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Something to Sing About

 Tangible results. Hmmmm, how sweet you are. Proof that organizations do make change in their communities, presented to you in bite size pieces. -Due in part of the efforts of DIA community members NCADP and North Carolina Coalition for a Moratorium, North Carolina just imposed a death penalty moratorium. What's a moratorium? A two-year suspension of executions. Death penalty trials and appeals will not be suspended. People can still be sentenced to death. Says Jason, “It's huge for a southern state to do that. NC would be the current odds-on for the first southern state to abolish down the road.” Still a long battle to be won, but great progress nonetheless.  

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12:07 PM Feb 05, 2007 - 0 comments permalink

E-xemplar: YouTube-DIA Campaign Mashup

 On the DIA Support listserv, a question about integrating YouTube with DemocracyInAction pages yielded this nifty Oceana action page with a YouTube embed. Nice pairing. Cameron explains the trick to making sure YouTube plays nicely with DIA:
When embedding YouTube in DIA, the thing to look out for is the WYSIWYG ["What You See Is What You Get" -- the word processor-like HTML editor used in e-mail blasts and on some user-facing pages. -ed.] editor. It has a tendency to mangle code, so I would suggest disabling it when adding the HTML provided by YouTube.
 

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02:56 PM Feb 01, 2007 - 1 comments permalink

When Good Organizations Do Bad Things

 Back during World War II, the Soviets agitated increasingly impatiently for Roosevelt and Churchill to invade Europe in order to draw German military resources out of the eastern theater. What they got, at least until 1944 when the Red Army had pretty decisively turned the tide, was a lot of material aid via the Lend-Lease program ... to the point where Russians sarcastically referred to the Selected & Processed American Meats in circulation as "the second front." One of the nice things about working with nonprofits is that they're rarely of a mind to open a second front. But every once in a while ...  

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11:24 AM Feb 01, 2007 - 0 comments permalink

Tuesday Tips: When to Ask for Donations, Part 3 -- Time of Year

 Tuesday Tips was a little too sick to get this out Tuesday, but as with a fundraising ask, better late than never. After the first two entries in this series took a more ground-level look at donation patterns appropriate for organizations considering exactly when to release an upcoming appeal, this issue zooms back to a bird's eye view of the seasonal rhythm of donations for organizations scheduling the year's principal pitches. To begin with, I've taken a daily count of donations to all organizations in the DIA universe*, divided by the number of supporters belonging to organizations using our donations services for each day during the year.  

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03:26 PM Jan 31, 2007 - 11 comments permalink

Enlarging Our User Base

 Welcome to some new activists joining DIA in the last 24 hours as splog-bots discover our trial account signup page. New Organization created:2010:viagra_online New Organization created:2009:cheap_viagra New Organization created:2008:discount_viagra New Organization created:2007:order_viagra New Organization created:2006:cheap_viagra New Organization created:1992:buy_viagra New Organization created:1991:discount_viagra New Organization created:1990:discount_viagra New Organization created:1989:generic_viagra New Organization created:1988:discount_viagra  

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11:14 PM Jan 29, 2007 - 0 comments permalink

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