Network-centric Parks: 30,000 Advocates Rally in the Connected Age

The online world reflects the onland organizing reality. The best place to find supporters for an issue is to troll social networks. Is this new? Hell NO. Ask any political hack that has a candidate attend a block party, concert, stream clean up or community meeting or funeral (like the old Irish Bosses). Professional trolling of social networks by field organizers is nothing new. However, field organizing is catching up with the reality that these networks are increasingly online.

If you were able to organize at a "event" or organizing table at anyone else's party which would be most effective for your group? Have you trolled the interent looking for those people and trying to engage them in your work?

Parks1 online communications director, Fred Gooltz, taps into communities of New York-based ultimate Frisbee players, sailboat gazers, and cycling enthusiasts, in the hopes of engaging them in parks issues. “Little do they know that parks is an issue that should be of interest to them,” observes Gooltz. Parks1 campaign manager, Justin Krebs, continues that “[Political advocacy] as an outgrowth of a social group"