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Release Your Internal Advocacy Numbers

Eventbrite (a service we Beekeepers use regularly for managing our own events) recently made national news with the release of some of its internal numbers on the impact of tweets versus Facebook likes for generating ticket sales through the site. Mashable was quick to pick-up the story followed by NPR, CNN and numerous other news outlets and blogs.

It made us think – which organizations in the advocacy and non-profit space could have noteworthy numbers they wouldn’t mind sharing. Here is a quick list of some of the numbers we would love to see (if only they would be shared):

  • Aggregate letters sent to the Hill, broken down by topic and/or office, from advocacy platform suppliers like: Capwiz, DDC Advocacy, VoterVoice, BIPAC, BlueState, WiredforChange, Vocus, RallyCongress, WeGov, Grassroots Multiplier (apologies for any we missed)
  • Traffic generated from social networks to an advocacy campaign’s action pages
  • Details from Facebook about total actions from all “Causes” Campaigns
  • Aggregate numbers from some of the patch-through call services related to Hill contacts, etc.
  • Conversion rates for an advocacy campaign from Facebook ads verses Google paid search ads

If you can think of more numbers you would like to see, please add a comment to this post with your suggestion.

If you happen to work at an organization that is willing to share some of your data (aggregates data only to protect member/client privacy) then please let us know and we would be happy to promote your efforts. Our industry craves this sort of benchmarked data and your openness will help brand you as an advocacy industry leader.


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Helen Thomas Video Delayed by Homework

The rise of political ’gotcha’ videos is nothing new, but people may be surprised to learn the power that video can truly give the amateur activist.

Take the recent career ending Helen Thomas YouTube video filmed by Rabbi David F. Nesenoff. According to Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, speaking at last week’s Vocus Users Conference, uploading of the video was delayed for 10 days because Rabbi Nesenoff’s ‘webmaster’ son had finals and just didn’t have time to get it online. This was not some carefully orchestrated campaign, but an average guy with a video cam and some obviously limited tech resources.

Mike Panetta, who also spoke at the Vocus event, discussed the power of video and how technological advances have put video cameras and basic editing software in the hands of many smartphone users. As new video enabled phones hit the market, you can expect to see even more amateur video activists emerge. Mike also offered an example of a slightly more polished amateur video from a disgruntled airline passenger who used video (and song) to express his anger with United Airlines for breaking his guitar: very funny!!

Beware the guy with the smartphone, he may be filming you right now!


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