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• Charles Leadbeater on Innovation
  This 18:58 minute TED talk is about creative collaboration.  Users have incentives and  tools to organize now without organizations.  Innovations develop over a period of time.  New organizational models are developing to address public policy.  Bloggers, for instance, do not want to organize.  They want a say in the development or change of policy.
   
• Omar Ahmad: Political change with pen and paper
  This 6:08 minute TED talk identifies the drivers for politicians to pay attention to contacts from citizens and federal employees.  Handwritten letters get the attention of politicians better than any other method of communication.
   
• Clay Shirkey: How social media can make history
  This 15:48 minute TED talk was filmed at the U.S. State Department.  The speaker argues that the internet provides a way for the many to enter a conversation.  It coordinates other media so the members can be a producer, not just a consumer.  Citizens can help governments be informed such as when Chinese citizens reported earthquakes as they happened.  Citizens can become full participants in government.
   
• Social Media in Society 
  Richard French, host of Richard French Live and panelists; V.P. of Empire Government Strategies, Anthony Figliola and Executive Director of Social Innovation at Blue State Digital, Ryan Davis discuss the pros and cons of social media in modern society in this 17:37 video.