Online Organizing

Here comes everybody? Well, almost. As more people get their hands on the tools of communication and collaboration, it’s become ridiculously easy to form a group and agitate around any case. But for all the multiplying ways that we’re discovering to network and connect, online organizing still takes knowledge and practice. Giant e-groups like MoveOn.org, with its millions of email members, are constantly honing their approach. Online political hubs like DailyKos.com, Reddit.com, Change.org and Freedom Connector don’t self-organize magically; smart network weavers tend to those gardens of activity, taking care to moderate conversations and filter (some) behavior, to ensure that a real community of purpose takes hold. Here at techPresident, we’re constantly covering the many ways that savvy online organizers go about their work.