Sunday, December 20, 2009

CitizenSpeak E-Advocacy Service Received Webby Award Official Honoree Distinction

Free e-Advocacy account - declared as MoveOn for the blow of us - acclaimed by arch awards anatomy for website design.

Providence, RI -- The Webby Awards, the arch all-embracing account for web sites, today accustomed CitizenSpeak (http://www.citizenspeak.org) as an Official Honoree, a acumen awarded to sites for their excellence, eyes and above quality. Described as MoveOn.org for the blow of us, CitizenSpeak provides a chargeless and easy-to-use email advancement account for grassroots organizations.

Using CitizenSpeak, borough organizations and alone activists – which may be just a brace humans acclimation about a kitchen table - can barrage able email advancement campaigns to brainwash assembly and targeted decision-makers about their causes. Activists above the country accept created accounts on CitizenSpeak adopting acquaintance and architecture constituencies in their communities about issues such as education, discrimination, bread-and-butter injustices and the environment.

Recent CitizenSpeak campaigns launched by bounded organizations include: "Say No To HR4437: Enforcement First agency Immigrant Families Last," and "East Side Public Education Coalition" launched in acknowledgment to the closing of a bounded average academy in Providence, RI. To apprentice about these and added CitizenSpeak campaigns, amuse appointment http://citizenspeak.org/citizenspeak.

Called the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York Times, the Webby is the arch all-embracing accolade anniversary arete in Web design, creativity, account and functionality. “The Webby Awards ceremoniousness the outstanding web sites that are ambience the standards for the internet,” said Tiffany Shlain, architect and agent of The Webby Awards. “CitizenSpeak’s Official Honoree alternative is a attestation to the skill, ingenuity, and eyes of its creators.”

“We’re captivated to accept been called as an Official Honoree by The Webby Awards,” said Jo Lee, co-founder and administrator of CitizenSpeak. “At the affection of CitizenSpeak is a abstruse acceptance in capitalism adequate and maintained by a able noncombatant society. Our ambition is to advice grassroots activists get their choir heard by accouterment able online accoutrement at the association level.”

CitizenSpeak was created by Jo Lee and Pablo Calamera, advised by Development Seed, complete by George Hotelling and fabricated accessible by the abutment of the CivicSpace community.

The cipher that runs CitizenSpeak is accessible as a chargeless and accessible antecedent Drupal bore at http://drupal.org/node/32189. The bore has been acclimated by calm and all-embracing organizations including Planned Parenthood and Public Campaign to brainwash communities about important causes.

About CitizenSpeak (http://www.citizenspeak.org):
CitizenSpeak is a non-profit that provides grassroots organizations and bounded activists with an easy-to-use, able e-advocacy service. Since its inception, CitizenSpeak has accurate organizations from all above the country, including academic organizations with continued appellation goals, as able-bodied as individuals application CitizenSpeak for ancient issue-oriented actions. The cipher that runs CitizenSpeak is accessible as a chargeless and accessible antecedent Drupal module. CitizenSpeak is based in Providence, RI.

About The Webby Awards (http://www.webbyawards.com):
Called the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York Times, the Webby is the arch all-embracing accolade anniversary arete in Web design, creativity, account and functionality. Established in 1996, the 10th Annual Webby Awards accustomed over 5,500 entries from all 50 states and over 40 countries worldwide.

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