April 2009
10 posts
New Feature: Social Network Links
Notice the “Bookmark” button at the top right of your petition pages?
A new report in your Rally Congress control panel tracks when users click one of these “bookmark” or “share” links. When the user clicks on the link it carries them to the third party site (i.e. Facebook) and pre-populates that site’s submit form with your petition link.
Links from...
Rep.-Elect Scott Murphy Wins Nail Biter in New...
This weekend Scott Murphy was declared the winner in a tight special election in this Albany-area district. The office became vacant when the governor appointed Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to fill New York’s junior Senate seat. Once Representative-elect Murphy is seated, there will only be one vacancy in the House (CA -32), and one in the Senate— the Minnesota Senate battle continues in...
2009 Politics Online Conference Photos
A great time was had by all! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and to the organizers of the conference at George Washington University and Campaigns & Elections. See you again next year!
Rep. Mike Quigley Fills Illinois 5th District Seat
Yesterday Congress swore in the Honorable Mike Quigley, who fills the open 5th District of Illinois after winning a special election earlier this month. The seat became open when Rep. Rahm Emanuel joined the Obama Administration last winter. Congrats to Rep. Quigley— we’ve got a backlog of letters waiting for you!
Sponsoring the 2009 Politics Online Conference
We’ve just finished two days at the annual Politics Online Conference in downtown Washington, DC, where we sponsored and had a table to demo the Rally Congress platform. We had a great time. Photos and details to follow!
A Few Tweaks to the Control Panel
Clients logging in to their control panel may notice a few changes today. We’ve created a new box for “System-wide” adjustments that impact all pages on your site. These include uploading a logo or header image, changing the color scheme of your Rally Congress pages and title text, and editing the default forward-to-friend text. Hopefully this improved layout will make...
Easter Server Upgrades!
The Rally Congress team was up before dawn yesterday as we migrated the entire technical platform and all client databases to a new set of servers. We did the move on the holiday to minimize the disruption and downtime, and to do it when the system was least busy.
The move was smooth and the result are web pages that are even faster than ever! The new capactity will also allow us to handle even...
Adding Guam's Delegate Madeleine Bordallo
We’ve just added support for Guam zip codes and emails to Congresswoman Bordallo after several requests from Guam residents. Of course, for U.S. servicemen and women temporarily serving abroad, the best thing is to send email to the officials representing your permanent address.
Guam, of course, is a U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean— “Where America’s Day Begins!”
New Feature: Edit Your Forward-to-Friend Pages
Every Rally Congress client has “Forward-to-a-Friend” pages that are standardized for all of your calls to action. These pages, of course, allow your users to engage their friends through system-generated emails. (You can view an example.) Every account includes some default text, but now you can make changes if you prefer something different. Just use the “Edit...
Congressional Twitter and Facebook Contact Info
Have you heard that John McCain is a profilic tweeter on Twitter, with over 340,000 followers?
Many members of Congress have a Facebook presence, and some are even on Twitter! These are important new avenues where you and your advocacy campaign can reach them. One of the great features of Facebook is the comments “Wall” where friends can leave a public message.
There’s a...