Can you help us with an act.ly please? (specificaly asked to post this on the DU!)

[Omaha Steve]

There was an article published about Netroots NY that names me, Asher Huey (DC activist may of you probably know) and Liz Jenkins (new media person at SEIU's 32bj in NYC). The article is pretty good except that it calls us hackers. I'm not a hacker and if I were I certainly wouldn't advertise it by talking about it at a panel at a public conference. We're having a little fun pushing back against them with this act.ly petition. It would be great if everyone could tweet/sign it and spread this around to anyone you know

Hey @IncMagazine please stop calling progressive activists “hackers.” Please correct your story. http://act.ly/5dv RT to sign

Petition:

Inc. Magazine published an article mentioning online political activists Beth Becker, Elizabeth Jenkins and Asher Huey after their appearances at the progressive political conference Netroots New York.

In all, the article was a fair and informative rundown of some of what was said, except for one glaring and unmistakable error. The article lists the political activists as “hackers” who could “wreak havoc” on your company. None of the three mentioned are hackers, have the ability to hack anything and object to being identified as such. Additionally, there is no mention of any sort of malicious hacking, only political and social advocacy through social media tools.

Since Act.ly was mentioned in the article, we thought it’d be fun to demonstrate to them how we don’t hack, we ask.

Inc. Magazine should correct the story so as not to mislabel/misidentify the activists and to not mislead their readers.

The article is here: http://www.inc.com/tim-donnelly/meet-the-hackers-who-could-take-down-your-business.html

You can follow the activists here:

Beth Becker: @spedwybabs
Elizabeth Jenkins: @elizaj
Asher Huey @asherhuey

Thanks!!

[freshwest]

1. Kicking for visibiliity and will share with progressives. (I don't twitter.)

[Omaha Steve]

2. Kick

[Saving Hawaii]

3. Hackers are scary.

Y du u hakz Omaha Steve?