e-advocates Launches e-Advocates Institute

e-advocates, the nations premier, full-service Internet and grassroots advocacy firm, is launching the e-advocates Institute (e-aI), which will offer a new line of services: e-advocacy strategic training seminars and custom training programs for organizations that want to train their public affairs staff and advocates. Alan Rosenblatt, Ph.D. will direct this new line of services. Dr. Rosenblatt adds his fifteen-plus years of experience in the field on politics and the Internet to the industry leading e-advocates team headed by Pam Fielding and Nicole Duritz. Drawing from their combined experiences and the additional support from sister company Capitol Advantage, makers of the market leading product CapWiz, e-advocates now offers the highest quality, expert training available to any organization interested in using the Internet to drive its advocacy program into the 21st Century.

(PRWEB) May 19, 2003 -advocates, the nations premier, full-service Internet and grassroots advocacy firm, is launching the e-advocates Institute (e-aI), which will offer a new line of services: e-advocacy strategic training seminars and custom training programs for organizations that want to train their public affairs staff and advocates. Alan Rosenblatt, Ph.D. will direct this new line of services. Dr. Rosenblatt adds his fifteen-plus years of experience in the field on politics and the Internet to the industry leading e-advocates team headed by Pam Fielding and Nicole Duritz. Drawing from their combined experiences and the additional support from sister company Capitol Advantage, makers of the market leading product CapWiz, e-advocates now offers the highest quality, expert training available to any organization interested in using the Internet to drive its advocacy program into the 21st Century.

e-aI is offering its first two seminars in the coming few weeks. On May 22, 2003, they will offer Creating the Go To" Issue Website. On June 9, 2003, they will offer Integrating Online and Offline Issue Campaigns. Both seminars will be held at the CSIS Conference Center, 1800 K Street, NW, in Washington, DC. Online registration is available at www.e-advocates.com.

Many organizations are developing in-house programs for using the Internet to bolster their public affairs programs. e-advocates new training program is designed to give those responsible for managing these programs, and colleagues who can benefit from these programs to support their own work, strategic training so they can get the most out of their e-advocacy tools. According to Dr. Rosenblatt, In the final analysis, e-advocacy tools are only valuable when used in a broadly conceived strategic plan that effectively influences the political process and public policy. These training programs are designed to open wider the eyes of public affairs professionals using these tools to their vast potential."

Dr. Rosenblatt, the new Director of Training Programs, is a long-time veteran in the field of e-advocacy. He is a frequent lecturer and has published articles on cyberpolitics for many years. As a professor at George Mason University, he was one of the very first in the nation to introduce the study of Internet politics to university students. He taught The Politics of Cyberspace for six years, starting in the spring of 1995-less than a year after Netscape first brought the World Wide Web to the masses. In 1997, Dr. Rosenblatt was part of the core team that founded Media Bureau Networks (MBN), a streaming media industry leader based in Philadelphia. Under his project management as Washington Bureau Chief, MBN Webcasted live coverage from the 2000 Republican and Democratic Presidential Nominating Conventions. For the past two years, Dr. Rosenblatt served as Vice President for Online Advocacy Services at Stateside Associates. He was responsible for creating and managing the first practice in the nation exclusively devoted to using the Internet as a tool to shape state and local public policy. He also wrote The Online Advocate, a monthly newsletter on e-advocacy strategy.

The new training programs at e-advocates round out the firms service offerings. Whether you need ongoing consulting and e-advocacy program management or some early guidance and vision for an in-house program, e-advocates provides the services needed to make e-advocacy more effective. For more information, visit e-advocates website at www.e-advocates.com.

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e-advocates is the nation's premier, full-service Internet and grassroots advocacy consulting firm backed by the commitment and expertise of Capitol Advantage, the nation's top provider of cyberlobbying technology. e-advocates helps organizations harness the power of the Internet to achieve legislative and political objectives, offering clients a full range of advocacy consulting services. Our campaigns generate online grassroots action and off-line legislative wins.