Joan Blades
Joan Blades
Joan Bladesis an American businessperson and progressive political activist. In 1987, she and her husband Wes Boyd co-founded Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco Bay area software company known for marketing the After Dark screensaver and the You Don't Know Jack trivia game. After selling Berkeley Systems in 1997 for $13.8 million, Blades and Boyd founded the liberal political group MoveOn.org...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
CountryUnited States of America
american-businessman broadcast comments forum people post
Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about.
thinking people information
People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.
moving issues people
We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.
meaningful book people
A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.
american-businessman express members
We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do.
american-businessman unless
What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it.
american-businessman deliver experience members offices
When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff.
american-businessman book data equivalent finding less mothers paid shocked
The data that kind of shocked me and got me started on this book was finding out that mothers get paid a lot less for equivalent jobs.
ability given manifesto
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
strong way election
I find it odd that theres such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.
long voting voters
Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.
common-sense basics our-future
Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.
mother believe issues
Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.
training inclination mediators
I'm a mediator by training and inclination.