — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:10:44 +0000

[...] are related to providing communities with a place to gather – be it online or in real life. This post , by Bruce Caron, on the difference between what volunteers do for a community and what paid staff [...]

Comment on Volunteers or staff: Who is holding up your virtual organization? by Erin Robinson

Erin Robinson — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:41:14 +0000

Thanks for articulating this. It is incredibly helpful to think of how to best use volunteers and staff. The one thing I would add to this that I’m seeing is the volunteers needing stable infrastructure to work and staff needs to put these supports in place.

Comment on Robert Darnton: “A digital library better than Google’s” (NYT) by Bruce Caron

Bruce Caron — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:38:46 +0000

The digital public library movement (Sloan/Harvard) is one potential next step.

Comment on Democracy happens in places and with crowds by Bruce Caron

Bruce Caron — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:04:05 +0000

The BBC has a nice interactive map of the demonstration at Tahrir Square .

Comment on Broadband as a public right of way by Broadband as a public right of way (via Virtual Democracy) « Pilant's Business Ethics Blog

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:13:37 +0000

[...] This essay was written in support of the Super Santa Barbara 2011 art exhibit on net neutrality In the forty-one years since UC Santa Barbara became the third node on ARPANET (the government funded precursor to the Internet), generations of Santa Barbarans have been born into lifescapes increasingly dominated by “online time.” The growth of the Int … Read More [...]