<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Frank -<br><br></div>Thanks for the orienting questions! I hope we will talk about these as well. <br><br></div><div>Niloufar Salehi's talk on Dynamo will talk about at least one attempt to support action based organizing among an online-only work community. I'm looking forward to seeing what others know about organizing across offline/online. <br><br>The Design the Future of Networked Work workshop on Sunday is one place where we can sit down and think speculatively about possible tools for self organizing. I hope others interested in actions moving forward will think about coming. <br><br>Lilly<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Frank Kashner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fkashner@gmail.com" target="_blank">fkashner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">In our preparation for this conference we are focused on the following questions and their relevance to our says-us / gnunion projects. We are looking forward to rich conversations in the conference and in our and other’s workshops.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">How do problems of Digital Labor (DL) compare to those of non-DL, unorganized labor?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">How do we understand the current strategies and tools being used to attempt to improve pay and working conditions for Digital Laborers?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Can we imagine more tools to help all of labor to be able to self-organize?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">If so, how can they be implemented?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Can we add action based organizing to current predominantly reputation based organizing?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Frank Kashner<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Says-Us.Net    <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:info@says-us.net" target="_blank">info@says-us.net</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">facebook: says-us<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">twitter: @says_us<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Örsan Şenalp<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Global Networked Labour Union<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://gnunion.wordpress.com" target="_blank">gnunion.wordpress.com</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:gnunion@networg.nl" target="_blank">gnunion@networg.nl</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">@OneBigMeshwork<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><br>______________________________________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