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dotOrganize Comes Alive!

I spent a good part of the last year incubating a project called dotOrganize.

Our goal: empower organizers with the online tools, processes and strategic guidance they need to support their work.

I started the project because I got tired of seeing group after group struggle with the exact same needs. I wanted to start addressing some of our sector-wide tech woes, once and for all, so organizers have more energy for the good stuff — their missions, their campaigns, their communities.

dotOrganize’s first major project was a massive due diligence effort to thoroughly document the state of online technology in the social change sector. I firmly believe you can’t solve a problem without understanding it inside and out, so we spent 9 months interviewing people, crunching survey statistics, and trying to tell the story.

The result is Online Technology for Social Change: From Struggle to Strategy.

The report compiles insights from more than 400 social change groups, technology providers, and nonprofit technology capacity builders. Giving voice to organizers, many of whom are really struggling to use online tools effectively (or at all), the report tells it like it is, and then offers recommendations for filling gaps in strategy, software development, and tool adoption.

In addition to the fancy PDF, we put the entire thing online to make for easy reading, but more imporantly, so you could add your thoughts. Please do.

And spread the word…

http://www.dotorganize.net/report