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ActBlue Launches a Blog

by: KTatActBlue

Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 08:33 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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When are we going to get this in Maryland? (3.00 / 1)
Is this on the project list for the Free State Politics blog to get us State level ActBlue access? And do we have a Free State Politics fundraising page yet on ActBlue?

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King Jr.

There are more progressives than just Dems... (0.00 / 0)
Just a thought...

"You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me."— Ba Jin

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Really? (0.00 / 0)
Never met one that wasn't a Democrat. But I guess some of the third parties have progressive members.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King Jr.

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Largest weekly gathering of progressives in Anne Arundel (0.00 / 0)
Meet every Tuesday night at 49 West St.

"You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me."— Ba Jin

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I just can't wrap my mind around it. (2.00 / 1)
Sorry it's a personal weakness of mine, after seeing the Green efforts to get on the ballot in several states being fully funded by the Republican party, I just can't imagine them as progressive at all. But we've had this conversation before so no point in rehashing it. Maybe it's time for outreach, Tuesdays in Annapolis you say, are you sure they have room for a non-believer?

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King Jr.

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Room for non-believer? (0.00 / 0)
Meetings are open to anyone/everyone.

7pm 49 West St. Cafe

"You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me."— Ba Jin


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ActBlue in Maryland (4.00 / 1)
We'd love to be active in Maryland. We've most recently gotten Virginia and Mississippi on board (they have elections this year) and certainly there are more states to come.

If you or others want to help us along towards making that happen, there is always the Activate Maryland Fund.


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