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PowerBase Questions & Preguntas 6-12-2013
Open session to get your questions about running PowerBase answered in Spanish or English. Support Contract required Have a question about PowerBase that merits a conversation? Join us on the phone to get your PowerBase questions answered. The first half is in English and the second in Spanish. PowerBase Questions & Preguntas lasts one hour starting at the following time: 1PM Pacific | 2PM Mountain | 3PM Central | 4PM Eastern Questions & Preguntas is only available for organizations with support contracts. ¿Tiene alguna pregunta...
read moreIs “Pictivism” Effective?
Those of us organizing on Facebook and Twitter sometimes ask followers to change their profile picture to advocate a cause. One recent example was when marriage equality activists had supporters change their profile pics to red equal signs. But does this kind of “pictivism” actually create political momentum? According to Charles Bentley, founder and editor of Armchair Advocates, the answer is a somewhat unsatisfying “maybe”. Here’s why: Why it works: Tweets come and go (in fact over 70% of tweets go unread), but...
read moreLatest Pew Study on Civic Engagement
Always a font of intriguing insight, the Pew Internet and American Life Project recently released the results of its yearly survey about civic life and the Internet. According to TechPresident, “buried beneath the survey’s top-line results are some surprising, and still statistically significant, results — things that tell us about the role of the Internet in politics that we did not already know.” Here are the highlghts: 1. Younger people are more engaged than senior citizens. Pew found that 79 percent of Americans aged...
read morePB Demo 8-7-2013
See what PowerBase can do for your organization. Register here. This is a free event for those interested in learning more about the database tool for community organizers, PowerBase. PowerBase is a web-based platform and is accessible by multiple people in multiple sites at the same time. PowerBase does all this: Manage organizing campaigns in the same way organizers do their work Track member involvement and leadership development over time Track relationships with allies, volunteers, donors, media, etc. Accept and track online...
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