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New Tools in the Advocacy Toolkit

We invite you to view a recent panel discussion hosted by The Joyce Foundation: New Tools in the Advocacy Toolkit: Microtargeting, Netroots Mobilization, and e-Advocacy.

Historically, policy advocates have effectively pressed their causes using compelling research, good ideas, and the right relationships. However, in the past few years, sophisticated issue advocates have increasingly begun to identify and mobilize supporters through a whole new suite of new media-anchored strategies and tactics, including microtargeting, social networking, and e-advocacy.

Our panel includes policy experts discussing how they came to embrace these tools, what their objectives are, what successes they have had, and what lessons they have learned.

Click below for a 1 minute overview from experts.

New Tools in the advocacy toolkit

Click here to view a 6 minute highlight video from the discussion.

To view the presentations in their entirety, click on the links below:

Stephen Geer, Vice President, New Media at OMP political strategy firm and former director of email and online fundraising for the Obama presidential campaign

Alex Johnston, executive director of ConnCAN, a statewide education advocacy organization in Connecticut

Steve Morse, executive director of the Minnesota Environmental Partnership

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director and cofounder of MomsRising.org, a national organization working for family economic security

Question and answer session

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