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I see the strongest use coming out of this integration for NPO’s is the ability  to track your donation campaigns through Salesforce. If you have attempted to  run a CPC campaign to increase your donations, to this point you needed to use  AdWords standard tracking to measure the ads performance, then look at your  fundraising stats and try to do some type of comparison. With this integration  you can do much better analysis of your fundraising campaign to better target  your keyword ads.

I have decided to stay home today and recover from three straight nights with no sleep and 20 hours of travel back and forth from DC to NY and back yesterday. While I sit here drinking Mimosas and eating scrambled eggs, I have decided to upgrade this blog to WordPress 2.2, otherwise called WordPress Getz.

I am home this morning waiting for Comcast to come fix the internet, so i decided to play around with the new Widget tool that is part of WP 2.2 core code. It is an AJAX heavy tool allowing you to drag and drop what "widgets" you would like to be in your side bar.

My critique:

1) It is really easy to use, but there is a limitied number of widgets to select from.

A lot of numbers I have heard before:

1) Internet users are more diverse - more men and more women, more people of color
2) 15% of internet users have watched political video
3) People under 35 see internet as important as TV
4) Teens see the internet as integral part of their lifestyle

What impact will Youtube and user generated content have on politics going forward? Dr. Schmidt of Google gave some great examples of how user generated content is changing the political process overseas. I did not know that in Bahrain's past election cycle that there were residents using Google Earth to take pics of the acres upon acres of land taken by the royal family. Nor did I know about China's Great Firewall that has been used to block video content from web pages from countries outside of the country.