The fall, 07 Stanford Social Innovation Review features a great article by Heather McCleod Grant and Leslie Crutchfield on “Creating High-Impact Nonprofits.” I had an immediate affinity to the article because the “six practices” they recommend have a strong affinity to both an activist philosophy and to the strategic use of technology. The latter may be the more controversial of the two points since the authors barely mention technology.  

Who’s not following the presidential nomination campaigns, at least a little bit? It’s been here, it’s happening, a year early, as much because of what’s on line as what’s happening on the ground. We got a taste of these new things in 2004, but this year, all the campaigns have embraced myspace-style social networking, come to terms with youtube, and grasped the importance of blogging. And at the center of each campaign, we see large scale online organizing and community building web sites.