Mobile Active, a global network of organizations and individuals using mobile phones for activism and civic engagement, announced today the release of the MobileActive Strategy Guide - the first in a series investigating the use of mobiles in civil society. The guide is designed to equip organizations around the world with the know-how to deploy effective mobile campaigns for a variety of types of activism and advocacy. Other guides in the series will focus on issue advocacy, fundraising, humanitarian and disaster relief, and mobile organizing.

I'd like to highly recommend a new book out called "Momentum - Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age." Written by Alison Fine, founder of InnoNet, and with a forward by Joan Blades, co-founder of MoveOn, this book is a great tool for any organizer interested in developing a Web 2.0 communications strategy to get their voices heard. I'm proud to announce that the book includes a case study that I wrote about how the Schuylkill River used CitizenSpeak to take on a multinational railroad company. For those of you who have read the book - this group eventually won over this company.

There's a great ope/ed in the New York Times today by Adam Cohen, called "Could a 15-Year-Old With a Laptop Be the New Campaign Media Guru?" about the Yealy Kos - the first annual convention for the Daily Kos blogosphere. The article talks about the importance of blogs in the shaping and dissemination of political news and messaging, the popularization of political advertising, and the 2004 proven effectiveness of netroots fundraising.

CitizenSpeak was just named the Hot Site of the Week for PolitcsOnline. For those who don't know this organization, you should. It's great. They have by far and away the best weekly newsletter about online politics. It's informative, well written and a quick read. What more could you ask for.

Check out the "hot site" blurb at http://www.politicsonline.com/content/main/hotsite/hotsite_display.asp?i...

The Social Source Foundation announced that they have integrated CiviCRM with the open source CivicSpace/Drupal CitizenSpeak module. CiviCRM is a FANTASTIC constituent relationship management solution designed specically for nonprofits. This is great news for downloaders of the CitizenSpeak open source module (not those who are using this hosted service but those that want to build their own e-advocacy services on their own server.) With this integration, data(participant details) entered in citizenspeak module can be accessed using civicrm.

Hi Everyone: Due to a massive server crash, CitizenSpeak was down over the weekend and for most of Monday but I'm glad to say that it's back. I'm so sorry to all of those whose campaigns were disrupted. Please email me if you have any questions or need to vent. I really am so sorry!!!!! Thanks for your patience, Jo Lee