Weekend Reading: Municipal Big Data, Social Media Demographics and a Big Week for Clients

At cStreet Campaigns we’re always scouring the web for the latest trends in campaigns, digital organizing, gamification and big data. Each weekend we’ll round up the best of the web and post it here. Enjoy.

Looking for ways to better integrate digital advocacy acts with fundraising? NPEngage has some tips in Join the ‘Advocacy Action Then Donation Ask’ Bandwagon [NPEngage]

NationBuilder & Causes alum Joe Green is founding a new DC based digital advocacy organization with Mark Zuckerberg and others [All Things D]

The NYT looks at Big Data for municipal government in The Mayor’s Geek Squad [New York Times]

We blogged about a couple big announcements for clients: United Voice won their Big Steps campaigns [Blog], Fair Work Saskatchewan launched with a unique social call-to-share targeting the Premier's Twitter account [Blog] and we looked at using Game Mechanics in NationBuilder [Blog].

Ever wonder about the demographics of the social web? Community Organizer 2.0 looks into Connecting and Finding Fans: The Demographics of Social Media Users [Community Organizer 2.0]

NationBuilder relaunched their community support area and blogged about it, Using the new support page [NationBuilder]

Here’s a great campaign video from our friends at United Voice Queensland: