Social Media as a change agent

Is Esrati.com the Wikileaks of Dayton Ohio?

It’s been interesting to watch how Wikileaks made the last big leak available, to traditional media first and the rest of us later. Wasn’t that the point of the web- access to everybody? But, in this information overloaded society- we still look to established sources and tools to evaluate and analyze data for us. The Read More

Solving the digital divide? Do you have suggestions?

In my real world job, I work in advertising. I’m active in my professional organization, the local chapter of the AAF. I’ve been in since day one of the planning of an annual event called summitup– where we bring social media gurus to talk in Dayton and try to school the masses on what social Read More

The return to neighborhood schools

When I first ran for Mayor, at the same time Mike Turner ran for Mayor- I talked about the return to neighborhood schools. Turner mocked me- saying it was an issue for the School Board. I talked about the effect it had on our community- exchanging racial segregation for economic segregation. I was told it Read More

Would you like Democracy with that?

Since the traditional media doesn’t work the way it used to- many voters (who were even mailed a notice from the BOE) aren’t going to remember the special election next Tuesday, July 13- with the centralized voting locations in Montgomery, Highland and Clinton Counties. So- I’m printing up some postcards for delivery drivers to take Read More

Fracking Citizen Journalists

Yesterday my neighbor Larry told me I had to see “Gasland” – and I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t know about it. This is one of the major problems facing any activist- how do you get people to pay attention to your cause- or find your blog, or your video. It’s not as easy as Read More

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