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<ul><h6><a href="mailto:mailbag@smallchangenews.org">Contact Us!</a></h6><br />
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<ul><h6>Headline News</h6><br />
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<ul><h6>Local News <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://www.globalchicago.net/scnn/pops/members.txt')">
<img src="http://www.globalchicago.net/scnn/pops/icon_help_connect.gif"></A></h6> <br />
<li><a href="http://www.smallchangenews.org">Small Change News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.journeytopeace.org">Journey to Peace</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.chicagohumanist.org">Chicago Humanist</a></li>
<li><a href="http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/2004/09/13/some-small-changes/">Burningbird</a></li>
<li><a href="http://johnengle.blogspot.com">John Engle</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalchicago.net/wiki/wiki.cgi?MonksAtBairoling">Monks at Bairoling</a></li>
<li><I>(project blogs...)</i></li>
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</ul>
<ul><h6>Network News</h6><br />
<li><a href="http://nainn.blogspot.com">Nepal AI National Network</a></li>
<li>BALLE-BC(?)</li>
<li>Sustainability101(?)</li>
<li>InterraProject(?)</li>
<li>JourneyToPeace(?)</li>
<li>BC Aboriginal Youth(?)
<li><i>(node blogs)</i></li>
<br>
</ul>
<ul><h6>News You Can Use</h6><br />
<li><a href="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bloglines.com">Bloglines</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogrolling.com">Blogrolling</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.crabgrass.org">Crabgrass</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.freeconference.com">Free Conference</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mandarindesign.com">Mandarin Design</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalchicago.net/ost">Open Space Tech</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.paypal.com">PayPal</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sitemeter.com">SiteMeter</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.technorati.com">Technorati</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.usemod.com">UseModWiki</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com">YahooGroups</a></li>
</ul>
<ul><h6>Extra! Extra!</h6><br />
<li><a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com">Parking Lot</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.chicagohumanist.org">HumanizeTheEarth</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.balle-bc.com">Penny Scott</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.interraproject.org">Jon Ramer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gifthub.org">GiftHub</a></li>
<li><a href="http://curtrosengren.typepad.com/occupationaladventure/">Occupational Adventure</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.theobviousblog.net/blog/">The Obvious?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ashleycoop.blogspot.com">EasilyAmazed</a></li>
<li><i>(referring blogs)</i></li>
</ul>
<ul><h6>Newsmakers</h6><br />
<li><a href="http://www.gifthub.org">Phil Cubeta</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com">Chris Corrigan</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.haneberg-management">Lisa Haneberg</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/wiki/wiki/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceInstituteUSA">Open Space Institute USA</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.michaelherman.com">Michael Herman</a></li>
<li><i>(financial support)</i></li>
</ul>
<ul><h6>Old News</h6><br />
<li><a href="http://www.globalchicago.net/giving/givingwiki.cgi?GivingMarket/ConferenceNotes">Conference</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalchicago.net/giving/givingwiki.cgi?GivingMarket">Workspace</a></li><br />
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<ul><h6>Graffiti</h6><br />
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<ul><h6>It's All About Connecting... </h6><br />
<li><b><i>We want</b></i> to connect people, ideas and resources... with each other. We want to help announce what is good, share what is useful,
find what is needed and do more of what counts.</li><br />
<li><b><i>We have</b></i> explored many <i>ways</i> to do this and decided to
build out a new corner of the blogosphere for this specific and important purpose. We have built this first site and will continue
to develop and share it. </li><br />
<li><b><i>We need</b></i> people like you to <i>post your news,</i> projects, progress and gifts. And we need Network Affiliates,
organizers and connectors who want to clone this blog, post the logo, copy the Network News roll, and begin to build their own
Members News roll.</li><br />
<li><b><i>We will</b></i> post and link to the Small Change news, blogs
and sites that we find and we'll add <i>your project</i> blogs to our Members News roll or your own <i>replication</i> of
this page to the Network
News roll of Affiliates.</li><br />
<li>Soon we will open this space for <i>public posting</i>. Until we get live, open and fully public, we invite your attention,
good wishes, comments and assistance in spreading the word.</li><br />
<li>Thank you!</li><br />
</ul>
<ul><h6>What Do You Want?</h6><br />
<li>What is happening in your neighborhood, your school, and the larger world?</li><br />
<li>What do you see and hear? ...or smell? </li><br />
<li>What are you bumping into and how do you feel about it?</li><br />
<li>What should be happening? </li><br />
<li>How could the most important issues be addressed or resolved?</li><br />
<li>What do you want the solution to look and sound and feel like? </li><br />
<li>What is your own dream project?</li><br />
</ul>
<ul><h6>What Do You Have?</h6><br />
<li>Who are you and what do you already have going for you? </li><br />
<li>Who do you know? Where are you connected? </li><br />
<li>What's already working, and why? </li><br>
<li>How did you come to care about this issue? </li><br />
<li>What gifts, talents, passions, skills and experiences do you bring to this? </li><br />
<li>Are you spending your own time and money on making something
happen? </li><br />
<li>Do you have the funding and need people to work with? </li><br />
<li>Who's already supporting this project? </li><br />
<li>Who can we contact, as references, to find out more about the good work you've already been doing?</li>
</ul>
<ul><h6>What Do You Need?</h6><br />
<li>What would it take for you to make a difference? </li><br />
<li>Are you looking for partners? Connections? Some funding?
A place to meet? Some special sort of expertise? </li><br />
<li>What kind of connections and contributions do you need
to give your own gifts, and make your own contribution, more fully? </li><br />
<li>What kind of support do you need for
this project?</li>
</ul>
<ul><h6>What Will You Do?</h6><br />
<li>What will you do if you get the help you need? </li><br />
<li>What are your immediate next steps? </li><br />
<li>What results will you
produce? </li><br />
<li>Where will you report your progress and success stories? </li><br />
<li>How will all of this benefit you, your
contributors and the situation and people you are wanting to serve? </li><br />
<li>What can you promise to this project
and anyone else who will join you in it?<br />
</ul>
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<p><h2><b>An Open Space for Posting <i>Your</i> Small Change News</b></h2></p>
<p><i>Coming Soon: </i>In the next few weeks, we will open a new, publicly postable blog and invite postings of small
Change News by anyone and everyone with some passion for the common good and a willingness to take responsibility
for sharing and growing it.
</p><p>
This site will be an online clearinghouse for news and information, connections and contributions --
for ordinary, but passionate, individuals who are starting and running extraordinary community projects.
The sCNN will connect committed people improving their communities with funding and all kinds of
other support. This is about small change that really adds up.
</p><p>
In the meantime, before we can open publicly, watch the <a href="#weblog">weblog</a>
below for news about the Small Change News Network or visit our <a href="http://www.globalchicago.net/giving/givingwiki.cgi?SmallChangeNewsNetwork"
class="wikipagelink">wiki workspace</a> for a behind-the-scenes view of our vision and development work.
We're building and cleaning as fast as we can! <a href="mailto:mailbag@smallchangenews.org">Join our mailing list</a> and we'll email you when we go live.</p>
<p>
<b>Thanks for visiting sCNN... <i>Where Small Change Makes the News</i> ...and grows the Network for the common good. Please stay tuned!</b></p><br>
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