Quick thought: when advocates, fundraisers and organizers talk about the “ladder of engagment”, we usually speak in terms of “moving people up.” I.e., we’re getting our supporters to take higher-value actions over time...
Hi folks, busy times! In the last six weeks, I’ve done somewhere between 15 and 20 trainings, panels, presentations, webinars and podcasts, which is one reason these pages have been tragically empty lately. But I’ll make it up to you:...
This post first appeared on the InterAction blog. Do you want to succeed at online advocacy? Of course you do! Fortunately, thousands of us have been toiling away in this field for years. In the process, we’ve done just about everything wrong...
Earlier this month, the National Democratic Institute rolled out a great set of online tools for political activists around the world. They designed this comprehensive update to their open-source Dem Tools package with organizers in the developing...
Yesterday we got good advice from Brett Schenker about keeping our emails out of spam filters, and today Jerimee Richir follows up with some tips to boost your email performance that may seem counter-intuitive to some. Jerimee is a “community...
New Epolitics.com contributor Annabelle Baskin is Campaign Coordinator at Picture Motion and served as a field organizer on Senator Mary Landrieu’s 2014 reelection campaign. This article first appeared on the Picture Motion site. Seeing Beyond...
Congratulations to our friends at the Campaign Workshop! Today they issued their second ebook, this one a top-to-bottom guide to conducting advocacy campaigns: Advocacy is all about creating the right message, getting it to the right targets, and...
New Epolitics.com contributor Michael Khoo (of Spitfire Strategies) looks at online activism around Net Neutrality and teases out some valuable lessons about clicktivism…and the ability of Big Data to complicate online campaigners’ lives...
Revamping an online advocacy operation can be a major undertaking, but most of us can still benefit from a few minutes spent thinking about the basics. In that vein, below are ten things you can do today that should help you get the most out of...
What are the big developments to watch in online advocacy? That question is very much on my mind: Monday I’ll have the privilege of leading a digital strategy training for public affairs professionals, and I’ve been pulling slides...