The Dean Campaign continues to apply some of the best examples of network-centric distributed organizing implemented to date. I really like the format and step-by step nature of the tools. We have seen this with the Million Mom March, United for PEace and Justice. River Network developed a paper version around the Clean Water Act. Clean Water Network had things like this around the Safe Drinking Water Act. However, internet tools and Internet users have come such a long way.
Similar online organizing tools are needed for all future campaigns. This isn't hard. It is a few step by-step guides with links. I would like to see a "add a comment" feature on the bottom of each page so participants could add tips and tricks and create dialogue. In fact I bet it would be a piece of cake to set up an "Organizing Guide" category in Blog, then create the six pages of training, links to key files and a very cool add a comment feature on each page.
The novelty is that the campaign is really working to get out of the way. It assumes you are smart and that you will try to help without running each action through HQ. I would assume they are loosing some folks because people would be screwing up the message and brand but they make up for it in volume.
