The Urban Labs

The Mission of The Urban Labs is to increase the effectiveness of community organizing by integrating new media and mobile phone platforms to enhance connectivity and deepen relationships between individuals and community organizing.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Developing a Livelist; A proposal

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Developing the LiveList A proposal This proposal is being jointly submitted by The Urban Labs (MIT CoLab)to initiate the creation of a un...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Putting the New Year in Perspective

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As I tried to get a Top Ten list ready for the New Year I could not find the motivation. We have had some moments that make great storie...
Wednesday, November 3, 2010

nursing a 3 billion dollar hang over

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  Here's some thoughts I am taking away from the past two years and the 2010 election: Kudos to the organizations doing the street le...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

In it for the long haul...why enthusiasm doesn't always matter.

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This week my family celebrated my grandparents 59th wedding anniversary. When I called them to wish them a happy anniversary my grandmot...
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

organizing is not campaigning, and high numbers does not mean effective organizing

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Last night I had a very interesting conversation with a friend of mine who is  creating a tech start up catalyzing local civ...
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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Crowdsourcing a Campiagn

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For the past four years Doritos has hosted Crash the Super Bowl, a contest for consumer generated ad’s. Doritos gets thousands of ad's...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Being a champion not a rock star candidate

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There is only one way to counter the effects of organized money… organized people.   The true keeper of this country’s democracy...
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Malia Lazu is a Mel King Community Fellow at M.I.T.’s Community Innovator’s Lab, initiating a project called The Urban Labs. It's vision is to increase the efficiency of outreach and organizing by finding ways to keep communities connected to community-based organizations and to each other. Malia believes the right people together create a unique synergy that’s necessary for evolution and personal transformation. She has spent over a decade organizing urban communities.
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