I’m pleased to report that Jeff Reifman has rescued ActionStudio from the train wreck created by Groundspring’s recent organizational turmoil.
He’s relaunched his low-cost, high-featured online activism tool as eAdvocacy from ActionStudio.
eAdvocacy is a great tool for doing online petitions and contact-your-decisionmaker elements. It offers a great blend of powerful features at a bargain-basement price — $50/month plus a penny per email.
ONE/Northwest will be enthusiastically recommending both eAdvocacy and Democracy in Action to folks who are looking for solid low-end online advocacy tools.
Jon, correct me if I’m wrong – but it appears that both of these tools are only available to nonprofit organizations. That would seem to exclude advocacy-minded for-profit groups, political campaigns, some labor unions – and possibly 501c4 organizations.
Kari,
Democracy in Action is itself a 501(c)3, and thus is available only to other (c)3 organizations.
ActionStudio is privately held, and while their focus is on nonprofits, they are not legally prevented from serving other organizations, and it’s my understanding are open to discussing serving other clients on a case-by-case basis.
A suggestion: dates (including the year, since Google will be leading people to the site for years. (The original post has no date; the comments lack a year).
Also, can you explain
“the train wreck created by Groundspring’s recent organizational turmoil. “
Thanks
[...] In the mean time, one of the exciting possibilities that releasing the code made possible is that Jeff has been able to resurrect the discontinued AdvocacyNow tool at the original ActionStudio.org domain. See Jon Stahl, and Jeff for more info. [...]