Tips

Online organizing tips

• Elements of a good online communication plan
  blog post by Jon Stahl
• Online communication strategies
  This is a presentation including tips for effective online communication, how and why to engage your list, and a look at examples from other affiliates.
• Blogging: Public Affairs Next Frontier
  article by Ken Deutsch
• Learn about blogs at wikipedia
• TechSoup.org
  Home of many great tips, worksheets, listings and dicussions

 
Resources here at the PP Online Organizing Center:

• PP Affiliates blog their lobby days
• About blogs

Presentations and other helpful documents

• GetActive overview
  This is a one-page handout for people who are totally unfamiliar with GetActive. Great for CEO's and board members.
• Quick Reference for GetActive
  This is a handy one-page refresher on using GetActive for people who have already been trained. Pin it up next to your monitor!
• Online communication strategies
  This is a presentation including tips for effective online communication, how and why to engage your list, and a look at examples from other affiliates.
• Analyzing your Campaigns with GetActive Reports
  This was presented at the GetActive User conference on October 7, 2004. It introduces the federation structure and demonstrates many of the major comparative reports available in GetActive. It also briefly reviews Excel Pivot Tables. (For more on PivotTables, check out the monthly web training on Reporting and Excel.)
• Making reports in Excel
  This short presentation walks through the process of creating "PivotTables" in Excel - a great way to count and analyze your data from GetActive.
• GetActive User Guide 4.0
  A thorough 180-page guide to using GetActive. Updated in September 2004. Especially helpful is the "Frequently Asked Questions" section.
• How to Remove Duplicates from your GetActive list
  This is a one-page guide to removing duplicates from your GetActive center. It covers exporting your list, manually filtering and marking duplicates, and uploading the lists of records to be removed or updated.
• GetActive README
  GetActive's instructions will cover most of the technical information you need to use GetActive. There are a few issues that are specific to us at Planned Parenthood. Please review this document to ensure that your affiliate and state uses GetActive efficiently and effectively. These are tips to supplement training by GetActive, not replace it.
• 501(c)(4) Quick Guide: Get Active
  This document covers the most frequently asked questions about using Get Active for 501(c)(4) activities.
• Get Active Import Codes
  Before you start importing names into Get Active, please refer to this helpful sheet. It will tell you how to properly code somone as a volunteer, a democrat, and more.