Make the Most of Your Organization’s Fly-in
After more than six years of fly-ins, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) has learned a thing or two about hosting a successful meeting.
Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
Today, reporters are under extreme pressure to break news. Unfortunately, this leads to their spreading false information and perhaps even influencing the outcome of events.
Operation Smile Launches Viral Campaign for World Health Day
Operation Smile and Ogilvy India teamed up to launch a viral social campaign on World Health Day to spread awareness about cleft deformity and generate donations to fund corrective surgery for children across India.
Sunlight Foundation Reports on 2013 Issue Advertising
The Sunlight Foundation wants to make issue-based ads more transparent because the unions, advocacy groups, super PACs, and 501-(c)(4) social welfare nonprofits who fund them are not required to disclose their name in ads that influence voters.
Mark Zuckerberg Is Creating an Issue Advocacy Group
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is diving head-first into DC politics: he recently announced that he is spearheading the creation of an issue advocacy group that will focus on immigration reform.
K Street Firms Set Up Shop in Brussels
With a ‘massive trade deal’ on the horizon between the United States and the European Union (EU), a number of K Street lobbying firms are setting up shop in Brussels.
Life Outside the Beltway
Perhaps we should be spending less time cherry-picking survey results to see which politicians or issues are most popular and spending more time analyzing the “no opinions.” That way we can learn whether the problem is ignorance or apathy — or both.
DC Event Highlight: February 19
Social Media for Advocacy: Lessons from 2012 & Your Ideas for 2013: The session will examine how social media affected advocacy programs in 2012, including notable ones like the SOPA/PIPA debate. Social Media professionals and amateur activists will discuss and learn the most effective uses of the latest communication technology trends.
Sunlight Launches Tool for Tracking Comments on Federal Regulations
Last week the Sunlight Foundation unveiled Docket Wrench, a searchable database that allows anyone to monitor the trends with the federal rulemaking process. Many advocacy organizations will find this tool useful to gain intel and to refine their strategy for advocating as rules are defined and implemented by federal agencies. From Sunlight’s release: The rulemaking process [...]
Are We On the Same Page?
Doug Pinkham, Public Affairs Council President Why don’t more companies integrate their communications and government relations functions? Natural synergies exist among those who manage relationships with government, the media, local communities, employees and other stakeholders. It seems inefficient — and even dangerous — to build “silos” that separate people and programs with similar goals. Twenty [...]
