Proposed Charter for the Greater Boston Chapter of the Massachusetts Young Democrats Publish at Scribd or explore others: Law & Government Business & Law governance democrats Kevin Gilnack from the Massachusetts Young Democrats is using Scribd to share and get feedback on the proposed charter for the Greater Boston Young Democrats. I have been a [...]

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Cross-posted on Future Majority. Following the success of Obama for America’s low-dollar fundraising effort many organizations are looking to replicate the strategy for their own campaigns. This post will look at some strategies you can use based on a current fundraising campaign I am working on: the Young Democrats Working for America raising money for [...]

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I have turned my four-post Developing a Traditional Media Strategy series into an e-book, so feel free to download and share it. Developing a Traditional Media Strategy Publish at Scribd or explore others: How-To Guides & DIY media communications

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2008 was a banner year for Young Democrats across the country. We now have a number of elected officials that were victorious because of young voters. Our success this year gives us a tremendous opportunity for fundraising in 2009. Do you have a prominent elected official in your state where young voters were the margin [...]

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The online advertising campaigns from both the Obama and McCain camps have raised awareness of paid search advertising. Search advertising works by selecting keywords that will cause your ad to appear. A lot of campaigns and organizations fail to take advantage of the full potential of paid search advertising by not expanding upon their keywords [...]

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This post is a simple tutorial that should give you a good grasp on the basics of creating a Sprout widget using Sproutbuilder. First thing, of course, is creating an account with Sproutbuilder. It’s free and a great addition to your arsenal of online tools. Once you have an account, you can launch the builder [...]

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Sometimes you need to be able to manipulate images but can’t afford to drop a few hundred bucks on Photoshop. It’s important to resize your photos for a couple of reasons. First, when you HTML resize on a website the quality of the image at the lower size is diminished and it increases load times [...]

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It’s that time when local campaigns are starting to get active, organizations are recruiting and carrying out campaign plans, and people are coming up with ways to improve their campaigns. This is a list of 34 resource/tutorial/tips on campaigns I have written in the last year, all in one place. 1. Creating Pre-Populated Twitter Links [...]

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The Let Our Congress Tweet site uses an interesting method to get their supporters to use Twitter to spread their message. By clicking a link anyone that has a Twitter account is taken to their update page with the pre-populated text “Congress, change the rules. Talk to us on our social networks. http://LetOurCongressTweet.org Let our [...]

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The idea for this post came from a comment on one of Jeremiah Owyang’s posts by Peter Kim: Let’s take this a step further – companies CAN’T join a conversation – only people can. Unless you decide to have your mascot come to life. This is a concept that a lot of organizations miss when [...]

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