ActBlue in 50 Words or Less (with prizes!)

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Wednesday March 18, 2009 · 3:24 PM PDT

2009/03/18 · 15:24

"I believe candidates with strong, sound stances deserve our support, and this is a race where your dollars can make the difference. Please make a contribution to this critical cause."

Sound familiar? If you have any experience with our fundraising pages you will have seen this (and perhaps fallen asleep to it) a few too many times. It is the default text for ActBlue’s fundraising pages. As you’ve seen here via Kos’s Orange to Blue page, ActBlue’s customizable fundraising pages allow progressive activists to raise money for the best Democratic candidates out there easily and effectively. But while the original blurb did help Democrats use our pages, we're in year 5 of ActBlue, and this is definitely year 3-4 material. We'll be working with thousands of new fundraisers this cycle, and we want to make sure they have the best language. And, well, this isn't it.

So, we need ideas.

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Thursday February 12, 2009 · 2:06 PM PST

2009/02/12 · 14:06

Donate to Paul Hodes on ActBlue and send a message to Sen. Gregg that you're ready for change.

Donate to the ActBlue NH Senate Nominee Fund if you can't commit to Paul, but are ready for change.

Today, right now, it's that simple. Spread the Word.

Follow more discussion over at Blue Hampshire who are the locals on the scene.

Update: I updated the title to better reflect the range of emotions to feel about Judd Gregg. I also wanted to let you know in addition to pulling out of the Commerce job, he's decided not to run for re-election to the Senate anyways! Donate to celebrate above!

WMUR is reporting that Gregg will not run for re-election in 2010. Adam Sexton just announced it on Channel 9.

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Tuesday October 02, 2007 · 4:17 PM PDT

2007/10/02 · 16:17

(From the diaries -- kos)

There is a rising force in the online community, often forgotten by the mainstream media because of their niche audience and dispersed nature. With over half a million readers a week they are on the front lines of grassroots battles. Their ears to the ground and their footsteps echoing in the halls of their capitals, they are often the first to report on issues and breaking news that eventually bubble up to the national discussion.

This force is the vast and ever growing community of state and local blogs. These blogs and their nearly 1000 authors are both a part of the national Netroots and unique local communities unto themselves.

In some states with more established blogging traditions, networks of bloggers have created communications tools to facilitate the sharing of best practices and to coordinate messaging campaigns. Other blog networks have worked to grow readership and develop true community-oriented sites. This year has seen some of the most interesting developments as these blogging communities started flexing their fundraising muscle in state and local races. Even better, some have gone a step further by leveraging their online presence into offline action. This maturation of state blogging is truly exciting.

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Would you attend a local blog-hosted event?

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Would you attend a local blog-hosted event?

I'd attend a local event.

3082 votes

I woudn't want to go to a real-world event.

526 votes

Actually, I'd like to help host one!

179 votes

Give Props Live during YKos Presidential Forum

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Saturday August 04, 2007 · 11:05 AM PDT

2007/08/04 · 11:05

I'm here live in the main ballroom with the rest of the ActBlue team and Yearly Kos community. We're prepared for the Yearly Kos Presidential Forum and would like to offer up this as a live "Props" thread for those attending personally or virtually.

Wach the Forum Live here: http://ustream.tv/...

Give Props Live via ActBlue: www.actblue.com/page/ykforum

Reward the candidates when you hear something you like via the page above made specifically for the forum!

Sen. Harry Reid Supports Blogosphere Day

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Thursday July 19, 2007 · 11:50 AM PDT

2007/07/19 · 11:50

I just got this statement in on Senate Majority Harry Reid's support of the 4th Annual Blogosphere Day!

I am immensely proud that 17 of my Senate colleagues have joined me in using ActBlue to build our Democratic majority, and I expect many more to do so this election cycle.

Blogosphere Day celebrates the greatest aspiration of our democracy: people coming together to change the direction of their country. By enabling Democrats from all walks of life to work together, to pool their passion and energy, and to elect candidates who represent their values, ActBlue has created a unique strategic advantage for the Democratic Party.

Your investment in ActBlue builds resources for our best candidates, our best activists, and our best ideas -- and your contribution today makes the biggest difference as we pave the road to November 2008.

Please support ActBlue today.

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Friday July 06, 2007 · 1:16 PM PDT

2007/07/06 · 13:16

Over the past week we've looked at a number of statistics from ActBlue.com, everything from some raw numbers, top candidates, and top fundraising pages. To finish out our series we're going to take a look at one of the most important areas of ActBlue- state level fundraising.

It's true that federal activity made up the majority of 2nd Quarter fundraising at ActBlue- 90% in fact. That's no surprise as federal races have always made up the bulk of ActBlue activity and tend to get started sooner than state legislative races.

That said, state level fundraising at ActBlue has huge potential for 2008 and is already showing enormous growth. In the 2nd Quarter, $323,638 was raised for state candidates in 15 states. (To note- in Q2 2005, just under $100,000 was raised across ActBlue for all candidates federal and non-federal.)

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Thursday July 05, 2007 · 3:46 PM PDT

2007/07/05 · 15:46

Yesterday we looked at the top candidates on ActBlue for the last quarter. Today we'll look at our ActBlue fundraising pages which any individual or campaign can create to support the candidates and causes of their choice.

Before we look at the individual pages here are some big picture numbers. Since ActBlue started three years ago, 4,263 different fundraising pages have been created, 43% of which have raised funds. In the 2nd Quarter of 2007, 606 fundraising pages were created, of which 71% raised funds. We're very excited to see that above average number of successful pages. Users are becoming more savvy in reaching out to their friends and supporters which is beneficial to the campaigns receiving those contributions.

And now, the Top 10 lists of ActBlue fundraising pages by number of donors and dollars broken down by lifetime totals and those for the recently completed Q2.

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Wednesday July 04, 2007 · 3:08 PM PDT

2007/07/04 · 15:08

(Promoted from the diaries by MissLaura. ActBlue is such an important tool for netroots support of candidates, it's interesting to see these aggregated figures. Be on the lookout for the other installments of this ActBlue statistics series.)

Yesterday we looked at some of the big picture numbers at ActBlue. Today, we're going to take a look at candidates and campaigns behind those numbers, both for the 2nd Quarter and for ActBlue's history.

Top 10 entities by # donors (Lifetime)

Top 10 entities by # donors (Q2)

Top candidates by $ raised (Lifetime)

Top candidates by $ raised (Q2)

Join us tomorrow when we look at fundraising pages on ActBlue.

Q2 Fundraising Stats

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Tuesday July 03, 2007 · 6:44 PM PDT

2007/07/03 · 18:44

Let's spend some time looking at our ActBlue totals, donors, and contributions. I'll be breaking these apart for 2nd Quarter data compared to that for the lifetime of ActBlue.

Total Contributions
Life: $24,790,988.32
Q2: $3,460,609.75

The 2nd Quarter of 2007 represents 14% of all contributions made on ActBlue over the least 3 years. To put this in perspective, it took ActBlue over five fundraising quarters in '05-'06 to raise the same amount as was raised in this past quarter alone. By November of 2006, ActBlue had raised a lifetime total of about $17 million with 40% of that coming in during the last 6 weeks of the campaign cycle. When you consider that Q2 2007 is already outpacing Q2 2005 by a factor of 10 and that this is a Presidential Cycle...well, you get the picture. It's one of the reasons why investment in ActBlue is so critical- we'll need to expand our six member staff and move out of our 600 sq ft office sooner than later.

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Monday July 02, 2007 · 10:38 AM PDT

2007/07/02 · 10:38

This post was written by ActBlue's co-founder Matt DeBergalis and is cross-posted from the ActBlue Blog.

We've talked a lot about how you can use ActBlue effectively, where you can run into us at trainings and events, and what's coming next. Today's topic is a little different, but no less important.

I want to start talking about how it all works. In particular, I want to talk about sustainability: how we built ActBlue to last forever.

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Thursday June 28, 2007 · 3:12 PM PDT

2007/06/28 · 15:12

Today ActBlue marks its 3rd Anniversary. Seriously, 3 years? I know- time flies.

Back in 2004, our founders Matt DeBergalis and Benjamin Rahn thought they could build something that would change Democratic fundraising- making it, well, more democratic. The two of them, living off of savings and limited investment, set out to build a platform that would end up changing our Party. Working out of their homes, they built the first generation of ActBlue.

This innovative, secure, and groundbreaking way to give money to Democrats was launched in June of 2004 before the end of the fundraising quarter. The earliest adopters, the blogosphere, helped push $250,000 into federal campaigns that summer. Printing $1 million in checks out of Matt's living room by the end of 2004 was an accomplishment for the start-up. ActBlue caught the eye of Democratic campaigns, organizations, and establishment investors and it was time to grow.

And grow ActBlue did. You can see it for yourself in the numbers.

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Friday June 15, 2007 · 1:40 PM PDT

2007/06/15 · 13:40

Recently I talked about County Parties and how ActBlue can help them in many states across the county. We've been adding new counties scattered across the county since that post but I wanted to point our a really great success story.

Enter the Hancock County Democratic Committee in Maine. An institution that goes back many years, folks involved with the Party saw our posts and with the help of the writers over at Turn Maine Blue got set up using ActBlue.

What's more exciting is that they used ActBlue to launch an innovative fundraising pitch for a new bumper sticker they were selling. (kakistocracy meaning "Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.")

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