Digital Tools
Your calendar knows more than you think
Your calendar is a map of your organizing relationships. A guide to shared group calendars, scheduling tools, and the privacy trade-offs that come with each.
Digital Organizing
Strategy and practice for organizers working online. Covers building community, running campaigns, mobilizing people across digital platforms, and using the internet as a space for collective action and movement building.
Digital Organizing
Telling the truth when they control the megaphone
When Venezuela's opposition collected 80% of election tally sheets before the regime could suppress them, they weren't just documenting fraud. They were running a model for narrative infrastructure every movement needs. Here's how to build it.
Digital Organizing
Platform risk and the fediverse: building the infrastructure you can't be locked out of
In December 2025, Meta restricted a Tanzanian activist's Instagram at government order. No hack, no drama -- just a legal process and a compliant platform. The fediverse exists because centralized platforms have owners. Here's what the alternative looks like.
Digital Organizing
The strike card problem: building commitment infrastructure for large-scale action
There's a meaningful difference between signing a petition and stopping work. Only one requires you to risk something. That difference is the organizing gap every strike card campaign is trying to close.
Digital Organizing
Coordinating without a center
Thousands of autonomous local groups, each doing their own thing, aren't a movement — they're a lot of people who agree with each other. Three case studies in what it actually takes to coordinate without a center.
Digital Organizing
From supporter to organizer: building the commitment pipeline
Most organizing groups have supporters. Many have activists. Far fewer have developed the organizer layer that makes a movement self-sustaining. Here's how to build the pipeline — and the digital tools that support each transition.
Digital Organizing
The activation problem: how movements respond at speed
The difference between having a network and being able to move it within 48 hours is the most dangerous gap in the current movement landscape. Minnesota closed that gap — but not by accident.
Digital Organizing
What is digital organizing — and why it's the infrastructure democracy needs right now
Authoritarians exploit the gap between the speed of harm and the speed of organized response. Digital organizing is how democratic movements close that gap — but only if the infrastructure exists before it's needed.
Digital Organizing
The Facebook effect: Why Mastodon feels different — and why it matters for organizers
If you've recently made the move to Mastodon — or if you're thinking about it — you may have noticed something unexpected: you don't know what to say.