Online Organizing

Should OWS Switch to Online-Enabled Guerrilla Actions?

Colin Delany | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: 99%, Protests, Ows, Online Organizing, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street Future, Occupy Online, Occupy Movement, Politics News

Why not cede physical ground to the police and city authorities as needed, giving up on the idea of long-term physical occupation when it's necessary. Why not short-term occupations as they make sense?

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The Internet as a Tool for Repression

Mark Engler | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: Egypt, RSA Animate, Iran, Tunisia, Online Organizing, Evgeny Morozov, Twitter Revolution, World News

Evgeny Morozov criticizes the assumption that the Internet is necessarily helping to promote democracy.

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A Surprising Barrier to Web Organizing: Facebook

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Facebook Libya, Facebook Egypt, Online Organizing, Gaddafi, Libya, Egypt, Technology News

While Facebook, the platform, helped advance protests in the Middle East, the company's rules and architecture actually impeded organizers in Egypt.

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Looking for What Works: Best Online Organizing Reads of 2010

Michael Silberman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media, Clicktivism, Organizing, Social Change, Community Organizing, Engagement, Malcolm Gladwell, Online Organizing, Best of 2010, Best Of, Impact News

But behind the buzz about Gladwell and Wikileaks last year were some truly inspired commentaries that enriched the entire field of online organizing and digital social change-making.

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10/10/10 Global Work Party: How Social Media Made It Happen

Corbin Hiar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copenhagen Climate Talks, 350.Org, Open Source, Diplomacy, Greenpeace, Online Organizing, 10-10-10, Social Media, Politics, Global Work Party, Jess Leber, Activism, Steven Chu, Climate Change, Skype, Un, Bill Mckibben, Tea Party, Green Politics, Environmental Activism, Malawi, The New Yorker, International Day of Climate Action, Barack Obama, Chris Eaton, change.org, Foreign Policy, Step It Up, Phil Aroneanu, Middlebury College, New Media, Koch Industries, Denmark, Climate Bill, Green News

With international negotiations at a standstill, 350.org, Greenpeace and others are using every new media tool available to share their climate message. Two days before 10/10/10, they had registered nearly 7,000 events in 188 countries.

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PdF: Can the Internet Fix Politics?

Micah Sifry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pdf Conference, Internet Politics, Pdf, Online Organizing, Personal Democracy Forum, Online Grassroots, Internet Fix Politics, Technology News

While we all agree the internet is changing politics, can it fix politics too? Can it make politics more open, participatory, responsive and accountable?

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Conservative Movement Energized By New Media

The Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Erik Erickson, New Media, Conservatives, Online Organizing, Tea Party, Repubicans, Politics News

The ability of a single e-mail to shape a message illustrates the power of the conservative network -- loosely affiliated blogs, radio hosts, "tea-par...

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Scott Brown's Massachusetts Insurgency Shows How Online Organizing Has Shifted the Political Calculus

Colin Delany | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twitter, Fundraising, Facebook, Online Organizing, Scott Brown Massachusetts, Martha Coakley Senate Seat, Politics News

A Scott Brown twenty years ago might have had the pickup truck and the personal charisma, but he wouldn't have had the cheap or free online communications channels that a modern campaign can use.

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Obama Online -- Using Technology, It's the Electorate That Has Changed, Too

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twitter, One Year Later, Barack Obama Online, Obama Online, Facebook, Online Organizing, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Text Messaging, Jav on Tech, Technology News

For as much as Barack Obama has brought change to Washington, it's also us, the people participating and engaging with politics using technology , that have changed, too.

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Organizing for America's "Time to Deliver" Is Now

Micah Sifry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Congress, Barack Obama, Jeremy Bird, Organizing for America, Online-Organizing, Technology News

Today, Obama is doing something no sitting U.S. President has done before. He is using his massive network of grass-roots supporters to generate pressure from below on them to pass health care reform.

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Winning in 2010: Putting the Pieces Together

Colin Delany | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Online Organizing, Online Advertising, 2010 Elections, Obama Technology, Elections 2010, Politics News

Not only will the new Congress help determine the fate of Barack Obama's remaining agenda, but the state legislators who take their seats in 2011 will redraw districts across the country.

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ActOnPrinciples.org: The Follow-Up to the Big Gay Weekend

Lane Hudson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LGBT Rights, Gay Rights, The Dallas Principles, Online Organizing, Act on Principles, Grassroots, Gay Issues, Politics News

The big question for gay rights following this weekend's march is whether the momentum will continue. Act On Principles is a call for full civil equality with "no delay and no excuses."

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How Democrats Can Avoid Disaster in 2010: Organize Their Base Online

Colin Delany | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet Politics, Online Organizing, 2010 Elections, Elections 2010, Politics News

Are Democrats doomed in 2010, with an energized Republican Party capitalizing on a backlash against a young president's ambitious agenda to seize control of Congress a la 1994?

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New Twitter Lists, Social Influence & Torture

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twitter, Social Media, The Nation, Online Organizing, Social Networking, Bob Fertik, Twitter Lists, Media News

Previously, Twitter essentially held the market on recommending users, through its official list of suggested users. But it just launched a tool enabling users to create their own lists on the site.

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Winning Online: 10 Tips for 2010 Campaigns (Part II)

Matt Dunn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interactive, New Technology, Online Advertising, 2010 Elections, Online, Email, Campaign Strategy, Democrats, Online Organizing, Obama Technology, Elections 2010, Technology News

The reality is that Election Day 2010 is one year away. It's time for campaigns to start gearing up, and interactive needs to play a bigger role than it did in 2008 or 2009.

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Tea Partiers Organize Online, Emulating Obama and Progressive Blogs

Colin Delany | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Republican Party, Online Organizing, Tea Party, Online Fundraising, Web 2.0, Politics News

The Left has no monopoly on internet organizing; the tools don't care who uses them. Tea Partiers can learn from Obama just as much as anyone else can.

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350 Global Day of Action: A New Bright Line for Digital Organizing

Michael Silberman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 350.Org Day of Action, Climate Change, 350.Org, Community Organizing, Online Organizing, 350 Campaign, International, Green News

Good organizers embody the idea that nothing can be achieved alone -- so they naturally inspire others to join the effort and even encourage others to take ownership of various components.

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Manage Your Online Time Wisely

WSJ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manage Time, Online Organizing, Time Management, Online, Technology News

New tools are available online to help people stay on track when they're working on the computer -- and many of them are free....

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Unmasking Your Power

Stephen Funk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media News, Youth, New Media, Online Organizing, Media News

60 young organizers chosen for a crash course in utilizing new media for progressive campaigning will be tested today in an interactive online mock campaign.

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Progressives Just Get It: The New Organizing Institute's Mock Campaign Election Supersizes DC Politics

Katie Naranjo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Media, Youth, Online Organizing, Media News

Young progressive organizers from across the United States join the New Organizing Institute's BootCamp to learn and engage their peers in the newest wave of campaigning -- new media.

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Is Gov't 2.0 Having A Tea-Bagging, Twittered Moment?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tax Day Tea Party, Populism, Twitter, Wilshire and Washington, President Obama, New Media, Glenn Beck, Facebook, Tea Party, Online Organizing, Media News

Adriel Hampton joins our hosts Ted Johnson and Maegan Carberry to talk twitter and populism.

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Fast-Rising Protest Group Challenges Power of the Bankers

Kristina Rizga | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monopoly, A New Way Forward, Youth, Simon Johnson, Bank Bailout, Online Organizing, Tiffiniy Cheng, Financial Crisis, Politics News

In the first three weeks, 8,000 people of all ages signed up to participate in protests planned in over 55 cities. WireTap talked to Tiffiniy Cheng to find out why A New Way Forward thinks a different bailout plan is urgent.

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Liberals Try to Counter Conservatives on Twitter

Stefan Deeran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twitter, Conservatives, Online Organizing, Progressives, The Exception Magazine, The Internet, Internet, Twittering, Online, Computers, Web, Twitter Debate, Technology, Tweets, Media News

Conservatives are currently better connected than progressives on Twitter through their use of hashtags, a code users paste inside each tweet which tags posts that are relevant to specific audiences.

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Rebutting the Skeptics: Digital Media Is America's Ally

Jared Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Policy Digital Media, Civil Liberties, Al-Qaeda, Bloggers, Activists Digital Media, Facebook, Online Organizing, Foreign Policy, Extremists Digital Media, Digital Media, Digital Media Empowerment, Fouad Al-Farhan, Bloggers Arrested, Mumbai Attacks Digital Media, Technology, Blogging, Dorm Room Diplomacy, World News

Over the past year we have seen digital media empower populations around the world in unprecedented ways, but there are skeptics who don't buy into this trend as a force for social good.

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More Evidence of a Sustained Progressive Revival

Simon Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Conservative Ascendancy, Netroots Nation, Barack Obama Online Organizing, Progressive Infrastructure, Online Organizing, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Obama Campaign, Barack Obama Netroots, Politics News

This decade is one of extraordinary progressive revival. Dozens of new organizations have been started. Hundreds of new candidates have been elected to office. Millions of Americans awakened politically.

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