Welcome! Our first weeklong training for online organizers is coming up in a couple weeks -- Feb. 24 to Mar. 3, in Washington DC.

I'm blown away by the quality of trainees we've got coming -- really surpassing all our expectations. We received more than 700 applications and could only take 40 because that's all our funding would allow. So many amazing people applied that this entering class could easily have been twice as big.

It's also been overwhelming too see so many people -- from both inside and outside of the online organizer community -- volunteer to put so much time into making this first training a success. Dozens of trainers have taken hours of busy work schedules to prepare brilliant sessions. Several vendors and consultants are donating their platforms and their staff's time. Susan Markham and Mary Hodge at Campaign Corps have been performing organizational and logistical miracles on a daily basis, teaching us how this kind of training is supposed to be done. Sujata Tejwani, who's a million trainings, is doing her best to keep us on schedule (despite enormous resistance on my part!) and making sure we end up with a high-quality professional curriculum. And Judith Freeman, has made this her second job.

Meanwhile, a lot of campaigns and orgs have been calling, asking how they can get a graduate of the program to be their Internet director or staffer. Well, we're going to have a job fair on the last day of the training, Friday, March 3 from 2:00 to 6:00 pm. Email us at info@neworganizing.com if someone from your org or campaign would like to come by.