Abstract: An online platform provides group purchase of advocacy or other services. In some embodiments, the platform further provides one or more of a social networking address book, a crowd-sourced vote-counting mechanism for legislative issues, and support on target selection, tactic prioritization, fundraising, supporter recruitment, campaign marketing, and content creation and aggregation. According to some embodiments, an online purchasing platform may be realized as a computer-implemented method for funding group purchasing using social media. The method may comprise identifying, using a selection module, a first target item for purchase, soliciting funds online, using a solicitation module, for the purchase of the first target item, accepting, using a collection module, funds online from a plurality of sources, and determining, using the collection module, whether funds accepted online are sufficient to purchase the first target item.

Abstract: An online communications platform provides an online social networking address book. In some embodiments, the platform further provides one or more of group purchase of advocacy or other services, a crowd-sourced vote-counting mechanism for legislative issues, and support on target selection, tactic prioritization, fundraising, supporter recruitment, campaign marketing, and content creation and aggregation. According to some embodiments, an online communication platform may be realized as a computer-implemented method for communicating using social networks. The method may comprise specifying content for a message using a blast tool, gathering specified contacts from a plurality of social networks, and associating the message with the specified contacts. The method may further comprise formatting, using a formatting module, the digital content separately for each of a plurality of social networks, wherein the formatting is capable of altering the digital content based on a social network.

Abstract: An online advocacy platform provides one or more of a crowd-sourced vote-counting mechanism for legislative issues, support on target selection, tactic prioritization, fundraising, supporter recruitment, campaign marketing, and content creation and aggregation. In some embodiments, the platform further provides one or more of group purchase of advocacy services and a social networking address book. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, computer-implemented methods for advocacy efforts using social networks may comprise providing an online site hosting information associated with an advocacy effort to influence a decision of a decision maker, providing, using a strategy calculator module, a plurality of advocacy actions available to influence the decision maker, receiving input selecting an advocacy action from an online user interface of the online site, and performing, using a fulfillment module, the selected advocacy action using one or more electronic actions to influence the decision maker.