Hint: most often, it’s not by cell phone. M&R Strategic Services updated their mobile benchmarks report today, and the results are interesting in a couple of areas. First, the rate of growth of nonprofit mobile acquisition has slowed...
More from CampaignTech: on the same panel in which Peter Greenberger talked about instant rapid response, Vox Global’s David Payne discussed integrating your influence channels when you’re trying to reach decision-makers. For instance...
Breaking news as I write this: in the face of a massive backlash, the Susan G. Komen Foundation has reversed its decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood. What happened? Komen ran into the power of citizen-activism, for one thing. Did the...
Howdy folks, on Saturday I sat down with NationBuilder’s Chief Organizer Adriel Hampton (via Skype) to talk about, well, a lot! We started with a focus on the SOPA protests and Chris Dodd’s new education on the power of internet...
Hi folks, here’s a quick reminder: RadCampaign’s Allyson Kapin, Jeanette Russell and I will be having our “Advocacy Rising” discussion today at 4 pm at SalsaLabs. Here are the details, and I hope you can make it! Note that...
Also published on HuffingtonPost Here’s an angle that just occurred to me about today’s widespread online protests against the “Stop Online Piracy Act”: normally we talk about digital activism being HOSTED on the internet...
As part of their Advocacy Rising program, the good folks at SalsaLabs asked me to contribute the piece below, which first appeared on Salsa Commons. One thing I left out — nonprofits have to be careful what they say in an election year if they...
Guest article! Brian Cook is with the Human Rights Campaign, which works on marriage equality and other equal rights issues for the LGBT community. He recently put the Google Grants guide below out on the Progressive Exchange and was kind enough to...
Hi y’all, your editor was a bit under the weather a week or two back and almost let three good stories slip through the cracks. Never fear — they’re brought back from the dead below, appropriately enough on the night before...
Here’s a cool resource and the product of a collaboration between the folks at Rad Campaign and Craig Newmark (as in, Craigslist Craig) — it’s an infographic illustrating data about how leading nonprofit organizations use social...