Comments on: The MoveOn Effect Gets Charitable

By: 21st century organizing in the health care debate - shouting loudly

21st century organizing in the health care debate - shouting loudly — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:45:34 +0000

[...] around targeted actions in response to whatever issue stands at the public agenda (as discussed in this blog post from roughly a year ago). Those fundraising and membership changes have important [...]

By: Dave Karpf

Dave Karpf — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:58:03 +0000

That raises an important side question… how many “20-somethings like Eli Pariser” are there, really? What I mean is that Pariser’s ability with new media is 1-part generational to 10-parts insane skill set. There are a ton of 20-somethings who are doing unimpressive work online. One of the benefits of the power law topography of internet-mediated organizations is that it lets the bigger orgs get really, really big. And that means that the highest-talent individuals can have a bigger impact than they otherwise would.

But yeah, there’s sort of a grim comedy to watching a lot of the older orgs make early forays into online communications.

By: Ben Jones

Ben Jones — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:52:09 +0000

If MoveOn.org were doing print mail, it would still be more compelling than the navel gazing of most enviro organizations.

I think that some of the grassroots leadership training you’ve been a part of putting in place helps us get to the story telling that needs to happen, but I think it will be some time before it percolates.

I’ve done some work over the past year for TPL, and they, no joke, hired the person who creates their annual report as the web and enews content creator, using a web infrastructure impossible to make sticky or interactive.

The lesson may be that we need more 20-somethings like Eli Pariser running major national progressive “brands.”