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ActBlue Launches a Blog

by: KTatActBlue

Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 20:36:32 PM EDT


cross-posted at Daily Kos and MyDD

With as many friends as ActBlue has in the Democratic blogging community, it's about time we joined the party with a blog of our own. So today we are launching our official ActBlue Blog where we look forward to bringing our donors, candidates, campaigns, fundraisiers, and bloggers interesting resources, analysis, tips, and other information to more effectively raise funds to elect Democrats!

Here's just a sampling of things you can expect to see-

  • Case Studies on some of the most creative ways ActBlue has been used
  • Analysis on how and why people donate
  • State Reports that highlight successful state level campaigns
  • Tips & Tricks about ways to use ActBlue you may not have known about
  • Page of the Week where we will highlight our favorite fundraising strategies
  • Monthly ActBlue Zeitgeist to explore trends, patterns, and other cool stuff
  • Major Series where we will explore how we are most relevant to your efforts in fundraising

This week I'll be cross-posting some content from our blog as a way to introduce it to our friends in the online community. Tomorrow we'll be releasing our version of a case study on the Secretary of State Project (which I was a blogger for last year before being hired by ActBlue). Later in the week I'll introduce you to successful state level fundraising efforts by blogging communities and local organizations.

Our posts will strive to be informative and useful while maintaining the Democratic grassroots values which have driven us for the last two and a half years. We encourage you to subscribe to our RSS feed or sign up to receive new posts via e-mail to keep up with our latest posts (both available at http://blog.actblue.com).

Much of the growth for ActBlue and the netroots in the next 2 years will be at the state level. Hopefully I'll be able to work with you to enable more successes in the statehouse while we work to expand our DC majority. If you have thoughts or questions, please leave me a comment!

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Thanks for posting this.

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Hey no problem (4.00 / 1)
I actually have been meaning to get in touch ever since I saw wvablue set up an actblue page the other day. I'd be happy to share some tips and pointers on that as well. I just got gone helping Raising Kaine get everything launched in Virginia since they have elections this year.

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KTatActBlue -- Thank you for the diary (0.00 / 0)
And welcome to WVaBlue. :)

That timing was really good. I added the Act Blue blog to our allies blogroll last night--just a couple of hours before your diary! There's a nice moment of synchronicity.

I'm a huge fan of ActBlue. I'd love to get that 10K raised to bring fund-raising down to the WVa state and legislative offices. I saw that the DLCC has funded other states, any chance you think they'll toss that in for WVa?

I don't know how campaign finance laws work, but can the WV Democratic Party fund that? Or, how about individual candidate PACs?

Sen. Byrd has been generous with funds for county Democratic Party committees, I wonder if his office could be hit up for a major donation. Heck, a mere $2500 from Byrd/Rockefeller/Rahall/Mollohan each would do it... that's a drop in the bucket for their campaigns.


my pleasure (4.00 / 1)
As you know we're not active in WV yet but I'd love to have that change!  Anyone can contribute to the Activate efforts, so if it's the party or bloggers or candidates, or committees, they can all pitch in. It's what Utah did (which will be the subject of an upcoming feature on the ActBlue blog at some point).

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