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This is a list of resources I put together for my colleagues in public affairs before I left Planned Parenthood. I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep it up to date, so I might as well publish it now before it's all stale!
Resources
- Elements of a good online communications plan
blogs.onenw.org/jon/index.php?p=624 - GetActive - Online Resource Center
www.getactive.com/pdf/white-papers/download.html - Advokit
open source, social networking campaign tool
www.advokit.net - TechAtlas - NP tech planning survey
techatlas.org - Free Management Library for For-Profit and Nonprofit Organizations
www.managementhelp.org
Network-centric advocacy:
- Pushing Power to the Edges
a state-of-the-field report on online citizen engagement
evolvefoundation.org - The Movement as Network
www.movementasnetwork.org - Network-Centric Advocacy
Blog by Marty Kearns
www.network-centricadvocacy.net - The Wisdom of Networks
book on mass decision-making by New Yorker writer James Surowieki
thewisdomofnetworks.com - Rand Corporation
report on network-centric warfare
www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382 - SmartMobs
blog on how mobile technology is changing society
smartmobs.com - Network-Centric Thinking: The Internet's Challenge to Ego-Centric
Institutions
journal.planetwork.net/ article.php?lab=miller0704 - Top Ten Rules for the Movement in the Age of Connectivity
www.omidyar.net/group/networkcentricadvocacy/news/17/ - Applying network models to political organizing
civilities.net/NetworkModel
NPtech around the web
A great way to find new resources!
- Blog posts tagged NPTECH
technorati.com/tag/nptech - Links tagged NPTECH
del.icio.us/tag/nptech - Photos tagged NPTECH
www.flickr.com/photos/tags/nptech/
Blogs, blogging tools
- Blogging 101
www.unc.edu/~zuiker/blogging101 - BlogHer Con
a conference for and about women bloggers on 7/30/05
www.blogher.org - Blogging: Public Affairs Next Frontier
article by Ken Deutsch
www.getactive.com/news__events/ga-today-archives/expert-december-2004-idi.html - List of Nonprofit Blogs
www.omidyar.net/group/compumentor/ws/nonprofit_blogs - Blog search engine
www.technorati.com - Geographic blog listing
www.feedmap.net
(state names give poor results) - Blog aggregator tool
www.bloglines.com
Pro-choice blogs
- Now What
by PPFA's Director of Government Relations
saveROE.com/blog - Truth Be Told
by PPFA's interim president Karen Pearl
www.plannedparenthood.org/pp2/portal/files/portal/webzine/insidepp/blog-ppfa.xml - Bush v. Choice
by NARAL Pro-Choice America
bushvchoice.blogs.com/ - PP affiliate lobby day blogs
www.ppaction.org/ppmanagers/lobbydayideas
Examples, tools, & general cool stuff
- Open encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org - Free community photo sharing tool
flickr.com - Images of resistance
collection of protest photos including the March for Women's Lives 4/25/04
www.imagesofresistance.org - Americans apologize for George Bush
www.sorryeverybody.com