Last week our company, ActivateDirect.com, was proud to sponsor the "Technology Symposium on the Rise of Digital Direct Democracy" at the 2010 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy held at U.C. Hastings in San Francisco. As part of the Tech Symposium, I served on a really exciting panel of political technology experts from around the world discussing the impacts of the Internet, and particularly social media, on direct democracy.  more...

There are a lot of services out there offering one part of your solution.  One piece here, another piece there, and you’ve got your self a site – sort of.  It’s easy enough to put up a site that looks good enough to pass the approval process, but to build a site that acts the way you need it to is a different story.   more...

One thing you've probably discovered in your social media efforts is that effective social media engagement requires the coordination of a great many disparate technologies. Activate Direct greatly simplifies social media engagement by deeply integrating the leading social networks seemlessly into our platform.   more...