These pages contain brief profiles of software and apps for digital campaigning. They have been selected based on suitability for the course.
Campaigning platforms
These platforms provide a complete package solution for online advocacy.
Apps to help curate information from other online sources.
As the name suggests, apps to manage signup, production and distribution of electronic newsletters.
There are many tools for managing events – advertsiing, signup, etc. These are just a few.
These sites support receipting of donations from your web presence. It saves you having to setup merchant payment services of your own.
This is both a skill to develop and a tool. The course itself introduces data visualization and infographics and these tools help you create the output for you web presence.
E.g. Twitter – you get the idea.
Various opinions as to effectiveness with those in positions of power or influence but they also have value in building up a constituency to whom you can appeal for other purposes, such as events.
Can be useful to test aspects of your campaign, build an evidence base. Be wary of limitations (validity, integrity) in the online space.
To get your message out there.
Apps to track who’s talking about you, your issues, etc.
Stats on visits to your site and some analysis.
Platforms providing hosting and templates, e.g. WordPress, WIX, etc.