Salsa Scoop
Live Wire
Fresh from the oven this week:
DemocracyInAction.com (the for-profit company using the DemocracyInAction toolset for campaigns and political organizations, as opposed to the separate nonprofit-serving entity DemocracyInAction.org) has merged with the CGL Group strategy consultants to form Wired For Change.
Paper-shuffling aside, the union promises integration of the tools with the strategic expertise to deploy them, making W4C a one-stop shop for progressive organizing, online and off.
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11:30 PM Aug 22, 2006 -
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Society Page: Alan Rosenblatt Helms Moving Ideas
Alan Rosenblatt, as nonprofit-savvy as he is whip-smart, has assumed the editor's desk at Moving Ideas, where he's writing a daily policy blog. He's already head of the Internet Advocacy Center, and writes the Dr. Digipol blog about digital-age politics.
Moving Ideas is still working through chrysalis after nearly going under around the beginning of the year, but the progressive-activist-hub function it aspires to is still an important one, and it has a substantial NGO network. We're excited enough to see where Alan takes this thing to pass along his call to share job postings, event announcements, offers for guest blogging and discussion hosting, and anything else that would be of network to a nationwide network of nonprofit activists.
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04:00 PM Aug 22, 2006 -
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Myspace--Tentative Best Practices
Lately, it seems Myspace.com is becoming integrated into many a nonprofit organization's marketing plan. Well, why not? It's free, and you have the opportunity to reach millions of youngsters and not so youngsters at the same time. With a little effort, your organization's Myspace profile can effectively help grow your list and increase visibility within the progressive community. Here, I've compiled some best practices that have emerged so far.
- Have a sign up box for your newsletter right on your profile.
- Include organizational info, but in a casual tone. You don't have to SpEEk lik Da kIdz, but keep it light.
- Using one of the profile generators to create custom colors and design for your page shows that you know what you're doing. It's really a matter of cutting and pasting some pre-generated html, and you can do that!
- Your top 8 ( or 12, or 16) shows your organizational allies. Here's where you display your "best buds", issue wise. It gives individuals visiting your profile a good feel of what you're all about. If you're a member-driven organization, just have individuals as top 8.
- Don't overdo the bulletins. If you have something important to say, direct people to your Myspace blog.
- "Thanks for the add" is important. It shows appreciation and allows you to get more visibility on other people's profile pages.
- Don't add just anyone; numbers are great but keep your organization's integrity in check.
- Myspace groups are a great way to align yourself with like minded individuals. They're not a place to spam about your issue, but casual participation in groups will build rapport.
- Branding-it's not beneath you. Use your organization's logo as your main picture. You can add fun pictures of a rally you attended and staff members to the rest of your picture area
Oh yeah, add us.
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12:00 PM Aug 21, 2006 -
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Liveblogging a Coup d'Etat
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01:30 PM Aug 19, 2006 -
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Affordable Webinar Tools
Either by accident or some inscrutable will of the cosmos, three different parties in the last month or so have come knocking for insight into web meeting tools. Since we run regular webinars, we traffic this space a bit -- and while I'd hardly characterize any of us here as experts in the field of online meeting software, it's not inconceivable that the evaluation of tools we've had to do might be useful to others.
If you're looking for web meeting/screencasting/live presentation software that's more affordable than the name-brands like WebEx, there are some pretty good options available, with an open source project in the pipes. DemocracyInAction uses ASAP by Convoq, which costs $500 a year but has unlimited meetings, and very rarely have poor feedback on it from clients: meeting participants just need a recent version of Flash. A few months ago, we re-upped for a second year.
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07:30 PM Aug 16, 2006 -
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