Introducing mobile All Things Reform! Now, you can access our full blog posts, including action alerts, by SMS on your mobile. When you are away from your desk, just go to the mobile website URL:
http://allthingsreform.mofuse.mobi/
And, for your convenience, there is also a Click 2 Call link to the Capitol Switchboard for taking action on those alerts. When calling the Capitol Switchboard (202-224-3121, not toll-free), just ask for your US Representative or either of your US Senators and they will forward your call to their Washington DC office. Also, there is our poetspirit Twitter feed from the mobile All Things Reform homepage.
Now, receiving action alerts and calling your representatives just got easier!
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Showing posts with label All Things Reform. Show all posts
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Mobile All Things Reform - get your action alerts and call your representatives away from your desk
Thursday, May 01, 2008
All Things Reform Netvibes Universe public page
I'm excited to share a new place to communicate and read the latest political news headlines: All Things Reform Netvibes Universe page. It is free and open to the public to use 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week. I've spent quite a bit of time adding/dropping modules, rearranging them, changing colors, module sizes, etc.; I consider our public page now out of "beta" stage.
The purpose of All Things Reform's Netvibes is to encourage free and easy ways to communicate online to share the government reform message, and to easily keep up with the latest news headlines from the best sources.
Communications features:
- a "Wall" module to leave short messages on the page
- Meebo.com Rooms chat with video player module
- Meebo.com Instant Messaging module for several apps
- David Weller's Facebook.com page module
- David Weller (poetspirit) Twitter.com posts timeline
- Webware.com internet technology news
Political news features:
- Activist reminders
- All Things Reform action alerts
- GovTrack.us introduced legislation
- OpenCongress.org bill information
- washingtonpost.com news
- POLITICO.com news
Of course, the internet is always evolving with the introduction of new technologies, so I reserve the need to update the page as required. However, it is now ready to use at your leisure to help you in your political reform activism. Enjoy!
Sphere: Related ContentTuesday, April 08, 2008
Announcing the Congress Reform team lineup!
Well, today is the big day, when All Things Reform's Facebook has determined the current lineup for our Congressional Reform team.
We have two "starting" levels: the All-Stars, and the practice squad. Here are the lineups:
Congress Reform All-Stars
- US Rep. Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi
- US Sen. Russ Feingold
- US Sen. Majority Whip Dick Durbin
- US Rep. Jeff Flake
- US Sen. Jim DeMint
- US Rep. Dennis Kucinich
- US Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
- US Sen. Ted Stevens
- US Rep. Jack Murtha
- US Sen. Larry Craig
- US Rep. William Jefferson
- US Sen. John Ensign
Monday, March 24, 2008
New citizen's Political Calendar on All Things Reform
We have a new Political Calendar at the top of this blog in the left column. It is a reminder for the average citizen on what to look forward to in Washington DC over the next year or so. If you click on a link, you will be taken to more information about the particular special day(s).
It will of course be continuously updated and improved with political dates of use to the US citizen.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
All Things Reform now on Facebook!
In our continuing quest to build an activist community for government reform, All Things Reform now has a page at popular social networking site Facebook. It's at All Things Reform Facebook. Please, visit and say hi. I hope your stay is entertaining and helpful.
Sphere: Related ContentTuesday, November 20, 2007
A sample report from one of this blog's database lists
This is a campaign finance report of U.S. Representative Neugebauer; it is derived from free links in this blog's "Campaign Finance Databases" in the left column (CQ's Moneyline database is fee-based). It is just one thing you can do for your own representatives; you can also search their campaign finances, government finances, ethics violations and other news. Then, cull from your reports information that may be useful in your communications, and, ultimately, in your votes next election day.
U.S. Representative Randy Neugebauer (R-TX): campaign finance data links
Details at http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?CID=N00026043&cycle=2006
opensecrets.org
Candidates
Neugebauer 2005-2006 campaign finance totals
Details at http://www.politicalbase.com/people/randy-neugebauer/9822/money/
Political Base
People: Money
Neugebauer campaign finance totals and data
Details at http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_detail/H4TX19102/
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Candidates
Individual records of Neugebauer: Contributions Made by This Candidate's Committees, Committees Who Gave to This Candidate, Individuals Who Gave to This Candidate
Details at http://www.publicintegrity.org/consultants/list.aspx?act=canDetail&id=H4TX19102
The Center for Public Integrity
Consultants
Amount spent on campaign consultants, 2003-2004: $2,500,303 Sphere: Related Content
Friday, November 09, 2007
Contact your representatives personally, for added impact
Just a note on this experiment in citizen activism that is All Things Reform. I understand that, if you take action from any public interest group's website, you may be added to their email database. I have done this for years now, and I therefore often get action alerts and other information by email.
However, now that All Things Reform copies much of the alert information for its blog posts, you can avoid privacy issues by avoiding contact with the public interest groups. Just read the blog post, and if you want to take action, just contact your representative personally, by telephone, email, postage mail or personal visit. In addition to keeping personal privacy, this personal method may make a more powerful statement by communicating privately with your elected official.
I can't supply this blog without information from these hard-working public interest groups issuing these alerts. However, if you want to stay off of their databases, use All Things Reform and communicate directly with your representatives. Use the widget in this blog's left column to find your own representatives' contact addresses, or use Yahoo! Capwiz.
Monday, October 22, 2007
The left column tools on this blog are now easier to use
I have further organized the link lists in the left column to make it easier to follow. The "Government Reform-Related Organizations" is now divided into three lists: "Electoral Reform Organizations", "Campaign Finance Organizations" and "Government Finance Organizations". This will also allow the user to see the correlations in the "Campaign Finance Databases" and "Government Finance Databases" lists below.
And don't forget another powerful tool for the citizen researcher: the search box for the three "Organization" lists-- for example, type in your Congressman's name to see articles from the different orgs. with his name mentioned; the more detailed your query, the more relevant your results. Follow that up with any of the "Databases" for more details. The search box also checks this blog's posts, and all incoming links on them.
These tools give you great background information for your next letter to your representative, or your next letter to the editor, be it your hometown paper or TIME magazine!
UPDATE: We are having a technical problem with the search box; I can only wait on Blogger to make the needed corrections.
Monday, October 01, 2007
All Things Reform now on Squidoo!
Squidoo has provided All Things Reform a "lens", Reform Your Government, to share all of the things we have to offer. We are always looking for ways to spread the word about this blog-- about grassroots reform activism-- and we are grateful to Squidoo for providing this opportunity.
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