“Make it easy for your supporters to use the power of their voice to advocate for change.  Connect your supporters directly to their legislators via phone - actions stored in Salsa.”

—Click2Call Jalapeno

With the advent of Salsa Market, third-party developers are creating evermore exciting ways of enhancing Salsa to extend your online organizing reach. We've already featured a couple of those tools in this space, like the Change.org "sponsored petition" tool. As the Market develops in the months ahead, you can expect to see plenty more. But we're pretty excited to see others picking up on this, too ... like this fantastic blog post from Josh Cohen about New Signature's Click2Call tool.

Dozens of organizations have been looking for this kind of feature, enabling you to send email blasts that auto-generate district-targeted constituent phone calls to lawmakers. In Josh's words:

By using this tool, your email blasts go from this:

Contact your senator today to ask them to vote for DADT Repeal To contact your senator, please call the Senate switchboard at 202.224.3121, tell them your state, and ask to speak to your senator

to this instead:

Contact your senator today to ask them to vote for DADT Repeal. To get started, click:

With the Salsa platform, the system can figure out your supporter’s legislator so when they click the dial buttons, it will call the right place.  Once they click this button, they will be taken to a screen where they are asked for relevant information.

How hot is that?

There's lots more at the post, including detailed step-by-step instructions to install and use Jalapeno Click2Call.

You can add Click2Call to your toolbox, or just find out more about it, at the Salsa Market.

More about Josh Cohen:

Josh Cohen runs Split Atom, a Salsa 3rd-Party Developer who works with LGBT candidates and ballot initiatives.   He is currently working with working with the Laurie Jinkins campaign who, if elected, would be the first lesbian member in the Washington State House of Representatives. He was the technical lead for the Approve Referendum (approve71.org) campaign which successfully defended Domestic Partership rights in Washington State from a repeal.  He’s also assisting Equal Rights Washington with their migration to Salsa. You can reach him at

More about New Signature Professional Services Division:

New Signature professional services division combines strategic thinking, distinctive design, and emerging technologies to create and deliver innovative websites that consistently break new ground. They are Salsa experts in: Salsa CSS; SalsaScript; Custom Donation Forms; Salsa API; Custom Package Development; Integration with WordPress/Drupal; Synchronization with Databases; and Salsa Management and Support. Visit their website at http://www.c2cjalapeno.com/