http://www.netsquared.org/tags/voter-registration share stories about how web-based technologies are impacting people’s lives build toolkits for nonprofits around the globe to help extend their good work en-US http://www.netsquared.org/blog/jedsundwall/new-ways-organizing-interview-lola-elfman-new-organizing-institute <p> <img src="http://i35.tinypic.com/1ifp82.jpg" alt="Lola Elfman" align="left" /> <em>Lola Elfman, Senior Organizer at the New Organizing Institute, talks about how her organization is teaching non-profits across the US how to leverage technology to organize themselves, raise awareness, raise money, and save the world.</em> </p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/jedsundwall/new-ways-organizing-interview-lola-elfman-new-organizing-institute">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/jedsundwall/new-ways-organizing-interview-lola-elfman-new-organizing-institute#comments fundraising interviews organization organizing voter registration Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:20:29 -0400 jedsundwall 16725 at http://www.netsquared.org http://www.netsquared.org/blog/mstein63/mobile-phones-in-voting-and-elections-a-new-strategy-guide-from-mobileactive <p><img src="http://michaelstein.typepad.com/michael_stein/images/report1cover.jpg" alt="" hspace="1" vspace="1" width="100" height="128" align="left" />During the past few months I&#39;ve been researching the role of mobile phones as an emerging tool for participation in civil society.&nbsp; The result is a series of Strategy Guides published by <a href="http://www.mobileactive.org/" target="_blank">MobileActive</a> that are designed to equip organizations around the world with the know-how to deploy effective mobile campaigns for a variety of types of activism and advocacy. <strong>The first Guide in this series (published today) focuses on using mobile phones in electoral and voter registration campaigns</strong>. Other Guides will focus on advocacy, fundraising, and mobile organizing.&nbsp; This first Guide looks at uses of mobile phones in electoral monitoring (case studies in Thailand, the Philippines, and Montenegro), voter registration (U.S.-based Rock the Vote, MobileVoter, and Voto Latino), and candidate and political party support (case studies in Spain and U.S.).&nbsp; The Guides are a joint project of <a href="http://www.mobileactive.org/" target="_blank">MobileActive,</a> <a href="http://www.greenmediatoolshed.org/" target="_blank">Green Media Toolshed</a>, and <a href="http://www.nten.org/" target="_blank">NTEN,</a> and are made possible with support from the <a href="http://www.surdna.org/" target="_blank">Surdna Foundation</a>, a leader in supporting civic engagement and the use of technology in nonprofit organizations.&nbsp; My personal thanks to everyone who spent time helping me with research and fact finding. You can grab MobileActive Strategy Guide #1 at <a href="http://www.mobileactive.org/guides/" target="_blank">http://www.mobileactive.org/guides/</a>. </p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/mstein63/mobile-phones-in-voting-and-elections-a-new-strategy-guide-from-mobileactive">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/mstein63/mobile-phones-in-voting-and-elections-a-new-strategy-guide-from-mobileactive#comments mobile phone mobileactive nten surdna voter registration Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:23:30 -0400 mstein63 2125 at http://www.netsquared.org