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No one reads every single word of an advocacy email, but when first reading that, I was able to get the gist immediately: There's this thing called the Wall.

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«In 2016, renewables received about 100 times more in federal subsidies than nuclear plants,» Michael Shellenberger, founder of the Berkeley, California - based, pro-nuclear advocacy group Environmental Progress, wrote in an email to Grist.

But one of the lawyers involved, Johnathan Smith of the legal advocacy and educational organization Muslim Advocates, told me in an email that he believes the U.S. agency has jurisdiction to ensure that foreign air carriers comply with U.S. laws.

When I worked for a politician I was responsible for deleting all of the mass - emails sent by nonprofit advocacy groups.

Example: Members of the European Parliament voted to block an unsubstantiated claim about an ingredient added to formula following our email campaign and advocacy — but the European Commission ignored them.

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As for the broad applicability, we're seeing it every day in the nonprofit world, as plenty of groups are learning to use their supporter lists for more than overnight fundraising and email advocacy — some are finding ways and providing tools to turn supporters into evangelists in whatever communities they're a part of (whether local or not).

In the meantime, plenty of us are using email all the time to spread nasty rumors, raise money and maybe even do a little advocacy.

With local officials from school board on up now hearing from internet - organized constituents, and with cadres of veteran Obama volunteer commandos dug in across the country post-election, we may see an explosion of email, online video, social networking outreach and all of the other tools of electronic advocacy in the coming months — but this time turned on the projects in the stimulus bill, not on electing a candidate.

Besides noting that predicting the death of email is a sure - fire way to get media attention (particularly if you're a company that might stand to benefit from such a development), I'll just close with a cautionary tale for would - be futurists — if I remember correctly, online guru Seth Godin predicted the death of email advocacy within five years at the GetActive user conference... in 2005.

Your site should feature prominent links to your social media channels, for instance, and it should also connect in an easy and straightforward fashion with the signup form for your email advocacy / Constituent Relations Management system, as we'll discuss in more detail in the list - building section of the chapter on email as a political tool.

The Obama campaign's email strategy, and like so much else the campaign did online, built on the experience of previous political campaigns and nonprofit advocacy groups, relying on incremental improvements over past practice.

I'm talking about sending mass email of course, which is the single scariest act in the world of digital communications, advocacy and politics.

But earlier this year, several of the e-advocacy consulting firms and service providers released a joint study of the use of email for advocacy, communications and fundraising by nonprofit organizations.

The email lists of a thousand different advocacy organizations?

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The latest evidence comes in a quick email from Convio, one of the online advocacy providers: Please be advised that the House of Representatives is currently imposing limits on inbound communications from constituents because volumes are so high that Congressional...

MySpace can definitely be used for recruitment and as a mass communications tool, particularly if you're trying to reach younger voters who have moved away from the casual use of email, but most advice I've seen about using social network sites for political advocacy stresses the importance of moving MySpace friends onto normal advocacy lists as soon as possible.

The guide begins with an introduction to the internet as a medium for political change and eight simple rules to get you started, and then moves on to cover topics as varied as political websites, online fundraising, internet video, social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter, email advocacy, viral marketing, online advertising and the subtle art of search engine optimization.

Felkel said that as advocacy groups have enthusiastically embraced technologies like email, they've lost sight of the personal touch and real - life relationships that makes for successful lobbying.

He also provides more - detailed training sessions on best practices in the use of particular applications such as social media, social networking, blogs, online video and email advocacy.

Earlier in the week, we saw how Charles Lenchner is using the document hosting / distribution site Posterus to help track MoveOn.org emails, and already we get to check out another cool advocacy - related way to put the site to use, in this case by Josh Levy (formerly of tPrez) and the folks at Free...

Completing the email activism trifecta of the last couple of days, Julia Rosen writes in with a brutal critique of a recent series of advocacy / fundraising messages sent to the old Phil Angelides list, which his campaign built while being crushed by Ah - nold in California this past Fall.

The email from Forward NY — a collection of labor groups and advocacy organizations opposed to Spitzer's candidacy — criticizes Spitzer for not participating in the public financing system in New York City and «jetting around» to various talk shows on cable and network TV.

And I'd argue as usual that a single online action like this one is usually going to function best if it's just one piece of an overall blitz including emails, letters, phone calls, Tweets, blogger outreach and (as this group wisely knew to do) personal meetings with the advocacy target.

The email advocacy frenzy continues apace — hot on the heels of yesterday's Post article, techPresident announces that it's started collecting campaign emails via Michael Whitney's Politikr application, letting us get a consistent look at how often the presidential candidates are messaging their lists and what they're sending, information that's more useful than, say, how many MySpace friends someone has.

Earlier in the week, we saw how Charles Lenchner is using the document hosting / distribution site Posterus to help track MoveOn.org emails, and already we get to check out another cool advocacy - related way to put the site to use, in this case by Josh Levy (formerly of tPrez) and the folks at Free Press:

Last week, I sent an innocent messsage out to the Progressive Exchange email list, asking folks to send along examples of good advocacy sites to help with a presentation I was finishing.

Commonly, tabs might feature different issues and actions, and many of the email - advocacy vendors now offer the ability to incorporate action alerts into tabs.

Likewise, posting an advocacy action such as a «send an email to Congress» message to a Facebook page usually yields some results, but generally with a much lower action - rate than you'd expect from an email list of equivalent size.

The latest evidence comes in a quick email from Convio, one of the online advocacy providers:

Candidates have used blogads for fundraising, advocacy groups to build their email lists, authors and publishers to promote books, and campaigns of all stripes to publicize their positions and to help launch viral campaigns.

Wikipedia and a slew of other sites may have shut down today to protest SOPA, but that's not the only big story in the online advocacy space this week: yesterday Blackbaud announced that the company would be buying Convio, a leading provider of email advocacy and online fundraising for...

In practice, a fundraising appeal or advocacy action sent via email tends to have a response rate 10, 20 or 30 times higher than the same action promoted to the same number of people via Twitter.

Advocacy is different: without the urgency of a campaign, supporters are likely to tolerate fewer emails, and they may respond to those messages at a much lower rate than they did when the White House was on the line.

Email advocacy and fundraising systems are really just specialized examples of CRM (customer / constituent / contact management) software, while blogs and website content management systems are database - driven, as are online ad serving systems.

The results in terms of supporters gained, funds raised or advocacy actions taken are at times astonishing, but in many other cases they're not — they're often no more than comparable with those gained from email list - building and other forms of online outreach, and are frequently worse.

Delany can provide in - depth analyses of clients» existing online advocacy campaigns, email marketing, online fundraising, websites and social media channels, followed by recommendations for improvements and future steps.

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Stepping back from the email precipice for a minute (that Cap Ad study has been stirring up some BIG waves in the online advocacy world), ealier this year the Bivings Report conducted a study of how campaigns for U.S. Senate were using the internet that's worth checking out.

Spam blockers are our enemies, for one thing, since they have the potential to cripple email advocacy (the spambot at one of my old day jobs sometimes caught our OWN advocacy messages, reminiscent of the early B1 bombers jamming their own radar).

For an advocacy or fundraising email, particularly the first to a given population, the unsubscribe rate often exceeds one - quarter or one - half of one percent of the list; I'm curious what the equivalent rate for a txt campaign is going to be.

Part of the problem is us: advocacy groups have gotten very good at flooding Congress with messages from their own constituents, typically via email but also by phone and by social media channels like Twitter and Facebook.

We'll discuss some secrets for effective email advocacy below, but for now keep in mind Two Golden Rules of email organizing: if you're contacting Congress or another representative body, you generally should only let people contact their own legislators through your system (rather than spamming all of Congress).

Things were different a few years ago, when email advocacy was relatively new, but unless they've been stingy with their email addresses, activists these days are buried under a slew of messages every week.

Balancing message frequency and coming up with relevant content are already critical parts of email list management, and I think they'll be even more so for SMS advocacy lists.

But more than a dozen advocacy organizations — including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, New York Civil Liberties Union and Sunlight Foundation, as well as New York - based good government groups — sent a letter to the governor late last month, arguing his policy was technologically unnecessary and out of step with the federal government, which saves emails from rank - and - file employees for seven years.

It's just that along the way, a few new tools came along like online databases, services for mass emailing and online advocacy, donation and membership software, field organizing and walk list software, online voter databases, mapping tools, phone apps, the blogosphere and the rise of crowd sourcing.

The trouble with «Big Email,» the kind of online advocacy Move.On pioneered, is that even as the Internet makes it easier for us to «find each other,» it makes it harder for us to «bind with each other,» writes Sifry, in «common focus.»