Some great "do's & don'ts" from Michael Moschella at the organizing.center. 

Here's the GOOD:

1) Catchy subject line - it got me to open it by creating what is called a "knowledge gap." 

2) Right off the bat it assumes I'm in the "us" group and contrasts that with the "they" of Bernie Sanders. This us vs. them messaging is called ingroup/outgroup and it is very powerful. 

3) When asking me for $17, the email justifies the ask with the claim, "what most supporters donate the first time." This is brilliant and it is referred to as "social proof." It sets a norm the reader subconsciously needs/wants to follow. 

4) The email is personalized, even in the red donate button image.

But, here's where the email FAILS BIG TIME:

1) It frames Bernie as the campaign with the momentum, and Hillary as the one losing out. People like to join up with winners, and "we're losing!!!" rarely changes behavior unless it's a life-or-death situation. This might have worked if it were the general election and Hillary were losing out to racist Donald Trump.

There's more and the whole thing is worth reading. Go read the rest.

Does it make sense to buy multiple similarly-sounding domain names to redirect to your site?

Nope. 

There is scant data to support the business case for buying or leasing additional, similarly-sounding URLs and redirecting them to your existing site. This activity does not improve your search ranking on Google. The only possible benefit is if someone were to actually type the URL into the address bar. And, people don't really do that, anymore. They click on links: links in Google, links on Facebook, links in an email, etc. If the link is broken, they immediately lose interest and move onto the next Facebook post (or whatever).

I believe your money would better be spent on web ads: Google Adwords, banner ads in the local paper, and Facebook.

The only two exceptions I can think of:

1. if you are running a behemoth of a campaign - like a presidential campaign. In that case, you definitely want to get the .org and .net, and also get permutations of the candidates name (hilaryclinton.com and hillaryclinton.com - with one and with two Ls). 

2. If you are running a business, pick up anything related that might someday become the URL of a competitor. 

When I see one of my clients post original content on their Facebook Fan page instead of on their Nation, you could fry an egg on the top of my head.

You have a wonderful NationBuilder site that you paid good money for. So why are posting your original content on Facebook? When you do that, your stealing people away from your Nation and sending them to Facebook! WHY? AAARRGGHHH!

This insanity needs to come to an immediate end!

You should never*  post original content on a third party, social-media website. The original content should be posted on YOUR website, and then SHARED on the social media, which drives traffic back to your site.

The only exceptions to this rule are 140-character tweets, which should be posted on twitter, video files (youtube/vimeo) and audio files (SoundCloud, BandCamp).  Anything else; stuff you write, images you create, stuff you receive and want to share: it belongs on your Nation FIRST and on Facebook, etc. VIA a link to your Nation. 

(also, oppo research should go in its own space, well away from yours, but you knew that already) 

Here is the procedure you should follow EVERY time you want to post content:

1. Go to your Admin dashboard. Then, go here:
   Admin dashboard > Website > [your blog] > Posts & subpages > New post.
2. Give it a neat Headline. Hit TAB and the slug will autofill (handy!). Change status to Published. Hit the yellow button.
3. Post your neat thing in the top window ("before the flip"). If it's long, put the first paragraph in the top window, and the rest in the bottom window ("after the flip"). Hit the yellow save button. 
4. click on the link next to your logo - it should say, http://www.your-site.com/blog-post-title (blog-post-title is whatever the title is of your new blog post).
5. Take a look at your new blog post. Revel in it's awesomeness.
6. SHARE it with the Facebook button. Tweet it with the twitter button. Put it on the GooglePlus with the G+1 button. 
7. People will see the link and follow it back to your site! YAY!

If you have social media other than the big three (Facebook, Twitter, G+), then here are some extra steps:

1. Copy the link to the new content on your Nation. 
2. Go to the Social Media in question. 
3. Post the link. Share it. 

That's it. Done. See how easy that is? 

PLEASE FOLLOW THIS PROCEDURE. EVERY TIME.

Don't let a campaign volunteer design your logo. Don't let one design your website, either. Their hearts are in the right place, but you really do get what you pay for. 

Convio is massively sophisticated PaaS (Platform as a Service) and offers hundreds of features for organizations to administer their membership. Just about every big organization with a big membership uses Convio.

During my stint as Webmaster for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, we used Convio to email newsletters and "asks" (solicitations for donations), membership services (petition drives, mostly) and selling tickets to events, among other things. We used Convio but we didn't like it. The mere mention of "Convio" would produce scowls or cringes among those who had to use it, none bigger than on the face of the Executive Director who didn't like writing massive yearly checks to Convio.