Ellen S. Miller is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Sunlight Foundation, a Washington-based, nonprofit catalyst that is using new technology to open up Congress. In just two years, Sunlight has created more than two dozen Web sites, databases, distributed research projects, tools and widgets to make information about Congress’ activities more accessible through the Internet.

Miller is also a NetSquared Advocate.

Vincent Stehle is the Program Officer for the Nonprofit Sector Initiative of the Surdna Foundation.  He is a NetSquared Advocate and was recently awarded the NTEN Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2008 Nonprofit Technology Conference.

You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog.

Ben Rigby is the Founder and Co-executive Director of Mobile Voter.  He is also the author, with Rock the Vote, of a new book coming out in April called Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth.

You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog.

Eric Mattson is the co-author of a recent study, Blogging for the Hearts of Donors, about social media usage by the 200 largest charities in the US.

For more information about Eric's work, check out his web site at ericmattson.com.

You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog.

Heather Cronk is the US Outreach Officer for PledgeBank, a site that allows users to set up pledges and encourage other people to sign up to them.

Ami Dar is the founder and executive director of Action Without Borders, the organization that maintains Idealist.org. Launched in 1996, Idealist is one of the most popular nonprofit resources on the Web, with information posted by 65,000 organizations around the world, and over 50,000 visitors every day. Ami was born in Jerusalem, grew up in Peru and Mexico, and worked as a waiter, translator, and marketing manager at a software company before starting Action Without Borders.

In the last four years the Nonprofit Times included Ami in its annual list of the 50 most influential people in the nonprofit sector, and in 2004 Ashoka invited him to join its global fellowship of social entrepreneurs.

You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog.

Arnold Chandler is a Program Associate at PolicyLink where he conducts policy data analysis and research studies into the innovative application of information technology and data to community building, advocacy, neighborhood change and revitalization, and regional development.  His research focuses on economic and community development in America's older core cities; the digital divide and public policy; supporting technology innovation in the nonprofit sector; electronic advocacy; and the use of geographic information systems (GIS) for policy change.  Chandler has a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and a M.S. in Telecom Policy and Information Systems.

You can read a transcript of the interview on the NetSquared blog.

Gregg Swanson is the Executive Director of HumaniNet, a nonprofit that provides assistance in ICT (information and communications technologies) to the humanitarian community. 

A former Air Force officer and fighter pilot, Gregg served for 20 years in line and staff positions with Air Force headquarters, NATO forces, and operational units in Asia and Europe.  He has held executive and management positions in several Silicon Valley companies, largely in operations and international programs. A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, he has studied in Germany as an Olmsted Scholar and has graduate degrees in international affairs from the American University and in business from Stanford University.  Before founding HumaniNet in 2002, Gregg was Director of Technology at Northwest Medical Teams in Portland, Oregon.

You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared blog.

Teresa Crawford is a strategic technology consultant based in Washington DC.  She has been working in the field of NGOs and technology since 1998. Over the last few years she has worked in 30 countries with organizations both large and small to help them make better use of information and information technology in their work.

You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared blog.

ChipIn's mission is to make it easy to collect money.  In today's how we talk with Carnet Williams, ChipIn's CEO, about how nonprofits can use the ChipIn widget to raise money for their cause.

Previously, Carnet was the Director of Clean Trade at The Nature Conservancy, the Executive Director at HiBEAM, the Director of Academic Technology at Stanford University, the Associate Dean of Information Technology at Stanford Law School, the Director of Business Development at TurboLinux, the Founder and Executive Director at NetCorps, and the Founder and CEO of Tactics.com.

You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared blog.

The New Organizing Institute (NOI), is a grassroots program that trains young, technology-enabled political organizers to work for progressive campaigns and organizations.  We interviewed Rosalyn Lemieux, NOI's Executive Director, about how organizers can use the social web for their work.

Prior to coming to NOI, Rosalyn Lemieux worked for MoveOn.org Political Action in various capacities including staff trainer, online organizer, and volunteer program manager. Prior to joining MoveOn, Rosalyn operated a small independent consulting business, conducting online campaigns for progressive candidates and causes. She got her start in online organizing while serving as the Feminist Majority Foundation's web team director from 1999-2003.

You can read a transcript of this interview on the Net2 blog.

WorldChanging is a solutions-based journalism nonprofit that looks for the best available solutions to the world's most pressing problems.  They have a blog, WorldChanging.com and a book, WorldChanging:  A User's Guide for the 21st Century.  We talk with WorldChanging's Executive Editor, Alex Steffen about how he thinks the social web can be used for social change.

You can read a transcript of this interview on the Net2 blog.

Allison Fine has been a successful nonprofit entrepreneur at local and national levels for more than 15 years successfully starting new organizations, raising funds, building organizational collaborations and helping to lead a sea of change in the way that nonprofit organizations organize themselves and successfully engage their communities in social change efforts.

In 1992 Allison started a national nonprofit, Innovation Network, Inc. (InnoNet), dedicated to teaching and expanding the use of participatory methods for ongoing learning and improvement by activist organizations. If you are interested in planning and evaluation tools, information and connecting with others wrestling with these issues, go to www.innonet.org.

In 2004, Allison became the C.E.O. of the E-Volve Foundation. E-Volve provides seed grants for online democracy and activism efforts. More recently she has focused on writing and public speaking focused on increasing civic participation by harnessing the power of digital technology.

Visit Allison's website or contact her at: afine@demos.org

You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared blog.

This bio. was taken from the Momentum web site

Leda Dederich is a technology strategist who has been managing online campaigns and Web sites for the nonprofit and political sector since 1995.
In 2005 she founded dotOrganize, a project that provides research, forums, and resources to assist organizers in utilizing online tools as vehicles for their vision.

During the interview, Leda discusses a new report released by dotOrganize in September 2006: Online Technology for Social Change: From Struggle to Strategy.  You can read the report online or download a PDF here.

A transcript of the interview is available on the NetSquared blog.