by Mary Joyce At last week’s Personal Democracy Forum, Beth Kanter and Allison Fine gave a keynote on their new book, The Networked Nonprofit. I’m often frustrated by how advice for nonprofits is vague (“listen more”) and tool-based (“Android or iPhone for your cause?”), so I was really glad to hear Beth and Allison’s overarching [...]

NOTE: We’ve posted a free downloadable copy of our new book Digital Activism Decoded and on July 1st the paper version will go on sale at Amazon.com. For the next month we’ll be posting more brief excerpts from all the chapters in the book. To learn more, visit our book page. Today’s excerpt is by [...]

by Mary Joyce The transparency/open gov people talk about data a lot (video below is just one example). Partially as a result, they seem to have figured out some good methodologies for making data about diverse political phenomena comparable and useful.  They realize that good policy decisions often require good data analysis. Yet these data [...]

Our book, Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, is now available for download.  Please check out our book page for more details. The hard copy version of the book will go on sale on 30 June through Amazon, where you can now pre-order a copy.