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Part 2: The Art of Volunteer Sign-up Forms

In part one, we discussed the steps you can take to turn those online social media followers into real life volunteers for your organization. Well, we’re back and this time we have a few ideas on how you can utilize your organization’s website to make it easier for volunteers to sign up.

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Part 1: Turning Avatars Into Volunteers

Using Social Media To Turn Followers Into Volunteers

It’s hard, turning visitors to your website into volunteers. But, there are steps you can take to convert avatars to real life faces.  And, it’s just your luck because we are about to show you how to turn your visitors into volunteers in this short blog series.

First things first, how do you gather a steady stream of followers to pause and pay attention to you? As we have said in previous posts, the key is to pause and pay attention to them.  Interact.

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The New Importance of Microsites

How to be the most creative campaign on the smallest budget – that is the name of the game these days. Everyone is throwing his or her ideas in the ring and we have certainly used our blog to do that as well.  After completing a microsite for Architecture for Humanity, we decided to throw another idea in the ring and share our thoughts on why we think microsites are a great creative way to grab attention.

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5 Presidential Campaign Tricks That You Can Utilize

When every penny counts, get creative.

My friends and I were all been amazed at the technological tricks that the presidential campaigns utilized - everything from websites mocking the other side, to buying trending Twitter topics, to using mobile apps for reminding supporters about important deadlines. Most of those tricks required generous pockets from supporters, but we have collected a list of things we think smaller budgets can both handle and benefit from. It’s time to get creative without spending a fortune. Here’s our tip-five list:

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STEP 3: Figuring Out Who You Are

So, now that we have either a) overwhelmed you with information or b) bored you with it, it’s time to take the next step – that’s right, it’s homework time.  But, it should be fun, because it’s all about you. Shawn and I came up with a few questions for you to think about so that we can use them to discover, develop, and plan your content. The trick is to keep it concise – cut out excess thoughts so that you can focus on the keys rather than the whole door – that comes later.

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STEP 2: Media is a Website's Best Friend

People on the internet are like children during story time, we need pictures to go along with your words. They help break up an entire page of type, complement your thoughts, and are easy to share on other sites. Essentially, they keep us from getting distracted elsewhere...or from being not impressed.

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STEP 1: Content

or How Great Content Inspires Great Design.

With everyone focused on creating the next big website, complete with social media integration and a design never seen by mankind, the competition dwarfs the most important part of a website: content.

Content is, after all, the reason people are visiting your site. So why, in all of the fuss about how to be ahead of the curve, is creating online content hiding in the strategy shadows? We’re not sure, but we’re determined to bring it into the light through a short blog series devoted to the art of content creation, because we believe you should think about content from day one.

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Pictures Say A Thousand Words - Including Facebook Cover Photos

The importance of Facebook cover photos to your image

Oh, the Facebook cover photo; that beautiful 851px by 315px picture at the top of everyone’s page. It’s the perfect place for an ad…except not. Facebook has placed guidelines on that prime real estate (see the screenshots below). But, we still think it’s a great place to showcase what you are all about. Here’s why.

Why you should utilize it

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Good Collaboration, Winning Results

CCHI website wins Pollie Award

In March, The American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) awarded Albatross Digital with a Bronze Pollie Award for our amazing website.  The award is for Best Membership Organization Website. (A Pollie Award is the political consulting industry’s highest honor bestowed upon consultants at the national and international level)

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Components of Reach that we will be opensourcing

We will make a documentation repository available at code.albatrossreach.com.  A demo of the hosted-version of reach is available at demo.albatrossreach.com.

Installation profile

 To be released on Drupal.org

  • reach: Will include the installation profile and a Drush .make file

Modules

 To be released on Drupal.org

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