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Q4 contributions will be due soon for FY 2006 writeoffs. But don't back-date that check before taking Amrit Chadwallah's pop quiz.

If you scored under 70%, your wealth will escheat to Rooster Foundation: Crowing in the New American Century, where it will be used to lighten the burdens of Freedom. You and your and your children can start life over from the Dumpster, to prove your mettle, and rise by your own efforts unaided.

High stakes, comrades.

 

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02:00 PM Oct 30, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Congressional Email and the Myth of the Platonic Grove

With Capitol Hill a ghost town as members scramble to retain their peerages, the lull in legislative activity offers welcome pause to step back from the e-mail deliverability fracas of recent weeks.

A great many of the unmet expectations and bad feelings that have become bundled up in online write-your-rep actions ultimately trace to the unspoken assumptions various parties have about the communicative framework in which the action takes place.

That point was underscored in the live chat with Washington Post reporter Jeffrey Birnbaum the day his column ran Capitol Advantage's deliverability study. In response to a question about how to differentiate grassroots campaigns from astroturf, Birnbaum opined, "I'm afraid if an interest group incites a flood of e-mails, that's Astroturf lobbying by definition."

 

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06:00 PM Oct 26, 2006 - 1 comments permalink

Online Politics 101: An Invaluable Reference

The other day, I mentioned in passing Colin Delany's Online Politics 101 (.pdf). And ere it age too much -- at one month old, it's already nearing midlife crisis in blog years -- I wanted to return to it.

In many ways, writing an online politicking guide feels like a fool's errand. Read a few from two or three years ago and see how well they've aged. As Delany himself allows, "techniques that worked brilliantly six months ago might yield eyeball-melting failure today."

 

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06:00 PM Oct 23, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Open Your API to Me

DIA's Nick Ballenger joins a motley assortment of vendors in what NTEN is perhaps melodramatically billing as The Great Open API Debate.

Have an opinion on the state of APIs – application programming interfaces – or just want to know what the heck all the discussion is about? Then join us this Friday for a live debate between the major players in nonprofit software and find out what’s going on with APIs and what it means for nonprofits.

 

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10:00 AM Oct 19, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Joomla-DIA Integration Imminent

... or so says the PICnet blog, which promises such hotness as:

  • allowing users to login and edit their DIA profile directly within Joomla
  • enabling members to be able to search a member’s only directory stored in the DIA database, all within Joomla and without any wrappers
  • adding new supporters in DIA database using Joomla, without needing to do so through the DIA headquarters
  • allowing users to login to Joomla and view all their past donations and events attended that are stored in DIA

 

 

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02:00 PM Oct 17, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

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