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CitizenSpeak featured in new book
It turns out that CitizenSpeak is really making the rounds right now. The latest news is that it’s included in a new book: Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age by Allison Fine. The book includes a description of how a Philadelphia organization used CitizenSpeak and other online organizing tools to rally their community…
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I won the Pizzigati Prize for my work on CitizenSpeak!
I’m completely stoked that I won the first annual Pizzigati Prize for non-profit open source software for my work on CitizenSpeak! The family of Antonio Pizzigati established the prize to reward open source developers in the non-profit sector.
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CitizenSpeak Colophon
There were two projects in getting CitizenSpeak up and running: Developing the CitizenSpeak module and creating the CitizenSpeak site. While they were intertwined, they also provided distinct educations. I found that the I18n module can serve dual purposes; it provides the Spanish language interface to the site as well as allowing us to customize standard…
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Developing the CitizenSpeak Module
Yes, another CitizenSpeak post. I’ll probably do one more after this about how the site is configured, and then updates as events warrant. This time I want to talk about developing the module. I’ll admit that it’s been a while since I started working on the CitizenSpeak module. Part of it was that I was…
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More About the CitizenSpeak Update
In the announcement yesterday I wrote that I would be blogging more about CitizenSpeak, and with this post the prophesy has come to pass. Organizations have had tools like Capitol Advantage to create advocacy campaigns for quite some time. Those tools aren’t necessarily accessible for small or ad-hoc efforts due to the cost involved. CitizenSpeak…
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CitizenSpeak Re-launches!
Remember when I begged for money months ago? Well it payed off, and now the new CitizenSpeak has re-launched. Briefly, CitizenSpeak is a site that allows people to create and host email campaigns. It allows ad-hoc organizing around any issue that puts a bug up someone’s butt. I’ll probably blog more about it later this…
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Give to CitizenSpeak (and me!)
CitizenSpeak is a site that allows people to create email campaigns targeted at change, like the ultra-successful EFF campaign to stop the Broadcast Flag (that the EFF runs, not CitizenSpeak). It’s a tool that anyone can use, and activists at any level can use it to focus their community’s voice. And it’s free. If you…