Capitol Advantage - Online - Capwiz

Capwiz Email Relationship Mgmt Election Guides Packages

The most popular feature of Capwiz is the ability to quickly publish an Alert that draws attention to a specific issue and makes it easy for a site user to learn about the issue and take action. With Capwiz you can choose to publish One-Click or Two-Click Alerts.

Contact the Government
Capwiz connects people with elected officials, agencies and organizations. Users may e-mail members of Congress, the President, other government officials or any recipient of your choosing. Find members by ZIP Code or name search. Users may send pre-written messages that you set up in the Site Control Center, or compose their own messages. Features include:

ZIP Code Search - for locating officials on local, state and/or federal level
Four Unique Styles of Letters - different avenues for contact
Votes and Bills in Congress
Target Letters to Anyone - agencies, corporations, etc.
Print / Fax Option - messages Americans write to elected officials
Call Manager - Connects activists to your targets by syncing your Capwiz site with the phone system.
Mail Stats - analyze your effectiveness
C-mail Standard - ensures only genuine constituents reach elected officials

Congressional Guide
A comprehensive and detailed guide to the 108th Congress with easy-to-use search capabilities. Users may access information about members, including photos, contact information, occupations, e-mail, phone numbers, etc. Also included are committee staff, rosters and congressional leadership information.

Member Information - with votes, contact info, etc.
Congressional Staff - displays up to 14 positions
Committee Info - rosters, jurisdictions, Web sites
Congressional Officers - phone numbers and more
Printer Friendly - printable pages
Color Photos - consistent sizing
Congressional E-mail Addresses - current and complete

List Manager
Contact your supporters online when you need to activate them on an issue! A form on your Capwiz site allows users to sign-up quickly. The information is accessed by you via your password-protected site control center. Using the site control center, subscribers can query the database of information and create multiple lists for e-mailing.

Everyone who signs up is entered into a searchable database that you can access via your Capwiz site control center. You can create lists by sorting the main database by a variety of fields including, name, state, e-mail domain (i.e., @aol.com) and congressional district.

Bill Status/Sponsor Track
Allows visitors to your site to see your "key legislation" and tracks cosponsor status for your key bills with daily updates (optional). This feature also includes...

Custom Messages - for cosponsors and non-cosponsors
Enter YOUR OWN Bill Descriptions

Bill Note

Sends you an e-mail anytime a sponsor is added or dropped from a bill in your Capwiz site. Also notifies you when floor action takes place on a bill or if it is referred to committee or conference.

Votes Displayed
You choose the votes that you wish to display on your ZIP search results page and linked to the members' bio pages. This feature also includes...

Optional Score Column - show if they voted with you
Enter YOUR OWN Vote Descriptions

Tell a Friend
Allows a user to send to one or more friends an e-mail with a link to any page on your Capwiz site, including news, alerts, votes and other legislative-related information. "Tell-A-Friend" icons are placed throughout your Capwiz service.

Portable Advocacy Sticker
This powerful tool helps drive traffic to your site from other sites, or from other parts of your own. It allows users to easily copy HTML code that will allow them to have a ZIP code search on their site. The search results page, however, is on YOUR site.

Voter Scorecard
Using this feature you may designate votes to be displayed in a scorecard listing every member of Congress, how they voted on each bill, and the frequency (displayed as a percentage) each member supported your position on the series of votes.

Contact the Media
Capwiz enables users to extend their reach beyond Capitol Hill to the media. Users may send original or customized e-mails, faxes and printed letters to members of the media, based on city, state, type of media, etc.

Congress Today
Congress Today provides floor and committee schedules for the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, updated every day. Includes Searchable Committee Schedules.

Site Control Center
The password-protected site control center has an easy-to-use format that allows you to control and update the content of your Capwiz site. Capwiz reporting tools in the site control center include E-mail statistics and usage statistics.


	INFORM... Capwiz provides your organization's supporters with thousands of pages of information about national, state and local leaders, their staff members, their offices, federal agencies, the Supreme Court, the executive branch, candidates for office, and more. If you want information about this nation's political life, look no farther than Capwiz. ENGAGE... Once informed, your members are offered myriad ways to engage in the political and electoral process. Want to ensure your members are registered to vote? Capwiz Election offers state-specific registration forms as well as information about polling locations, what is needed at the polls to vote, and so on. If you are interested in transforming your online constituency into a viable political force, Capwiz provides all the tools you'll need. ACTIVATE! The most important step in the political process is, of course, to get your members to actually take a desired action in support of your organization or industry. Want your online community to sound off against a piece of legislation damaging to your organization? Capwiz lets you easily create action alerts and letters to lawmakers and your members to send those letters as constituent communications certain to get their elected officials' attention. Informed and engaged, Capwiz establishes that final connection between your members and their elected leaders.