Andrew Mason, founder of The Point, explains why he thinks the Internet is bound (with The Point's help) to fundamentally change the way individuals interact with organizations.

Lola Elfman, Senior Organizer at the New Organizing Institute, talks about how her organization is teaching non-profits across the US how to leverage technology to organize themselves, raise awareness, raise money, and save the world.

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The folks at NOI (New Organizing Institute) wanted me to let you know about their upcoming Nonprofit Online Organizing, Technology and Campaign Training happening February 6-8 in San Francisco.

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Last night at the BlogHer holiday party I met Jeremy Pepper, author of the POP! PR Jots blog, and Director of Communications for The Point, "a social platform for people to solve problems they can't solve alone."

We did our Idealist.org startup meeting on Sunday. People asked me how I thought it went, and I couldn’t really tell, since I was bouncing around so much. But going by the feedback that’s trickling in, I guess it went okay. And now for the hard part: how do we keep this new community going?

I found Britt's interview with Rosalyn Lemieux to be truly informative, and so submitted it to NewsTrust. If y’all could go over there and rate the story, I think it will be good for Britt & Netsquared. (I don’t work for Net2 or anything, but this community’s been very good to me – and Britt’s extraordinary – so if there’s anything we can do to raise their profiles, I think we should try to help). Never heard of NewsTrust? I posted about it here.

The New Organizing Institute (NOI), is a grassroots program that trains young, technology-enabled political organizers to work for progressive campaigns and organizations. I interviewed Rosalyn Lemieux, NOI's Executive Director, for the NetSquared Podcast about how organizers can use the social web for their work. You can read a transcript of the interview below.

Rosalyn Lemieux: My name is Rosalyn Lemieux. I am the Executive Director of the New Organizing Institute. NOI is a training and research institute, and it was formed by the Internet strategy gurus of the big '04 campaigns -- Dean, Kerry and Clark, as well as MoveOn, the DNC, ACT, the AFL-CIO. The origins of NOI are that those folks I just mentioned, those Internet gurus, got together in the summer of '05 basically to look at what had their experience had been in '04, when they had these terrific campaign successes online, what had happened in the field since then, and how could they help the progressive movement, applying the lessons that they had learned in leveraging technology and the Internet for progressive organizing.