Impact of Advocacy Campaigns

[Richard Campbell]

Interesting results of a poll of MP's on advocacy campaigns. I expect
the results with MLA's and city councillors would be similar.

http://e-politics.ca/

Some of the key points:

- The more personal the communications, the better
- Meetings are good
- Personal e-mails are better than form e-mails
- E-mail is slightly more effective than snail mail letters and much
more effective than faxes
- Facebook groups are used to gauge levels of support
- The quantity of correspondence is used to judge levels of support
and to priorities issues.
- They are much more likely to pay attention to constituents as
opposed to non-constituents
- A campaign is more effective the more kinds of communications are
used (media, facebook, petitions, meetings, form e-mails)

Bottom line is keep contacting your elected representatives.

Richard