Hi -

I'm going to be out of town starting this afternoon, and then pretty much till Oct. 15. I'll be checking my email, etc. at least every couple of days - but things will be a little slow in the contact department till after I get back, so don't expect real quick response to anything.

I'll be in Minneapolis at Nordic Roots Festival over the weekend, then leaving for Nova Scotia for a while. Then going immediately to a business show for 2 days, so it's gonna be nuts.

A few of us have been kicking around the idea of having a meeting for progressive bloggers and webmasters later in the year. It struck me that one good possibility might be to do this in conjunction with Fighting Bob Fest - but I'm very open to suggestions. Ideas ? Either comment here or drop me a line through the contact button at the top of the site.

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At the moment I'm furiously getting together some stuff for the Fighting Bob Fest this weekend. I'm hoping that the PWMW group can get some traction during the Fighting Bob Fest and we can get some new members and a little more involvement.

In the mean time - please sign up for this subgroup on Uppity Wisconsin, and let's talk about new and great ideas, etc.

I've created this topic as an area to discuss how we could work together better as Wisconsin progressives. I have been trying for some time to put together a more cooperative atmosphere for different progressive groups in the state, and to promote more cooperative ventures between different web technologies working for change.

This has been going considerably less than well. So I ask the question - what specifically can we do to work together better as progressives, particularly in the areas of technology and spreading the word via any means?

Progressives have a hard slog ahead of them. The election is coming up, and will bring with it not only a lot of very important candidate choices, but also state-wide referenda of great importance. It's time we stop acting like we're a whole log of different totally self-interested one-issue groups, and start to act like we're all in this together and need to help each other out toward a common goal of improving life in Wisconsin and the world.

This is the reason I started this web site - to provide a big umbrella for different progressive groups in the state that want to work together. But I don't think that's nearly enough.