Compass for Change

Last night I attended a great event hosted by Downtown Community Television, the New York City Grassroots Media Coalition, the Youth Activists Youth Allies network (YA YA network), and the North Star Fund. Together they have put together an activist resource website called Compass for Change. It's a really easy to use website designed to help community organizers connect and collaborate. The main feature is a calander where organizations can post their events and you can see all the amazing NYC-based activist and community events that are going on. In other technology news, the Grassroots Media Coalition has added skill sharing, bast-fax and a dispatch centers to their website, enabling users to keep up with news of the world related to indpendent media and culture, contact dozens of media outlet in a single step and share how-to's. It's also always nice to see organizations that, in addition to creating easy to use tech tools, they also connect it to on-the-ground organizing and having actual events, including the upcoming NYC Grassroots Media conference in February. The call for proposals for workshops is up on their website, so check it out and start thinking!