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	<description>Change, Not Charity</description>
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		<title>On the Road Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Crawford</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So tomorrow I leave for an extended trip to Kiev, Ukraine and Prishtina, Kosovo.  Both places I have been to before but I still get a little antsy just before a long trip.  The kids are prepared, excited about Mommy taking an airplane ride, and have asked me to bring them back a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War As Advocacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 20:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew DeGroot</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If it&#8217;s Teresa&#8217;s tendency to geek out over cool new tools, it&#8217;s probably mine to get lost down the rabbit hole of overthinking theories and abstract ideas. Today&#8217;s post is a prime example, but a blog is a blog, and since this is what I&#8217;ve been thinking about with respect to advocacy this past week, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY Communications Toolkit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 21:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Crawford</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I admit it, I am a geek, if you could not already tell from the last few posts to the blog.  Matthew often has to reign me in when I geek out too much.  But today a new resource came across my desk that not only spoke to the geek in me but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Steps to a Deeper Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 18:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Crawford</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[citizenship]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[deliberation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[participation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I wish I had those 12 steps laid out so I could plot out my moves based on those steps.  While unfortunately I may not have a clear road map just yet, thanks to  Lara Birnback  at  Public Agenda  , I do have some great new resources.  Lara [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web 2.0 - the why&#8217;s and wherefore&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.advocacy.org/blog/archives/27</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 19:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Crawford</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our loyal and lonely readers - Gretchen - has asked for a post that unpacks the term Web 2.0 to give us a bit of context since both Matthew and I have been posting about this idea a bit lately.  Not to rehash what has already been done on numerous other blogs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ICT for Democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.advocacy.org/blog/archives/26</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 13:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Crawford</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Teresa Crawford]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[eldis community blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the new  Pipes  set up by  Marnie Webb  at  Compumentor  which help folks find content related to technology and civil society I was able to find this blog on  ICT for Democracy  set up by the folks at  ELDIS .  If you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does your network look like?</title>
		<link>http://www.advocacy.org/blog/archives/25</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 13:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Crawford</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is alot of buzz (some deserved and some not) about the potential of web 2.0 to revolutionize how we reach out to supporters and mobilize them around certain issues.  As great as all that is it helps to understand how social networks - live, breath, eat, grow - and you cannot always see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ukraine 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.advocacy.org/blog/archives/24</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 17:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew DeGroot</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of us know, one of the challenges advocates often face abroad (if not in the U.S. as well!) is a lack of receptiveness among government bureaucrats to the participation of citizens in public administration.    In Ukraine, as one example, government has not historically been of the people, by the people, and for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citizen Participation Counts!</title>
		<link>http://www.advocacy.org/blog/archives/21</link>
		<comments>http://www.advocacy.org/blog/archives/21#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 15:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gretchen Elias</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[(Or, the story of how one activist motivated an apathetic, apolitical citizen (me!) ) by A Spot Guest Blogger Gretchen Elias 
My roommate, Jess, works for Toxics Action Center, a nonprofit spin-off of the Public Interest Research Group  (PIRG).  The PIRG is a nationwide advocacy organization with a network of affiliated nonprofits in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy and Peace-building: Rethinking the Conventional Wisdom</title>
		<link>http://www.advocacy.org/blog/archives/20</link>
		<comments>http://www.advocacy.org/blog/archives/20#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Crawford</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Teresa Crawford]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[collaboration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[consensus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So along with the blogs and e-mail newsletters which flood my in box every day I am also subscribed to updates from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.  They have a great project on leadership and building state capacity which has had a number of interesting meetings over the years and whose staff [...]]]></description>
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