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Social networks can be a lot more than a way to find your high-school friends or learn what your chosen celebrity experienced for breakfast. They could be powerful tools for changing the planet. With Share This! both regular folks of a progressive bent and determined activists can learn how to go beyond swapping movie reviews and getaway photos (not that there surely is anything incorrect with that). At the moment, the same kinds of folks who dominate the dialog off-line are dominating it online, and things won't change if it doesn't change. Progressives have to get on internet sites and discuss their stories, become a member of conversations, connect with others - and not only others the same as themselves. It's essential to attain out across those ethnic/gender/preference/class/age lines that exist even within the progressive camp. As Deanna Zandt puts it, "creating a just society is sort of like the evolution of the types - if you have a bunch of the same DNA combining together, the types mutates poorly and finally dies off." But there are definitely do's and don'ts. Zandt delves into exactly what people are and are not looking for in online exchanges. How to be a good guest. What things to show. Why authenticity is more important than just about anything, including traditional notions of experience or power. She addresses some typically common fears, like fretting about providing too much about yourself away, blurring the lines between your professional and personal life, or getting buried under a steaming heap of information overload. And she offers specific, nuts-and bolts "how to begin" advice for both individuals and organizations.