I am speechless. watch the video.

Seth's Blog.has a good riff on engagement, big groups, fundraising and volunteering. We need to work harder in thinking of valuable things online volunteers can do to help move an agenda. Do they help you write thnak you notes? Do they call other volunteers?

I have a killer project in the works.

Here is a great riff by Michele Martin on the failures to create conversation via a blog. It is a really good riff.

At the heart of her six reasons are the basic rules of conversation. The same reason you don't want to talk to the looser at the bar or picnic translates online.

This is a very cool tool tracking news and chatter on the election.

I love distributed training. This looks like a cool model.

Democracy for America » DFA Night School

Clay has pulled together a solid theory of organizing and networks. I can not wait for the new book and hope everyone picks up a copy. He is a solid leader in the space and has thrown down a new set of case studies and frames for thinking about what make networks function.

Did you have an email strategy when 30% of the US population had email? Do you have a web strategy when 63% of the country is on the net? Where is your mobile strategy?

Turning Shopping into Advocacy via a Mobile Phone | MobileActive.org

Jeong-Hyun Lim the self-taught 23 year old Korean with a month of guitar lessons ....

Tuesday Tips: Why Nonprofit Managers Must Use RSS ... And How to Start | DemocracyInAction

Here is the paper for follow up to our discussion. I would also recommend the following link:

Here's
your chance to do some old fashioned, person-to-person reporting: Call
up a lobbying firm and verify that we have indeed identified a former
congressional insider who's moved on to K Street. We give you a really

I have often talked about the story of Alex's Lemonade Stand  as one of the great examples of network-centric organizing.

And now for something totally different...

My new favorite sports channel

Food for thought..How are you organizing your message and audience on cell phones?

MobileActive

Distributed leadership training... very cool.

They have videos related to grassroots mobilization, including the 24-minute training video and extended interviews with national experts in the field. The videos are played at organized hose parties and the n the house parties unite via web conference for final Q& A.

Link: Center for Progressive Leadership Action Network.

From 10 Hours a Week, $10 Million a Year - New York Times

Mr. Frind has refined a formula for analyzing customer feedback and arriving at a determination of whether a given forum post is spam and should automatically be deleted. He has also devised some new software twists that enable him to offload work to his customers, letting users review the photos that are uploaded to the site.