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ActBlue Launches a Blog

by: KTatActBlue

Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 15:31:23 PM EDT


(Fantastic. Now all we need to do is bring ActBlue to Florida so we can support our legislative candidates in a more cohesive, cooperative manner. - promoted by Ray_Seaman)

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 lots of 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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This is wonderful. (0.00 / 0)
This year is one that needs to be spent rebuilding and strategizing for 2008. Your efforts are right on target. Thanks so much for this organizing project.
ActBlue in Florida (0.00 / 0)
For what races can candidates set up ActBlue pages here in Florida? 

For example, I have a candidate who is running for Supervisor of Elections - would he be able to set up a page or would you only be able to have a link to his website?

For Florida (0.00 / 0)
As it is right now, Florida is not a state where ActBlue is set up in for state candidates. We can handle all of the Congressional seats and the US Senate seats of course. Personally Florida would be a great place to be active as there is so much that can be done there but a combination of laws and low contribution limits make things complicated for ActBlue in how we typically work. That doesn't mean that we will never be able to work in Florida, just that there are reasons that other states have been worked on first.

As far as how local ActBlue is useful for, we go down all the way to state house candidates but at this time not to County level offices or city offices. At that point, many of them turn non-partisan and we are very much a "pro-Democratic" organization. But as time marches forward and we become active in as many states as we can for legislative offices, we may explore trying to go further down the ballot. With more money and more staff anything is possible in politics, but there are literally 10s of thousands of potential races at the county level!  Thanks for the question though!

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And I just saw... (0.00 / 0)
...the link to the Activate Florida Fund in the promotion. Very cool! Florida is indeed one of the states that is farthest along in funding the efforts to get all the legal stuff figured out so kudos to those that have donated.
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