Important Projects to Help Plan dotOrganize Project

December 14, 2005

I'm very happy to report that Important Projects has been selected by ScoutSeven to help develop the project plan for dotOrganize, a collaborative software development and strategic support project that plans to provide social change groups with a robust and affordable online organizing and database management platform. I'll be working with Leda Dederich on this one, another amazing person I met at Web of Change this year, along with a whole host of other people doing interesting work and who I'm excited to meet.

The project will be governed by four core principles, as follows:

• Social change technology projects must be driven by user needs, not glitzy new tools or enthusiastic vendors
• Interoperability between tools is the key to a successful platform; data silos are killing our productivity, and the one-size-fits-all solution is a fantasy
• Collaboration within the social change and tech provider communities is crucial to get the buy-in necessary for successful deployment
• Tools without implementation support and solid strategies are doomed to fail

Again, I'm very excited to be working with you on this, Leda! I'll post more on the project here as things progress :)