And Jen Nedeau has a follow-on Can social media save the day? on the change.org Women’s Rights blog, which also looks at the work that Tracy Viselli and Pamela Lyn have been doing with 24 Simulus. digg it too!

Here’s my reply:

Great post, Jen. Totally agreed that these techniques are complementary to traditional PR and offline organizing — and there’s a lot of work that could be done to meld them more effectively.

New media tools offer the potential to route around gatekeepers in the traditional media that marginalize women’s perspectives — and other perspectives too, such as youth, persons of color, lgbtq, civil liberties, …. In the Twitter universe, the tools are still being developed: clients like TweetDeck, multi-modal services like Twitr.me. So experiments like this and partnering with communities like progressives, civil libertarians, and journalists who are similarly learning and thinking about how to use Twitter is a great chance to help shape an activism platform that isn’t so male-dominated.

Speaking of which … please digg and retweet this post. While you’re at it, please check out Jim Harper’s action alert from the Technology Liberation Front on trademark abuse by Nordstrom that’s targeting a small woman-owned business … digg and retweet!

And more generally, please look for opportunities to use the #digg tag yourself — and share any suggestions on how to improve the approach!