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Best Political Videos

Political videos are proliferating these days. The election cycle of course plays a part, but we're just seeing the very leading edge of what will become a huge form of citizen expression on sites like YouTube and the myriad clones set up by major portals like Yahoo, Google, AOL and, yes, even Al Gore's CurrentTV. […]

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Numbers To Note

Here are some important numbers that have crossed our laptops in the past few days. First, politics and cyberspace. Through our research umbilical cord, the folks at Pew Internet Project, comes the news that on a typical day in August 2006, 26 million Americans turned to the internet for news or information about politics and […]

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Branson To Bush: Eat My Exhaust!

President Bush's team proudly announces $3 billion a year in technology subsidies to fight global warming. At least he's beginning to act faintly like a believer that global warming is real … forcing even farther into political Siberia Neanderthals like Senator Inhofe. The Bush Administration's timing was most likely intended to steal the thunder from […]

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Human Rights Campaign Has The Virus … Award

This time, the Human Rights Campaign and Donordigital deserve the raise. The Human Rights Campaign just received “Most innovative viral list growth campaign” at GetActive's Third Annual User Conference, GetTogether 2006, for its “Boot the Bigot” online game and petition. This promotion was designed to raise awareness around the mid-term elections and turn out pro-equality […]

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Toolkit For Nonprofits

The biggest nonprofits have plenty of resources to surround themselves with consultants, vendors and agencies to help them pursue their missions. For everyone else, there's the terrific ever-expanding toolkit offered by Joanne Fritz, “Guide” for the nonprofit domain of About.com. The organizing theme of About.com is practical advice, and Joanne as About's expert Guide provides […]

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Great Gig At WWF

Great job opening for a cause marketer … World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the global conservation organization, seeks a Director of Donor Marketing to lead overall strategy and development of marketing programs that drive fundraising; provide direction, oversight and implementation of marketing communication to multiple audiences; manage development marketing/volunteer engagement vehicle, and special events. A minimum […]

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