:Title:    Using Social Networks for Constituency-Building
:Author:   Haney Armstrong
:Date:     Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:16:17 PST
:URL:      http://www.ned.com/group/community-general/news/83/

Ivan Boothe blogs about the Genocide Intervention Network uses seven social networks "to form the first anti-genocide constituency, and to empower our members with the tools to prevent and stop genocide."

`Organizing Rather than Mobilizing: Using Social Networks for Constituency-Building`_

 *What it all comes down to is that we're focusing on organizing people into a permanent anti-genocide movement (and much of that happens in a decentralized, self-organized sort of way) rather than simply mobilizing people for a particular event or campaign and then sending them home. If you just need bodies at a rally, names on a petition or donations in your coffers, mobilizing through traditional means will work great. But if you need an active, educated and effective movement, organizing through social webs has the potential to create much more lasting change.*

.. _`Organizing Rather than Mobilizing: Using Social Networks for Constituency-Building` : http://quixoticlife.net/journal/2007/10/11/organizing-rather-mobilizing-using-social-networks-constituency-building