How will social networking affect communities and their leadership? It will dramatically lower the cost of community organizing. We’ll see more protest groups but we’ll see something far more important: an era of shared responsibility.
Archives for June 2010
A Case Study in Small-P Politics
In 1961, more than 110,000 people spent time in New York City’s overcrowded jails, and the number was rising fast. Many weren’t convicted of a crime; they were awaiting trial and couldn’t afford bail. Bail is basically an insurance policy. You (or a professional bail bondsman) put up something of value to insure you’ll appear […]
The Skills of Small-P Politics
In the past, we’ve depended on the few to lead us. Now we must depend on the many. The key to making broad-based community leadership work is to teach more people the skills of small-p politics.