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AdvocacyWear

   One of the more interesting facts about advocates is that they are likely to wear their cause on their sleeve….or should I say on their Tshirts, wrists or bodies somewhere. We asked this question in our research and although there were so many compelling learnings about what advocates do and say, the wearing of [...]

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Advocates On Edge

   Imagine my delight when I picked up Friday’s Wall Street Journal and on the front page was an article about people going after those unwarranted auto-warranty calls. The calls go like this, “This is the second notice that the factory warranty on your vehicle is about to expire.” I regularly receive these calls on [...]

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Science Advocates

    The web celebrated its 20th birthday this month. In March of 1989, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a paper about Information Management  thereby coining the term  “world wide web.”  In The Economist, a discussion about what the web accomplished over these past 20 years caught my attention since it related to advocacy. According to the article, [...]

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Recovering from the Financial Mess

  Advocates can help companies recover. So says Daniel Roth in the latest Wired. He says that one way to recover from this paralyzing economic downturn is to create an army of citizen-regulators or as we call them Advocates. “By giving everyone access to every piece of data—and making it easy to crunch—we can crowdsource [...]

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Advocates for Recovery

The Obama stimulus plan is looking for advocates. An email was sent to hosts of stimulus plan parties seeking support and info on explaining the bill. New DNC chairman Tim Kaine is videoed urging support and instructions on how to achieve that:  “Don’t forget to gather stories and questions from your guests — they will [...]

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Trolls and Ragers or Badvocates by Nature

I found this blog assessment flow chart from the Air Force from a Twitter alert.  It is quite useful and speaks highly of the military’s ability to manage various types of posters.  David Faggard who heads the public affairs division and is responsible for this tool is the head of its emerging technology division.  His [...]

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wikiadvocates

For all those advocates of knowledge, the founder of wikipedia is asking for some help. Unusual from them but for a good cause. Read below.

Dear Reader,
Today I am going to ask you to support Wikipedia with a donation. This might sound unusual: Why does one of the world’s five most popular web properties ask for [...]

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