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Do You Know What They Know About You?

This post by Seana Mulcahy alerts us to a complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission by the Center for Digital Democracy and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. They complain that website owners are using powerful tools for user tracking and behavioral targeting to capture and exploit too much data on their visitors, without […]

Learn More November 13, 2006

Nabuur to Neighbor to Neighbour

One of the great movement entrepreneurs of the past 15 years is a Dutchman little known outside his home territory of the Netherlands and in global wildlife conservation circles. His name is Siegfried Woldhek (he's the guy on the right in the photo to the left above) and he's pioneering a new way of volunteer […]

Learn More November 12, 2006

Excellent Customer/Donor Service = Loyalty

Too many businesses and nonprofits alike treat customer service as a backwater. They give the function low priority, few resources, and no serious thought as to its potential brand enhancing — or destroying — impact. Here's an example of how to do it right, directly from our experience at The Agitator as a customer. We […]

Learn More November 11, 2006

Fishing With The Right Gear

Campus Progress, youth-oriented arm of the Center for American Progress, has been running a multi-media campaign dealing with the burden of student debt. The campaign involves online video ads running on the Washington Post and Slate.com sites (and viewable on YouTube), as well as on theater screens in eight cities, video banners on .edu-targeted sites, […]

Learn More November 10, 2006

Who Deserves The Credit?

We at The Agitator consider ourselves determinedly independent when it comes to politics, so we won't weep if a few progressive Republicans were elected here and there across America yesterday (though we're hard pressed to think of any … maybe Arnold). That said, we can live with the Dems winning control of the House, and […]

Learn More November 8, 2006

Still Waiting for the Revolution

Today, as voters go to the polls and we await the returns of the mid-term elections, others are already hard at work strategizing, politickin' and prognosticating about the forthcoming 2008 presidential campaigns. Yesterday's release of the Pew Research Center's study tited “The Internet and Politics: No Revolution, Yet” is great food spiced with a a […]

Learn More November 7, 2006