a book about facebook organizing
I had this idea a month ago to write a handbook to Facebook organizing. I thought, hey, why not? It could be useful to some folks, plus I have the luxury of unemployment right now. Maybe make this 50 page thing and post it here or get it published, then I'll go land some real writing gigs again.
Anyway, why I'm posting this is because in the course of the writing, I've come up with a lot of ideas to help Lose the Label and launch other projects. I'll be trying some of them out, spending way too much time online, and writing about it a lot. Basically being a mad political scientist, and in the nerdiest ways imaginable. Please mind the crap.
The main things I've been focusing on are how to turn online activism into offline activism, the merits of online action, what groups have been used for vs what they could be used for, how to use messaging, the differences between in-person and online communication. Some of it's speculative, some just summary and history.
I have 2 arguments to air, too. One is that Facebook has revolutionized student organizing by making promotion extremely easy. Second, it argues that social networking technology is something too powerful and too integral to society to be entrusted to a corporation.
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