I would love to hear 5/20's in person Salsa Actions and Social Media. Can this be done as a webinar for those of us who can't attend? Thanks!

Tagged: Advocacy

Can we set up a postcard as an advocacy campaign?

Tagged: Advocacy, postcards, Website Features

Is Salsa Commons exceedingly slow for anyone else??????????????  AAAAAAAAAAAH

Besides that, does anyone want to share an example of how you've organized supporters for online advocacy (ie into allies, opponents, etc)?  And general list management tips for organizing your supporters?

Tagged: Advocacy, allies, list management, opponents, Salsa, Supporter Management

Is there a way to bulk delete target recipients by type - for example, all media contacts?

Tagged: Advocacy, target recipients

Designing our first campaign, and I notice in step 3, there's a box for "allow emails" and another for "allow faxes."  We don't want users to send faxes and leaving that unchecked seems clear enough.  

However, we do, obviously, want users to be able to send emails through the form, but when I click the "allow emails" box, Salsa inserts a distracting/pointless "send an email" checkbox at the bottom of the form itself.

This checkbox would only make sense if users had BOTH options.

I guess my question is, do I have to have the "allow emails" check box checked for the form to work?  I'd rather not have the "send an email" checkbox on the form, as it might be confusing for people.

The documentation doesn't cover this at all.

Thanks for any help!

Sam

Tagged: Advocacy, allow email, Campaigns, Salsa, Website Features

Has anyone ever integrated DIA advocacy campaigns with Regulations.gov?   Regulations.gov is the website that allows people to submit comments during public comment periods by the EPA, FCC, USTR, etc.

Back in the day, these agencies used to offer an email address for submitting comments, with made DIA integration.  Now-a-days, you have to use the webforms at Regulations.gov.

I assume the programming for this is similar to writing Members of Congress who only offer webforms.  Is this something somebody has already figured out?

Tagged: Advocacy, Campaigns, Salsa

(I've brought this up before but always inside other threads. So I'm giving it its own thread.)

Is anyone else dreading the day that the old actions module goes away and 2.0 leaves beta and becomes default? Here's why I ask:

Every study in the world that I've read on online advocacy metrics (NTEN, PX, etc) says that number of clicks required for an action drives down action rates. More clicks = less action, right?

I understand that Actions 2.0 gives you this multi-content targeting capability, which is terrific. Thank or spank is much easier, etc. I've seen the features and they're great. More targeted messages, getting to see your legislator, etc.

What is NOT great is that as far as I can tell, there's no way to ever have a one click action again for people using it. Everyone has to enter a zip code and click a button before they can see the rest of the page, meaning that they essentially have to hit 2 "submit" buttons, which will drastically lower response rates on any campaign we set up. Messages will be better targeted, but we'll have fewer recruits, and fewer messages sent.

The idea of targeted multi-content actions is a great idea, but I'm not crazy about the implementation. Seems like the thought of potential negative side effects hasn't been clearly explored.

It would be nice at the very least to have an option in the future to use a single-click page if we're one day going to lose the old actions module. Or a script so that when people tab out of the zip code box, their legislator(s) appear, reducing the need for that first click.

Is anyone else thinking about this? Surely we're not the only ones still using the old actions module faithfully for this reason. Anyone else share this concern?

Tagged: actions, actions 2.0, Advocacy, beta, Website Features

Where can I find the CSS calls for the Actions 2.0 module? If you view the source of a page, everything is hidden via the javascript, making it impossible to see what CSS (petition content, textarea) is defining the page. (So I can overwrite them) Are these CSS terms for Actions 2.0 advocacy pages located anywhere in the support forums? If someone can point me to them, I would be helpful. I'm guessing there's a DIA stylesheet or JS styles I can load somewhere that I'm missing.

Tagged: action, Advocacy, campaign, Email

Our dear supporters love to send letters to decision makers.  We no longer provide template letters; instead, we give them some ideas to think about and ask them to write their own letter.

A fair percentage, for some baffling reason, send a blank letter.  Is there any way to prevent that?  Do others have the same issue?

I used to prefill the letter body with "Write your letter here", but guess what dozens of people sent to lawmakers?  You guessed it, "Write your letter here".

Tagged: action, Advocacy, letter, Salsa

Has anyone had any good use or results from the catalist upgrade that DIA offered a while back that impressed them, or just did what you hoped that added some value to your advocacy or fundraising either online or offline?

Tagged: Advocacy, Catalist, fundraising, Catalist Integration, Supporter Management

We were told a week ago that the preferred method of contact when targeting President Barack Obama (yay!) was the the e-mail address comments@whitehouse.gov. Well... turns out this e-mail address was disabled yesterday (you all do so much amazing advocacy we must have inundated their inbox.) We are working on parsing the webform at www.whitehouse.gov/contact, which is now the only method to contact the White House. We will notify you via Salsa Commons when it is finished. We will also attempt to resend all messages that were received after the account was disabled on February 4, 2009.

Tagged: Advocacy, Salsa

When trying to advocate on a legislative issue, what tools tend to work better - Petitions (collecting a list of signatures and then delivering them all at once to the targets I'm trying to influence) or a Campaign (delivering messages one at a time from our supporters directly to their individual legislator). I'm sure the answer is "it depends," but would love to get some best practices!

Tagged: Advocacy, Campaigns, Petitions, Advocacy Campaigns

Do we have interaction with the contact form for whitehouse.gov yet?  

I need to change an action from change.gov to whitehouse.gov ASAP  

Just got an Action email  from True Majority and they have it working.

Tagged: Advocacy, Contact, Obama, Salsa, whitehouse.gov