Here’s a new video for you on the four essentials of effective campaign fundraising – comments welcome, of course:

“Think For Yourself” would have been an apt subtitle for Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not A Gadget, my pick for non-fiction book of the year and the most important piece of writing on technology and communications to be published in 2010. Instead, Lanier and his publishers went with “A Manifesto” and it certainly is all [...]

It’s been two years since my book CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World (Wiley) was published, and it’s been a fascinating time. Much of what I wrote about in CauseWired has taken root in online society – activism and fundraising using social media tools is now considered central to many organizations’ missions and [...]

A week from today I’ll be speaking to a group of terrific nonprofit leaders in New Haven, CT as part of a day-long program entitled Social Media & Fundraising: Leveraging the Power of New Media For Your Nonprofit. It’s part lecture, part seminar, part workshop and I’m pleased to be once again with my friends [...]

Some news on the publishing front – my book will be coming out in paperback in December. And voila, the designers at Wiley have come up with a sock-o new cover design to go with it! You can pre-order the paperback at Amazon.

Corey Pudhorodsky has been producing the excellent 501c3cast, which deals with a wide range of issues in philanthropy and nonprofit management, since 2005 – and this week, I was honored to be his special guest on the 107th in this eminently NPR-worthy program. You can listen via the player below, but be sure to click [...]

Note: Many readers here have followed the progress of my book and reporting on online social activism over the past year. You’ve probably noticed that the blog has evolved into a company over the past few weeks. Here’s the story behind that, cross-posted from my personal blog: Each of the last two years, I’ve found [...]

OK, here’s my quickie CauseWired vlog – with a bit about the book and some of the bigger themes. The content won’t surprise (or particularly enlighten) anyone who follows this sector, but it’s a bit of an experiment in answering a lot of the broader questions I get asked by journalists and nonprofit folks. And [...]

We’re closing out our program to provide free advance/review copies to bloggers – so get your requests in asap for a copy of CauseWired. Thanks to my friends at Wiley, the program to get as many review copies of CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World into the hands of bloggers as we can [...]

Today is the appropriately-named Blog Action Day, an effort to unite thousands of bloggers behind a single issue and create some momentum for policy change and citizen involvement. With partners like Kiva and Change.org the effort is decidedly CauseWired; this year’s focus is on poverty and the idea is to create a vast conversation with [...]

Thought I’d pass along a bit of great news on the book front. Jean Case, the co-founder and CEP of the Case Foundation, has contributed an insightful foreward to CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World. Jean is quoted elsewhere in the book, and she’s one of major foundation leaders who really understands the [...]

I’ve been thinking about this since the Republican convention a month ago: isn’t the CauseWired movement the virtual empowerment of thousands – and potentially millions – of community organizers, that class of do-gooders so derided by the GOP nominees in Minneapolis? Sure, I know their derision was about knocking down a portion of Barack Obama’s [...]

A quick note of thanks to Steve MacLaughlin and his Connections blog over at Blackbaud for posting (a very positive) first-ever review of CauseWired. You never know what the reaction’s going to be after months of writing, so it’s gratifying to read an in-depth review of the book that covers so many bases (millennials, politics, [...]

Review copies are here! And thanks to my friends at Wiley, we’re launching a program to get as many review copies of CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World into the hands of bloggers as we can before publication. If you’re interested in writing about CauseWired – and it covers online social activism across [...]

Well, the cover art is ready for CauseWired and I thought I’d share it with you. I’ll admit it, seeing a real cover design makes the book itself something of a reality. And yeah, you can pre-order CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World from Amazon right now – yeah, you.