Another Meet the Author session is right around the corner! 

On October 23rd, we'll have the pleasure of hosting Ben Rigby, author of Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize, and Engage Youth for a phone call and online chat. We'll talk about this incredible guide for nonprofits, political campaigns, and other organizers who want to use new media tools effectively. 

> Sign up for Meet the Author: Ben Rigby

Check out what a few folks have been saying about the book: 

Nothing will ever replace the importance of face to face, peer to peer outreach when it comes to engaging any voter. Technology has the opportunity to *enhance* those interactions, and Ben Rigby's important new book gives campaigns around the country the tools they need to deepen relationships through technology. This book is an essential guide in the next wave of political campaigns and youth outreach.

- Ben Unger, Former National Field Director for the PIRGs.

 

If you are a concerned citizen, a nonprofit, an educator, an activist, and you want to know how to connect digital natives to civic life and politics, Ben Rigby's excellent book -- full of real-life examples and step-by-step how-to (and equally important, why-to) instructions -- is a great place to start.

- Howard Rheingold, Author of Smart Mobs

 

Ben Rigby has pulled together the ultimate up-to-date guide to using social media for political organizing. How to blog, why to wiki and when to social network: it's all here.

- Micah Sifry, Co-Founder, Personal Democracy Forum and TechPresident 

> Sign up for Meet the Author: Ben Rigby

(FREE for NTEN Members / $30 for Non-Members.  You will have the chance to buy the book through us as well. At $20, we're cheaper than Amazon!)

We're flush with prizes around here, so you have another chance to win.  Just let us know in comments, below, what you're doing that you would like to better engage youth in.  We'll send a copy of the book to a randomly selected commenter!