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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
It's been another busy month at DemocracyInAction - lots of exciting news to share.
Among our new features to enhance your Internet advocacy:
- New & Improved WYSIWYG
- Rotating letters subject & content for campaigns
- Improved petition functionality
- Enhanced campaign reports
- Registration fees tied to events
- Track relationships
- Listserves
- Enhanced congressional scorecard
- Intelligent & manual deduplication
- Realtime AJAX state legislator retrieval and targeting
- PHP Autologin scripts
Coming soon!
- Social Networking & other community tools
- New Chapter Interface
- More member mangement tools
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We welcome the following orgs to the DIA community
Public Citizen
FAIR
OMB Watch
Friends of the Earth
United for Peace and Justice
Witness
Media Matters
Reform Ohio
Now
Tikkun
Shalom Center
Planned Parenthood
Vital Voices
National Lawyers Guild
Operation Truth
Irish Northern Aid
Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Stop Global Warming Campaign
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
No More Victims
Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood
Community Catalyst
Brave New Films
Pacific Environment
DC Primary Care Association
Center for International Environmental Law
US Committee for UNDP
Organic Athlete
Coalition for a Tobacco Free Hawaii
Kush
Peace Action Maine & California |
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Trainings and Events
We now have weekly webinars available.
Join us for "DIA 101", a telephone training/webinar on core toolset
items. Prospective clients, new users and old hands looking for a
refresher all welcome! RSVP to receive call-in information.
DC Group Training Scheduled: July 14th, 2:30pm RSVP here Stay Tuned for our first NYC Training in late July! Nonprofit Networking Happy Hour (and Chris' B-day!): TONIGHT, June 29, 6:00pm
Join DIA, Moving Ideas, OneWorld, CivilRights.org, and IPS for happy hour at the Iron Gate located at 1724 N Street, NW.
Featured Campaigns
Celebrate the 4th of July
CodePink Style! Click
here for some great ideas to add some spark to your 4th of July plans
and bring attention to mistreatment and abuse and to bring justice and
liberty to all.
 WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price
is a new film that takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into
the everyday lives of families struggling to fight goliath.
Help make the film, host a screening, or share your story!
Welcome Chelsea and Natalia!
We are pysched to have two amazingly talented and
hard-working interns this summer. Chelsea Basset (DIA's 2nd
Wisconsinite) is working with many of you to get up and running and to
ensure that your campaigns are successfully implemented. She's also
studying nonprofit development and we hope she's learning a ton from
our quickly growing organization. Natalia Fisher is our web goddess --
creating new a soon to be launched website and enhancing our "Campaign
Headquarters".
Feel free to stop by and visit. If you do, be sure
to bring some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. We like
to keep our interns happy.
New Tool in the Box: Listserves
Campaign managers can now manage e-mail discussion lists from the
DemocracyInAction headquarters! One of the most popular online
activities since the salad days of the Internet, listservs are a great
way to get your constituents talking with one another. Now, they can
be run out of the same database that houses the rest of your supporter
information.
Turn any Group into a listserv (with a multitude of configuration
options) in the Manage Groups section of your headquarters.
We're celebrating by launching a couple listservs of our own that you
might want to sign onto:
DIA Support: dia+support-18088@democracyinaction.org
DIA Features: dia+Features-18213@democracyinaction.org
Technology Innovation Awards
The NPower Greater DC Region Technology Innovation Award honors
nonprofits in the metro Washington, DC area whose innovative use of
technology has helped them improve key aspects of their operations and
more effectively fulfill their missions. Read more here....
Nonprofit E-Advocacy Feeling the Pinch: Groundspring Drops
AdvocacyNow; Meetup Institutes Fees
Two popular services for nonprofit Internet organizing have sprung
nasty spring surprises on their clientele.
Last month, Groundspring.org discontinued (for the time being)
AdvocacyNow, its online campaign service. A few weeks earlier,
Meetup.com ended free meetup planning.
Both features remain core functions in DemocracyInAction's
cost-effective e-advocacy platform. Know someone who might benefit
from DemocracyInAction's services? Tell them about us!
In Memoriam: Marla Ruzicka
Marla Ruzicka, founder of human rights group Campaign For Innocent Victims in Conflict, was killed on April 16 by
a car bomb in Baghdad. Marla was a close friend of DemocracyInAction
both personally and professionally. Her loss is incalculable.
Please donate to CIVIC in Marla's memory.
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