Nor does his site offer supporters a way to self-organize, the way My.

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She installed community chalkboards in the Diepsloot neighborhood in Johannesburg, South Africa, that gave people a medium to self-organize and share information.

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Social media have enabled protesters to self-organize, and have engaged the global youth in the fight to be able to freely express themselves and the aspirations of their wider communities.

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Sometimes these are solo efforts, but often civic coders collaborate, either online through resources like GitHub or in person at events called "hackathons" where coders self-organize into teams and compete to build software over the course of a day or a weekend.

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What if the Lean In community or any group of feminist-minded women were to organize around the cause of single motherhood instead of the cause of their own self-congratulation?

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