Feb 16 2010
originally posted by Will Urquhart at Sum of Change
Last week, we introduced Kenyon Farrow of Queers for Economic Justice, Calvin Williams of the Generational Alliance, and Althea Erickson of the Freelancers Union. They shared with us a brief summary of how their organizations had adopted some online tools.
This week, they delve into some of the challenges they faced along the way, and some insight into how they overcame them:
Feb 02 2010
originally posted by Mitch Malasky at Sum of Change
This week, we are going to follow up on last week’s post on the numbers you need to win your election. This week, we’re looking at special circumstances and unique elections and how that may or may not effect how you set your numbers.
Jan 26 2010
originally posted by Mitch Malasky at Sum of Change
This week’s Training Tuesday post revolves around a repeated mantra from Kendra-Sue Derby, this week’s trainer- It’s All About The Numbers. Before you start worrying about anything else in your campaign, you have to know how many votes you need to win. This seems relatively self-evident, but it is a number that often goes overlooked.
Jan 19 2010
originally posted by Will Urquhart at Sum of Change
Today’s Training Tuesday comes to us from the Organizing 2.0 Conference in New York back in December. During lunch, we were joined by Colin Delaney, of e.politics.com. He and Charles Lenchner, of the Working Families Party, held a conversation about how to translate lessons about new media from the Obama campaign to local campaigns.
Jan 13 2010
originally posted by Will Urquhart at Sum of Change
This week’s Training Tuesday takes us back to Democracy for America’s Campaign Academy in Gettysburg, PA 2009. For the last couple weeks we brought you lessons from the Organizing 2.0 conference, and we still have plenty more to come.
Anyways, first things first, a little history on the DFA campaign academy:
Jan 05 2010
Originally posted by Will Urquhart at Sum of Change
Dec 15 2009
originally posted by Will Urquhart at Sum of Change
This week, we have something new for our Training Tuesday series. We still have plenty of videos left to come from Democracy for America’s Campaign Academy, but a couple weekends back, we attended the Organizing 2.0 conference in New York. This conference was a unique opportunity for activists to learn about new media and online organizing from some of the greatest online organizers around.