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Ameritocracy has launched a new Questions feature that is being used to create an interactive debate-watching experience for its users. The debate questions posed by the moderator will be posted as they are asked. The candidates’ answers are then posted, and Ameritocracy users will be able to see these statements in isolation just seconds after [...]
26 Sep
Posted by Kevin Bondelli as Online Tools, Youth Vote
Twitter has caught on to the mainstream and a number of Republicans are using it to attack young voters. Here is a small selection that has popped up through a search of the words “youth vote.” gnj46 – If Youth of the nation vote for Obama, that shows your they have small minds Seriously, check [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
31 Jul
Posted by Kevin Bondelli as Chapter Tips, Online Organizing, Online Tools
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 [...]
24 Jul
Posted by Kevin Bondelli as Online Organizing, Online Tools
If I had a dollar for every time I heard an organization talk about wanting to create their own social network I could buy a couple shares of Google. While you may be looking at my.barackobama.com and thinking “hmm, we could build our own social network like that,” guess what? You can’t. At Netroots Nation, [...]
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 [...]
Flowgram – Flowgram is a screen-casting tool that lets you walk people through the use of a website, comment on items online, or a number of other applications with audio and text commentary. SlideRocket – SlideRocket is an online presentation application that allows you to create rich presentations with a lot of features, effects and [...]


