One nice thing about going to conferences like the Personal Democracy Forum is that you learn about organizations doing interesting work that you may not have heard about before.  This was the case for me with the New Organizing Insitute (NOI).  NOI trains progressive activists in online organizing tactics and they just completed one of their “Campaign Bootcamp” sessions.  The progressive movement has had an edge in the use of the internet in political organizing in recent years, and groups like NOI make progressive dominance online more likely in the future.  I am not aware of a conservative counterpart to NOI, but if anyone knows of it (or them), please let me know.