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That’s right, Hey. As my grandmother used to say, “Hay is for horses”.
Organizing
Build Tools For Organizers, Not to Replace Them
One of the most gratifying things about doing this work over the last 6 or 7 years has been to watch organizations embrace digital tools.
Weekly Web Round Up - Oct. 12
A couple of reality-check items came up in our reader this week. Those of us who do this work, either on the service or the client end, spend our days living within the confines of our screens.
Ditto book club: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
I have wanted to read "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", by Joe Trippi, for a while now. Being a Ditto for almost four months, I thought it was time for a few reasons. It's known to be an excellent description of the rebirth of grassroots organizing in the digital empowerment age.
Movement-Building and Email-Sending: a conversation about the MoveOn Effect
I was invited to join FireDogLake for an online chat with Dave Karpf, author of The MoveOn Effect. This post is an edited version of some of the material I posted at FireDogLake.com.
Exciting News from Orton Family Foundation
I love it when our clients do something big. Last week, our client the Orton Family Foundation announced a major new national partnership aimed at strengthening communities and civic involvement across the country.
A Lesson From Change.org's Union Buster Dilemma
There is a lot of talk today about the Change.org decision to dump the "union busting" petition started on their site recently.
Tell me a story
In the 2006 Preakness Stakes, Barbaro, a horse widely expected to have the best chance at winning the Triple Crown as any horse since Affirmed in 1978, pulled up shortly after the start of the race, hopping on three legs while his right hind dangled uselessly.
Lessons from a former nonprofit nerd
As the newest Ditto to the team, I've spent the last two weeks learning a great deal about how things work here at EchoDitto. Tyler recently posted a pretty exhaustive report of the EchoDitto culture, if you want to catch up on that.
Web Applications for the Masses: Online Organizing and the Coming Web Revolution, part 2
In part 1 of this series, I broke out the fortune-telling orb and saw a future full of web applications on all sorts of devices, across a variety of websites and requiring a drastically reduced amount developer resources compared to just a year or two ago.
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