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I Know The Winner

The winner of the 2008 U.S. Presidential election is known to me. For the sum of one American dollar in cash, I will reveal the name to you. If the person I name does not win, your dollar will be returned within 72 hours and you will never hear from me again. Tom Belford Read […]

Learn More October 2, 2007

Dogfighting Stirs Fundraising Inquiry

On September 10, The Agitator posted Seizing the Moment to Raise Money, dealing with the fundraising of animal welfare organizations around the Vick dogfighting abomination. The post included an analysis of the online fundraising efforts of animal welfare organizations prepared by Adam Church, an intern at Craver, Mathews, Smith & Company. The analysis gave kudos […]

Learn More October 1, 2007

Update: Verizon Hits Redial … Damn!

The only thing we like less than a company that screws up big time, is one that has the sense to reverse course before their roof caves in! Just as we were licking our chops, relishing the spectacle of a few hundred thousand cell phone customers canceling their Verizon Wireless service to protest the idiotic […]

Learn More September 30, 2007

Cell Phone Users, Unite!

In his recent piece in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Peter Manzo urged issue advocates to make better use of cell phones as a tool for citizen engagement. (He also took the US telecommunications biz to task for lagging behind the rest of the world in providing state of the art services.) He concluded: “To […]

Learn More September 28, 2007

Low Budget Online Video

The other day we urged our readers to dive into online video, and pointed out that big budgets weren't required. We've received some useful comments on that post from Humane Society of the U.S. and from See3 Communications, which I urge you to read. But here in its entirety is a mini-case study sent by […]

Learn More September 27, 2007

P.S. Update on Today’s Post

When we went to press at 1:00 A.M. EST this morning (each day's Agitator is posted at that time) we expressed concern that with the situation in Burma about to explode none of the major human rights groups had anything current on their websites. Within hours the void was filled by Amnesty International US with […]

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