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This training covers the science of designing meaningful tests and analyzing your results, as well as key strategies for testing for email, websites, and social media. You'll learn from some of the top innovators in the field, who will combine up-front lessons with hands-on practice to teach you best practices in developing experiments and optimizing each part of your online presence based on clear data.
We are on a mission to collect, standardize, and share a database of our nation’s ballot information. We want every voter in the US to know who and what will be on their November ballot ahead of time, so they can make informed decisions about their vote.
Presently this dataset does not exist, and its absence is stifling innovation around the way candidates communicate with their electorate, and around the way we discover who and what to vote for. We aim to fix that.
Continue Reading»In 2008, 1.9 million Americans said that they did not vote simply because they did not know where to go.
The Voting Information Project (VIP) offers cutting edge technology tools to provide voters with access to customized election information to help them navigate the voting process and cast an informed vote.
Working with the Pew Center on the States, Google, and other partners, we delivered the VIP project, the first completely free, 50-state plus DC database of polling locations. Working with Secretaries of State and local election-administrators, VIP collects, formats, and delivers polling place information. Organizations and individuals can build their own unique tools using the VIP data, or embed a simple Google Gadget that will allow anyone with a computer or smartphone to easily look up his or her polling place.
In 2010, more than 7.2 million people used the data and tools to locate their polling place.
The VIP team works to constantly improve the accuracy, availability, and access to this data so that no one in America will miss casting a ballot simply because they do not know their polling place. Over the coming years, the project hopes to add additional information, including local ballot information, candidate information, and any other key information people will need to make an informed decision in the voting booth.
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by Holly TeresiMay 18, 2012
Don't you hate it when you find really interesting stuff to read on the interwebs, but just don't have enough time to get through it? As organizers, it's important that we stay abreast of cool developments, breaking news, and take a minute to laugh at that video of a lion trying to eat a baby in a zebra sweatshirt. But we don't always have time to check it out right now.
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We’re a community of organizers, and we’re committed to solving the biggest challenges that stand in the way of change.
Our basic belief is simple: if people have the skills to engage others, the tools to build powerful campaigns, and a community of practice to help them learn and grow, they can win real change, make measurable improvements in people’s lives, and restore faith in our government and our democracy.
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