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Momentum by Allison H. Fine
Advance Praise
"Momentum is a bold, engaging volume with Fine's unique and insightful approach to using 21st-century tools to organize and connect people. This easy-to-read guide offers fresh faces, new voices and cool tools for building strong, effective, and enduring social change networks."
--Diana Aviv, President and CEO, Independent Sector
"Momentum is a clear, timely roadmap for activists and funders. Never has the need to change how we think about our work been greater. Momentum is a must-read for doers and funders serious about social change work."
--Pablo Eisenberg, Senior Fellow, Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University
"Those of us engaged in social change work know that change is coming fast, but changing how we work is happening slowly. We need to work differently and better, and Fine shows us how in fun and inspiring ways. If you are an activist, a funder, a volunteer, or a board member, or just plain care about your community and democracy, Momentum is the book for you!"
--Paul Shoemaker, Director, Social Venture Partners, Seattle
"Momentum provides donors with a clear understanding of how to succeed in the new Connected Age. What felt like a blur of digital tools to me before now makes good sense, thanks to Fine's lively lexicon and funny stories. I've been waiting for a book like this, and here it is at last!"
--Michael Hirschhorn, President, Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation |
How can we move from serving soup until our elbows ache to solving chronic social ills like hunger or homelessness? How can we break the disastrous cycle of low expectations that leads to chronic social failures?
The answers to these questions lie within a new book by Allison H. Fine called MOMENTUM: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age, a fresh, zestful way of thinking about and organizing social change work. Today's digital tools--including but not limited to e-mail, the Web, cell phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), even iPods--promote interactivity and connectedness. But as MOMENTUM shows, these new social media tools are important not for their wizardry but because they connect us to one another in inexpensive, accessible, and massively scalable ways.
Listen to Allison Fine and Micah Sifry, Executive Editor of the Personal Democracy Forum, discussing her latest book, Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age.
If you don't have iTunes or a recent version of QuickTime, you may download an MP3 version of the podcast here or listen
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