Posted on May 15, 2008 by 40brown
Have you emailed your congressional representative? Did you feel like it did any good?
Congressional offices are receiving hundreds of millions of emails every year, and the workload on staffers is enormous! As the number of emails has increased over the years, the staff size and technology budgets have not.
The Center for American Progress will be [...]
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Posted on April 22, 2008 by 40brown
There’s been a lot of buzz about using maps in advocacy, and its been something I’ve been meaning to explore further. I knew about the use of maps to see that damage done in Darfur (you can track as village go missing, and as communities are destroyed in Zimbabwe). And as neat as these were, [...]
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Posted on March 24, 2008 by 40brown
What do Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama and Oscar Morales of northern Colombia have in common?
They all use FaceBook (with varying success) to call people to action. But Morales has had far greater success than either of the Democratic candidates.
Earlier this year, Morales created the FaceBook group, One Million Voices Against the FARC and used [...]
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