Can a single email raise a million dollars? Can it save a life?

With a simple email request -- buy a $10 bed net, save a life -- the Nothing But Nets campaign has galvanized popular, business, entertainment and media support for the fight to prevent malaria infections worldwide.

The campaign has come a long way since Rick Reilly wrote his 2006 Sports Illustrated column about malaria. To date, it has raised more than $25 million, delivered over 2.5 million bed nets -- and shows no signs of slowing down.

Join the PdF Network on Thursday, December 3 to hear from Shannon Raybold, Special Projects Director, UN Foundation, about how to turn a simple request for help into a successful online strategy.

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A $10 Challenge Turns into $25 Million: The "Nothing But Nets" Case Study
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Dec 17 | Learning from the Obama Campaign About the Future of Mobile Politicking | Scott Goodstein, CEO, Revolution Messaging

Time for some editorial housekeeping. In our never-ending quest to cover how technology is changing politics and serve the growing community of activists, technologists, journalists, politicians, government workers, bloggers and plain old citizens who are engaged in making this change happen, we are pleased to announce two new additions to our editorial crew. Dave Witzel and Allison Fine are coming on board Personal Democracy Forum as senior editors who will help expand our coverage on PersonalDemocracy.com of how mass, networked participation in the public arena is affecting all the important arenas outside of electoral campaigns (which we cover obsessively at techPresident).

Do you know which sector is the tenth largest biggest business sector in the country as measured by its revenue and number of employees? It’s the nonprofit sector, a sprawling, incongruous group of causes, agencies, universities and hospitals linked together mainly by the tax code that gives them all exempt status. And until now, it would have seemed implausible that nonprofits and presidential politics would go hand-in hand.

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A month ago my friend Ken Banks of