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The DIA Election Pool
In view of the desperate shortage of election-related talk in the blogosphere, the crack team at DemocracyInAction is pleased to offer to our modest readership the DIA Election Pool. Test your forecasting mettle against fellow progpolinptech peeps and DIA users with absolutely nothing on the line.
No political expertise or interest needed to play. You need not be a DIA user.
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03:48 PM Nov 07, 2006 -
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DIA QuickTips
Check out the latest DIA QuickTip: Using Social Networking Websites (pdf)
In fact, collect them all.
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11:30 AM Nov 02, 2006 -
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Talk About Us Behind Our Backs
The complex of discussion lists, web forums and what-not devoted to chattering about issues of nonprofit tech
nology has grown to a mid-sized anthill.
And needless to say, those of us who peddle wares hither and yon make it our business to keep an eye on them, and the fact of our respective eyeballs' conspicuous presence, ever alert to poach one another's customers or stanch negative vibes before the discussion really gets going ... well, I like to think we contribute something to the conversation, but it's also a factor closing off that important space for nonprofits to speak freely among themselves.
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11:00 AM Nov 01, 2006 -
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Electoral College
Nonprofit tech is great, but something about elections -- prodigious treasuries, definite deadlines, winner-take-all stakes, tens of thousands of contests (with seemingly limitless external meddlers) to serve as laboratories -- concentrates inklings into forward lurches.
With the last week of desperate ad-buying, get-out-the-voting, suppress-the-voting, October-surprising, poll-circulating, bobblehead-gabbing, white-knuckle-clenching, Internet-flaming upon us, herewith a Cliff's notes of the cycle's noteworthy tech trends.
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01:30 PM Oct 31, 2006 -
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E-xemplar: Send an E-Newsletter to a Friend
Engender Health, a fantastic DIA client doing work on worldwide reproductive health access (a key indicator of gender equality from Maine to Myanmar), jury-rigged this nifty use of tools to make a "send a complimentary copy of our e-newsletter to your friend" page.
The page prompts visitors to enter their friends' name and e-mail. It's actually just a sign-up page (though the page doesn't opt friends into Engender's e-mail list) associated with a trigger, which trigger happens to contain the most recent e-newsletter content. It does require a manual update of the trigger content with each new e-newsletter, but it's a nifty instance of the user appropriating existing functionality to create what amounts to a new tool in the system.
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03:00 PM Oct 30, 2006 -
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