When she went to Nairobi, nonprofit tech guru Beth Kanter brought along some of her favorite books to donate to the iHub community library, including The Networked Nonprofit, Charlene Li’s Open Leadership,  Jennifer Aaker’s DragonFly Effect, Carol Cone’s Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding and the Meta-Activism Project’s Digital Activism Decoded.   Thanks Beth, we couldn’t ask for a [...]

Video of the Digital Activism Decoded book launch and discussion last week, featuring authors Brannon Cullum, Dave Karpf, Mary Joyce, and Dan Schultz.  Thanks to Not An Alternative for hosting the event and making the video.

Video of last week’s panel discussion at the New America Foundation

This week’s New York Times magazine features an article on ROFLCon, the conference of Internet awesomeness founded by Tim Hwang, “a clean-cut 23-year-old go-getter from New Jersey,” pictured at left.  You have read about Tim before on this blog because he wrote a chapter in Digital Activism Decoded entitled “Digital Changes Activism: The Web Ecology [...]

Last night’s panel at the New America Foundation in Washington went really well.  The panel was an excellent mix of perspectives from the executive and legislative arms of the federal government with on-the-ground experience Skyped in from Kenya.    The video of the event is available online if you missed the original. Next week there will [...]

Now that Digital Activism Decoded is officially on sale, we are proud to announce our first book-related event, which will occur next Thursday the 15th at 5:30pm at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC. The event will critique the current stalemate in digital activism discourse and discuss ways to move the field forward. From [...]

We’re happy to announce that our book, Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, is available on Amazon.com.  We’ve been giving you chapter excerpts for two months, and we hope you’ve enjoyed them. Now it’s time to enjoy the full content!

A theory of change for how digital activism could change the global politics of power.

Challenging advocacy groups to use the networking features of the Internet not only to connect with allied organizations and supporters but also to the corporate and political “targets” whose behavior they wish to change

Reframing digital activism more humbly as simply a “practical prosthetic” on pre-digital campaigning practices.