ConstantContact recently announced a new Salesforce integration and here is our assessment. While the integration is easy to setup and use it falls short in a few key areas. Bottom line = a bunt instead of a grand slam.

In July 2010, Groundwire surveyed its clients and followers to determine what common email broadcasting trends are present in the environmental nonprofit sector.

Megaphone 2.0 now combines letter-writing campaign functionality with petition-signing to deliver a powerful set of advocacy features to your website.

A quick follow-up to last week's blog post on purchasing social media data: Jesse Haff and Jim Gilliam of 3dna (the guys behind the Twitter petition tool act.ly) just released Match Factory, a tool that matches the email addresses in your database to their corresponding Facebook accounts.

Facebook Places is coming to a Facebook near you. What that means for you and potentially your social change organization.

How can you bridge the divide between your organization's social media efforts and your database? An easy and affordable way to start is by purchasing social media data from a company like Rapleaf.

Yep, we're all publishers now. We manage websites, blogs, and our social media channels. As a movement we've come a long way. Most environmental groups now have an organizational website they can easily manage and update on their own--just five years ago this was not the case for many groups. Web technology was needed and most organizations have made the transition. However a new set of responsibilities came along with the new website.

The climate bill is dead. But that's not stopping our groups, friends, and partners from taking the earth into their own hands.

Hey. Don’t let the haters get to you. You know that more people than ever, EVER, believe in climate change and want the government to do something about it. More people than ever are freaked out about demolishing our oceans and forests. More people than ever are worried about harmful crap in their food and on their babies and in their hand lotion and are on that first level of engagement, ready to be moved up when you reach out to them.

Groundwire Labs, our innovation engine for engagement technology, is honored to receive a $20,000 grant from the Salesforce foundation to build a volunteer management module.

We like to talk about engagement superpowers around here, those special powers that help you build relationships, make people prioritize your cause, and better engage them in your work.
Oregon Environmental Council, notoriously good at flexing their superpowers, is at it again: Wonder Twins powers, activate! Form of: Eco-Healthy Homes Checkup Kit!  Form of: Roasted Turkey and Cherry Chutney wrap!

At Groundwire, we invest most of our skills and resources in strategy and technology projects for environmental advocacy organizations.  This is where we think what we’ve got to offer has the most bang for the buck.  But there are other projects that we take on, projects that we think have real impact, and occasionally one of these projects is for an environmental funder, or funders, as the case may be.

We are thrilled to welcome Eric Magnuson to the Groundwire team. Eric is our new (and first!) Labs Manager. At the end of last year, we put an official name to our innovation program and Groundwire Labs was born.

10 Fun Ways to Reconnect with Your Mother This Summer. (And by Mother, we mean Earth. And by Earth, we mean that big round thing that supports your existence. And by Summer, we mean right now.)

The groups we work here at Groundwire with are an industrious bunch -- always planning this, that, and the other to engage the greatest number of people in protecting and enjoying this gorgeous little planet of ours. Read on for a few of our favorites and please feel free to add to our list.

Watch video from our latest knowledge share: Google Analytics 101.

Sixty-two days and billions of barrels into it, many of us are considering an off-the-grid escape and/or just completely giving up and spending the rest of our days in an Escalade gnawing on a side of corn-fed beef. The Gulf Spill is so big, so terrifying, so complex and so intertwined with our daily lives that a lot of us who live in the General Population feel hopeless, guilty, angry, tired, scared, paralyzed. Time to shake it off, people.

Get to know Groundwire's new Executive Director, Neal Myrick, in his own words. First we went a little serious, then we got all Actors Studio. Enjoy.

So the first question, pretty obvious.  Why Groundwire?
Groundwire has both a rich history of success and amazing potential. Gideon Rosenblatt, the previous ED, did an incredible job of positioning Groundwire with the right people and the right skills at the perfect time for helping environmental organizations take advantage of online and social media tools.

Deep in the northeastern corner of Washington State, there is magic. This is where the mighty Columbia pushes down into the lower 48, where the Western Rockies meet highland ranches, where grizzlies refuse to stop at the border and make their home in one of the richest wildlife habitats in the state. This special place is called the Columbia Highlands, thousands of acres of upper Columbia River wilderness featuring open parklands, forests, rolling grassy slopes, granite ridges, and quiet canyons.

We want to take a moment and recognize one of our superstar volunteers, John Fine. After two years of volunteering with Groundwire's database team, John’s time with us has officially come to an end.

This is the second installment of tricks and tips for troubleshooting HTML problems in an email newsletter template. Learn how to properly set the link color.

It’s time to celebrate!  We are so excited to welcome our new Executive Director, Neal Myrick, to the Groundwire community. 
Please join us for Happy Hour in honor of his arrival.