Category Archives: online organizing

Online Organizing: Writers Guild 2.0: The Message Get Your Hustle Online

March 1, 2010

NEW YORK – Anita Ondine, Mo Koyfman, and Mark Lukasiewcz rallied to discuss the economics of digital media as a kickoff to the WGAE’s new digital media education program. The message? Pretty simple. It’s time for writers in the guild to get their hustle on and online. It’s been two years since the Writer’s Strike, and in those two years the entertainment industry has been revolutionized by technologists and entrepreneurs, many attempting to democratize media distribution, kill the old models [...]

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Online Organizing: Wait, now we have to donate to Chile too?

March 1, 2010

Chile is one of the top topics trending on Twitter, but rapidly falling out of popularity, eclipsed by Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus’s new boyfriend. A simple search of “Chile + Donation” reveals that the socially-driven donation nation is well underway. But, Twitter also reveals sentiments that it’s tired with some users tweeting “we have to donate to Chile too?” Disaster tech is underway, with Google launching new apps to find the missing, crisismappers mapping the disaster areas, photos documenting wreckage [...]

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Online Organizing: Fundraising & the Social Web

February 23, 2010

Social Assets (Facebook Fan Page, Twitter, YouTube Channel, etc.) are marketing channels that help you get your organization’s message and content out to your audience. Facebook and Twitter alone won’t get you contributions! Facebook and Twitter are awesome web 2.0 supplements to your fundraising strategy to: Raise awareness Connect with your constituents Drive traffic to your organization’s website (the site with the big “donate” button) Get feedback Announce events Share “Thank You” & “Congratulations” messaging publicly Promote action for your [...]

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Online Organizing: Leveraging Love & Tech to Self-Organize, Online Tools for Progressive Clergy to Advocate for LGBT Community

February 13, 2010

Historically both clergy and faith communities have been powerful forces of change, rallying movements for social justice in America. Perhaps no other single community has caused a larger divide in collective clergy-driven support than that of of the LGBT community fighting for marriage equality (this also covers family equality for gay, lesbian, transgender persons, bisexuals, queer and questioning youth). The LGBT community has their own voice and the support of many other groups, but it is the support of progressive [...]

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What’s Left? An Interview With Jennifer Nedeau, Former Director of Digital Strategy, Air America Media

January 23, 2010

Editor’s Note: For scheduling reasons and maybe as the result of awkwardly shaped serendipity I interviewed Jen Nedeau, Director of Digital Strategy at Air America Media, the week before Air America announced that it was filing for bankruptcy. The majority of this article therefore was written in advance and without knowledge of Air America’s last live broadcast. Jennifer Nedeau, former Director of Digital Strategy, Air America Media I mention this because it’s important to note that the majority of what [...]

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