October 15th Kick Off of Advocacy Users Group

Bev Stanton

We are pleased to announce the first meeting of the DC Advocacy Users Group!



This is a quarterly meeting organized *by* blackbaud clients, *for* clients so that we can share best practices, learn more about the product, and provide blackbaud with feedback for improvements and feature requests among other things. The agenda for our kickoff meeting is below. Hope you can make it!



R.S.V.P. here:



https://www.eventbrite.com/e/advocacy-users-group-blackbaud-tickets-18655376734



AGENDA



Thursday, October 15, 2015 from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM (EDT) 



Blackbaud DC Office - 1255 23rd St. NW. Ste. 650. Washington, DC 20037



And also via webex!





1.       Welcome and introductions



2.       Purpose of the Advocacy Users Group and vision



                - logistics – frequency, location, webex

                - Advocacy Users Group in the Community - https://community.blackbaud.com/groups/home/23 

                - what advocacy topics are of interest? Quick brainstorm

                - Survey

                - Product Ideas - https://luminateonline.ideas.aha.io/ideas 



3.       Advocacy Deliverability and Communication With Congress update



4.       New Advocacy features in the latest Luminate Online release



5.       Moving Targets from Yea to Nay, Nay to Yea, and so on

a.       Food and Water Watch

b.      AARP

c.       National Audubon Society

5.       Ideas – group review of Advocacy Ideas



6.      Wrap-up

                a.   Advocacy content at bbcon

                b.  Advocacy content throughout 2015

                c.  Next meeting – Q1 2016, when and how?



7.      Thanks for attending!