Salsa Scoop

DIA Empowers Grants: Project Katrina...and the Winners Are

 Part of our mission has always been to democratize online advocacy. We want to break down financial barriers and allow groups--even the smallest ones--to be able to access our tools platform, Salsa. The Empowers grant gives full access to Salsa to those groups who need it most. These groups use the tools to customize their user experience while efficiently engaging their supporters. Sending out action alerts, creating dynamic content pages, easily sending emails to representatives, processing online donations, creating reports, and planning events are just the beginning. Once a group received the Empowers grant, they're a part of the DIA community and can share tips, attend trainings and events, and collaborate with the progressive community to make change. For this round, we focused on groups working to better the lives of those affected by Hurricane Katrina.  

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12:48 PM Nov 15, 2007 - 2 comments permalink

Photo of the Week

 This week's photo is from the Flickr pool of DIA buddies New Era Colorado. Join our DIA community group on Flickr--they did!  

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11:56 AM Nov 14, 2007 - 3 comments permalink

Salsa Status Report IX

It's been a while since I've been able to get one of these out. A good number of improvements in this week's Salsa Status Report. More might come as I round up all the changes.

  • BUG: Links in summaryList.jsp are all relative now to prevent linking outside of packages. (medium)
  • BUG: Added deTag around supporter fields in several places to prevent javascript redirects (medium)
  • BUG: Fix for null blob values when running reports (medium)
  • BUG: Fixed a bug in reports when "is empty" was chosen in combination with AND conditions (major)
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    04:09 PM Nov 08, 2007 - 3 comments permalink

    The Wired Fundraiser: Network for Good Surveys People-Powered Giving

     A couple of weeks ago, Network For Good hit the streets with The Wired Fundraiser (pdf), a report on the growing phenomenon of ordinary people raising money for causes and organizations they support ... without said organization's involvement, and sometimes without even its awareness. The key finding?
    When Wired Fundraisers Talk, People Listen: Wired Fundraisers are regular people with a cause and a keyboard, and they are proving highly effective at fundraising for their favorite charity in an ever-widening personal sphere of influence online. That’s because today, the messenger matters even more than the message. People trust messengers they know, like friends and family. These messengers naturally communicate in the most effective ways – through personal means, in a conversational tone, and with great stories. A promotion from a charity can’t compete with that level of intimacy, authority or authenticity.
     

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    02:01 PM Nov 06, 2007 - 4 comments permalink

    Small Accommodations for Technology

     It's a tiny thing, after all. A little callus on the thumb, a little path worn through the garden ... the visible tokens of the concessions we make every day to plug a malleable soul into the life its fleshy prison shambles through. Most of the time, one only notices the smallness of one's niche within the range of human experience in the face of some jarring contrast. I caught myself in a bit of that the other day, and when I stepped back to examine it, it struck me kind of funny. We use a Jabber installation for internal IM, to which I connect along with various other services with Pidgin. My normal m.o., to keep my screen uncluttered, had been to shut down chat windows awaiting a pending response, counting on my correspondent to pop it open when and if they answer and I need to pay attention to it again. Jabber, as one can see, gives one's correspondent a rather brusque message that sort of thing is done. "Left the conversation"! Just imagine excusing yourself from a tiresome party encounter with a line like that. (Don't think I haven't imagined.)  

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    12:57 PM Nov 03, 2007 - 54 comments permalink

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