smartMeme : Index

"SmartMeme is a one-of-a-kind essential resource for creative resistance. It provides the tools, analysis, and unique instruction to help "we the people" create real and lasting change."

-Antonia Juhasz, author of "The Bush Agenda" and the forthcoming "The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry and What We Must Do to Stop it"

[Advanced Training] Applications open for 2012 Application deadline Feb 15, 2012! Our 2012 Advanced Story-based Strategy Practitioners Training is set for April 15-19th 2012 near Boston, MA. This one-of-kind, full immersion training is by application only, open to alumni of smartMeme trainings and experienced organizers, communicators and strategy facilitators who want to deepen practice together!

[2011] Our Picks for Memes of the Year As 2011 draws to a close, we are looking back on an extraordinary year. Here's our round up of memes of the year, from Arab Spring to Wikileaks, from The 1% to The Wisconsin Wave...

[Tools/Analysis] Can the #Occupy Movement Be a Turning Point? by Doyle Canning As the Wall Street occupation continues, Boston residents are sitting in to save their homes -- and providing a lesson in how to sustain the powerful spark of the #Occupy movement.

[Tools/Analysis] Beautiful Trouble: Exciting publication with strategic tools, case studies, & concepts for creative action. SmartMeme contributed sections on story-based strategy, and co-branded the project with Yes Labs and Agit-Pop. Donate today and help this get published!