Here is a list of web sites that was compiled by Jessmyn Sabbag at Future5000 at the evolution of media workshop that I thought might be helpful for anyone.



Social Networking:
Facebook.com
MySpace.com
MyBLOC.net – specifically for young progressive activists and organizers
Future5000.com – for progressive youth organizations
GoodReads.com – get book recommendations from people you know
LibraryThing.com – create your own online library and share it
AskBigQuestions.com – providing an open space for students to ponder life’s big questions
WeCanNetwork.org – specifically pertaining to developing a clean energy future created by students at the University of Minnesota
Change.org – network and connect with activists and organizations
UpScoop.com – linking social networking profiles
Chipin.com – linking social networking profiles

Multi-media:
YouTube.com
TubeMogul.com: TubeMogul is a free service that provides a single point for deploying uploads to the top video sharing sites, and powerful analytics on who, what, and how videos are being viewed.
Witness.org
Zamzar.com – free online file converting (steal video off websites)

Research:
Future5000.com – a national directory and networking site of progressive youth organizations
WiretapMag.org – an online magazine about the youth movement (current feature article is about this YP4 Summit)
Archive.org – a comprehensive digital library
Google (duh)
GoodSearch.org – donates a portion of every search to an organization of your choice; uses the Google search engine
Indymedia.org – grassroots, non-corporate coverage
FairData2000.com - Community-based Mapping and Data Solutions for Education, Environment, Housing, and Poverty-related Issues
Wikipedia
GapMinder.org – demographic information
GovTrack.us – government statistics
Pollster.org – poll results, great for election results

Elections:
League of Young Voters & MoveOn’s online primary election tool – track results by network
VotePoke.org – Look up if and where you’re registered to vote
RockTheVote.org – register to vote, Rock the Caucus, etc

Phones:
pinger.com – instant voice messaging for cell phones
saynow.com – Mostly Hip-Hop celebrities making robo-calls
Skype – a free program to make calls over the internet, all for free

Blogging:
WordPress.com
TypePad.com

Other:
YouthMediaCouncil.org – toolkit of communications resources for the progressive youth movement
ItsGettingHotInHere.org – dispatches from the youth climate movement
Del.icio.us.com – a collection of favorites (bookmarks) – your’s and everyone else’s
DemocracyInAction – Wiring the progressive movement – constituent relationship management systems

A few weeks ago I went to a conference in Washington D.C. for YoungPeopleFor. In one of our breakout workshops, I elected to go to one on the evolution of media hosted by Future5000 and a representative from Facebook. This is a YouTube video about Web 2.0 called "The Machine is Us/ing Us" that we watched and I think would be applicable to this class.

Linking exercise:

After half a centruy of scholarly work, new documents about the lives of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg have been made public.

"Certainly, after 50 years, the unique historical value of these records outweighs any secrecy rationale," said Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive, which filed the petition, with support from more than a dozen scholars. The archive, based at George Washington University, is a nonprofit group that uses the Freedom of Information Act to challenge government secrecy.

Among the historians were John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett professor of military and naval history at Yale, and Ronald Radosh, adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington and past president of the Historians of American Communism.