It's Your World, So Change It

It's time to get past the hype about Online activism, get down to work, and make real change happen. It starts right now with this 100% practical, start-to-finish handbook! Long-time activist and Online community expert Tom Head covers all you need to know to make change through Online grassroots organizing via social networking such as, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, text messaging, blogs, RSS, email, and a whole lot more. He draws on years of experience to show you what works---and, just as important, what doesn't. Whatever your cause, your politics, or your experience, this book can help you make a powerful impact---locally, nationally, globally!

Tom Head is author or coauthor of 24 books, including Civil Liberties: A Beginner's Guide and Get Your IT Degree and Get Ahead. He covers civil liberties for About.com and the Mississippi Human Rights Report. Head serves as an elected member of the Mississippi ACLU's board of trustees, as vice-president for policy and legislation of the Mississippi chapter of NOW, as communications director for Unity Mississippi, and on the steering committee of the Jackson, MS chapter of Parents, Friends, and Families of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). He has operated online communities since 1989.

Tom Head is author or coauthor of 24 nonfiction books on a wide range of topics, includingCivil Liberties: A Beginner’s Guide (Oneworld, 2009) and Get Your IT Degree and Get Ahead(Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2000). He covers civil liberties for About.com, a division of The New York Times Company with 34 million unique visitors per month, and also blogs on civil liberties issues in his home state of Mississippi via the Mississippi Human Rights Report.He also serves as an elected trustee for the Mississippi ACLU, as VP/policy of the Mississippi chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), as communications director for Unity Mississippi, on the steering committee of the Jackson,Mississippi, chapter of Parents, Friends, and Families of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), and in various other volunteer capacities.He has operated online communities since 1989. An internationally recognized expert on distance education (and coauthor of four books on the subject),Tom is currently finishing up his Ph.D. in the history of ideas at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, through an off-campus study program.