For Women’s Advocacy Day we’re using Planned Parenthood’s online advocacy account. For last year’s Advocacy Day we tried a simple “e-mail your legislators and send us and Verla Insko a copy” and found that really didn’t work. LOTS of people e-mailed Verla, but didn’t bother to put their *own* legislators on the To: line…

So, systems like CapWiz or Groundspring.Org’s AdvocacyNow are worth their price in the ability to track messages and make sure they are delivered correctly.

On the other hand, having the coalition use one of its members accounts does raise questions. At what point does it make sense for the coalition to have its own account — one that it could “loan” to smaller member organizations as a definite member benefit?