We're proud to announce RingTones08.com - the first site where people can create and share ringtones about the 2008 election. Ringtones can reflect any political persuasion and be about candidates, issues, "get out the vote"... Anything you desire as long as it in some remote way references the big 08. So, have some fun this summer. Flip a burger, down a beer and roll your own ringtone at RingTones08.com.

Hey Everyone: Check out [the new CitizenSpeak case study](http://citizenspeak.org/node/1039 "CitizenSpeak Campaign Goes Viral on MySpace Creating New Wave of Young Supporters"). It's about a CitizenSpeak campaign waged by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles against the now infamous anti-immigration legislation HR4437. Some young staffers posted a link to the CitizenSpeak campaign on their MySpace pages and created a new wave of young supporters for the organizaiton. The case study is posted above under case studies (where else?)

If you've ever thought about going to a technology conference for nonprofits, this is the conference that you shouldn't miss. It's called the National Technology Conference and it's organized by NTEN.org (don't know what the acronym stands.) I totally recommend going if you can muster up the airfare. NTEN has always been a great membership organization for IT professionals in the nonprofit sector. Now it's run by Katrin Verclas who gets better than anyone I know how to help nonprofits talk to and learn from one another's IT experiences.

Thanks to Erica Sargrans for her great article, "The new armies of the 'net - Can pop technology ramp up public interest in politics?" It's an extremely well researched article that provides a great overview of the past, present and future of net politics. We're thrilled that CitizenSpeak is part of it. To read this article, please visit http://thephoenix.com/Article.aspx?id=32823&page=1

And thanks to Frank Mullin for taking a great picture of me, quite a coup since I am not what you'd call photogenic.

Check out this great blog post by Micah Sifry, co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum, to find out how to inform local political bloggers about your causes: http://www.personaldemocracy.com/node/1140
Enjoy!

This week's WSJ onlne column, "Recommended Reading" inludes a selection of resources, Web sites, books and online tools for leveraging technology for social change. CitizenSpeak is the second item on the list. Whoo hoo!!!! Who knew that the Wall Street Journal cared about social change?

The Providence Business News also ran an article on CitizenSpeak in this week's edition. Thanks Natalie Myers for writing such a great article!