Tim Fullerton

Like everyone else, I generally get hundreds of email messages a day, but two stood out that came within ten minutes of each other. Let’s start with the first from Vice President Al Gore.

On March 21st, I’ll hand-deliver your message to Washington when I testify at Congressional hearings on the climate crisis.

Can you commit to finding 10 friends to send a message to Congress demanding immediate action?

Ask them to visit:

http://algore.com/cards.html

Does this sound like someone who is NOT running for President? Most online communications experts know this type of message is a strong way to build up ones list. Why else would Al be so interested in growing his list. Clearly asking people to contact their own Representatives would be a more effective way to have an impact, but this message clearly is for list building. I don’t think we’ve heard the last of Mr. Gore in the 2008 Presidential race.

The other is from Al’s former boss, President Bill Clinton. Only this isn’t about him, it’s about Hillary.

In less than six days, thousands of people — old friends and new ones — have risen to the occasion and donated over $800,000. Those financial resources will help fund critical organizing and campaign activities in the weeks ahead.

This email is important because it shows that Hillary is not only getting support from high dollar donors within the Democratic Party, but also people contributing $10, $25, $50. This is significant as Senator Obama and John Edwards are counting on the “Netroots” to overcome Hillary. We’ll see how this plays out over the coming months.

Hi everyone,

Welcome to my new website dedicated to online communications. It’s going to take me a few days to get up and running, but I will be posting daily updates on issues ranging from how the Presidential candidates are using the Internet to gain supporters and money, to how bad my commute was on the T (let’s hope those are few and far between). I’ll also talk about some great examples of organizations using the internet/online communications to further their cause. I will also be providing reports from the Nonprofit Technology Conference in April and the Convio Users Conference in October. Hopefully you will find this a useful resource.

Thanks for reading and wish me luck!