Facebook Places has people all atwitter about the promise of location awareness. Commercial interests have already begun to take small steps toward turning existing services, like Foursquare and Gowalla, into money-making machines. Digital advocates will not be left on the side of the road, either. Chris Connelly offers up a good blog post with some [...]
The Petition as an Online Activism Tool
August 18, 2010 By
“The truth is, online petitions to Congress and others are pretty much a sham.” So says Clay Johnson in a recent blog post where he calls into question the merits not just of petitions specifically but of “calls to action” generally. Alas, he’s wrong. Petitions serve a number of valuable roles — both for the [...]
Social Networking Sites: Framing the Future of Grassroots Outreach
March 31, 2009 By
Internet advocates are expanding their activities beyond web-based outreach. Through the use of social networking sites, successful tech savvy advocates are linking up and starting new grassroots efforts.
Are Obama’s Early Virtual Grassroots Efforts Working?
February 8, 2009 By
Now the Obama campaign has a massive list of supporters and donors with disparate motivations and desires. It is likely that not all of them support the stimulus package currently on the table, and it is even more likely that support for future policy battles will steadily erode as details emerge and divergent viewpoints resurface.
Nevertheless, Obama has an important resource and even partial success could translate into legislative victories in Washington, DC.
Building Obama’s Presidential Grassroots Organization
February 7, 2009 By
Usually when a presidential election concludes, the campaign goes dormant for a few years while much of the party-building and other grassroots activities switches to the national party committee and state and local campaigns. Not the Obama campaign. They have decided — probably wisely — to try to continue to harness the energy of its [...]
The ArnoldBucks Video
February 5, 2009 By
The web enables activists to deploy innovative and often humorous campaigns — often efforts that would have been far more difficult and certainly much more costly using traditional methods. The current economic crisis has stirred frustration and anger among many. One West Coast activist is now taking advantage of new media to drive home his [...]
