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DIA Integrates with Myspace? You bet!

You can create a custom sign up box for your Myspace page so that your new friends can sign up for your list with one click.

Then, your new friends will be automatically entered into your DIA Headquarters into a group you've created just for them. This way, you'll be able to see who's signing up through your Myspace account and easily contact them later.

Here's how to do it:

1. Go to your DIA headquarters and create a new group for your Myspace signups. Be sure to copy the group key, a number found at the end of your URL when viewing your new group. It will look something like this:

https://secure.democracyinaction.org/YOURSHORTNAME/hq/groups.jsp?groups_KEY=47223

So, in this case, you need to copy the 47223. We'll use it later.

2. Go to your Myspace account, and click " Edit profile"
Paste the code below into your " About me" section. Be sure to change all the placeholders with your org key, your Myspace URL, and your group key.

 

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05:00 PM Jul 25, 2006 - 210 comments permalink

E-xemplar: Cutest. Action. Ever.

The DemocracyInAction tool is used by something approaching 400 organizations, including thousands of chapters, who have together deployed tens of thousands of user-facing pages. Nobody has viewed every one of those pages.

However, not the vaguest quease of incaution tempers my confidence that the cutest of all those actions is now occurring on the Friends of the National Zoo website:

Name three Sumatran tiger cubs.*

 

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11:00 AM Jul 22, 2006 - 3 comments permalink

E-xemplar: Cutest. Action. Ever.

The DemocracyInAction tool has been used by something approaching 400 organizations, including thousands of chapters, who have together deployed tens of thousands of user-facing action pages touching our database. No human being has viewed every one of those pages.

However, not the vaguest quease of incaution tempers my confidence that the single most adorable web action in the annals of our application is now occurring on the Friends of the National Zoo website:

 

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11:00 AM Jul 22, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Now Playing on MTV

DIA members IAVA will appear on MTV at 8 pm EST tonight for a special entitled "Iraq Uploaded".

"Iraq Uploaded" will be hosted by Gideon Yago and will explore how the
personal videos and blogs from Troops in Iraq are informing the American
public about the war. It is a powerful and fast-paced show that IAVA
supports fully. "Iraq Uploaded" will highlight unfiltered videos and
military blogs that have been coming straight from Iraq through sites like
www.iava.org.

 

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04:30 PM Jul 21, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Bill Gates Embraces Open-Source Knowledge ... In Philanthropy

Is it too early to start calling Microsoft mogul Bill Gates the modern Rockefeller?

Succeeding a career as a ruthless information-age corporate titan, Gates' bazillionaire foundation is the hottest thing in philanthropy, his glamour enhanced by the affections of Warren Buffett. Now comes word that Gates is going to use the hammer of his capacious pocketbook to force AIDS researchers to share their data the same way he depends upon programmers not to. (Hat tip: Smart Mobs)

 

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04:00 PM Jul 21, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

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