Campaigns and E-tools
Clay Shirky (posting at Many-2-Many) and Jon Stahl point to a post from Desigining for Civil Society regarding Dan Bashaw and Mike Gifford ’s article for Democracies Online Newswire (big shoutout to fellow minnesotan and internet pioneer Steven Clift) titled Top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism.
(pardon me while I catch my breath from all that trackbacking/linking)
(one more minute)
Ok. Anyway, you can read the top 10+ for yourself, but the whole time I was reading I couldn’t stop thinking about the depth of discussion that is clearly going on in the NGOsphere (newly minted term from jon stahl) and how little of that discussion is really going on in the CampaignSphere (newly minted term from me).
I suspect that will change as soon as the caucuses/primaries wind down and more local and other federal races get going. I wonder if their should be an online non-partisan conference this summer? As if any of us political ‘net developers have time…