MoveOn

MoveOn.org is a left-wing political group based in the United States that organizes and informs an online community estimated at more than three million people. The group aims to promote grassroots advocacy by its members through various political activities including running a PAC, voter registration drives, and political advertising (especially in swing states).

Personnel

• Joan Blades
• Wes Boyd
• Carrie Olson, Chief Operating Officer
• Eli Pariser, Executive Director
• Zack Exley, who previously created the website, was the Director of Special Projects for the MoveOn PAC. During the Democratic primary for the 2004 presidential election, Exley worked as a web consultant for the Howard Dean campaign. According to Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi, he hired Exley because he admired MoveOn's ability to organize activists over the web. http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote_June20.html In March 2004, Exley became the director of online communications and organization for John Kerry's presidential campaign.
• Patrick Michael Kane of We Also Walk Dogs, Inc. has worked as MoveOn's System Architect, designing, building and managing MoveOn's web and mailing infrastructure. According to Wes Boyd, We Also Walk Dogs "solves our mass mailing, web database, and security problems in shockingly short timeframes. Without them, our campaigns would be impossible."