Flickr Photo: provos @monkeyI read a lot of reports, at least one a week. I don't blog them all because I can't keep up. But every once in a while, a gem will cross my inbox, like Colin Delany's newly updated Online Politics 101.

If you run any kind of campaign -- education, political, or otherwise -- I highly recommend you read Colin's piece. There's nothing revolutionary in the report; it's just good common sense, but that's its strength.

For those of you approaching your first campaign, this is a great way to get grounded before you begin. There's lots of great advice to get you started, without bogging you down in any particular area. In other words, you'll get just enough ideas out of this to be dangerous -- in a good way!

For those of you who have been around this particular block a few times, it's a great way to get back to basics and remind yourself of the key principles that matter.

And, because it's peppered with hilarity throughout, you'll even enjoy yourself. A small sampling of the fantastic writing that awaits you: "...please write like a human being rather than one of our friends and future masters, the robots."

Colin, you and I must share the same fear of all things robot. Have we seen the Terminator movies too often?