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VOTE NOW: Activism2Go

By Sarah Burris
April 26, 2009

UPDATE: Just in, team Activism2Go won!! Thanks so much for everyone's help. Hopefully we'll be on board with developing this application for campaigns this season!!

This weekend the Mixed Media team (the org I work for) went to StartUp Weekend in Kansas City. StartUp is a program where developers and tech folk come together to create something that is useful.

Josh and Karl came up with a great tool inspired by Barack Obama's iPhone App from his campaign. If you don't know about the iPhone App, it took your cell phone book and divided it up by state and them prioritized numbers by swing states. So you could call your friends and make sure they were voting for Obama.

Activism2Go took that to a whole new level - enabling any campaign or organization to let their volunteers sign into their website and receive a list of people who needed to be called for the phonebank. Gone are the days of paper lists, you could call from your home, office, car, anywhere and help phonebank for a cause all by installing this simple application on your iPhone, G1, and eventually Blackberry.

VOTE HERE for Activism2Go to be the best idea at StartupKC. You must vote between 5 and 7pm TODAY. See it in action here.

According to fellow Everyday Citizen blogger Joshua Dieker

"My team created a great new Campaign Management software system for smartphones. We have it up and running on iPhone and G1, and we hope to get it up on Blackberry within the next couple of weeks. It has phonebanking, canvassing, news and info, polling, and micro-donation capability, and it's an all around sweet ap.

We're looking for people to log into http://kansascity.startupweekend.com/ between 5 and 7 today, create an account, and vote for Activism2Go to win the prize this weekend. If we win, there's a very good chance we'll be able to connect with investors and actually move this software to market, but we need your help."

Published April 26, 2009 by Sarah Burris | Permalink | Tags: Business Technology

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