As long as there has been
a CODEPINK, there
has been a CODEPINK
website.
That first day in October, 2002, we registered
CODEPINK4Peace.com
and heralded it with a press conference. Our web
capacity has been on a steep climb ever since.
Pilar and Michelle Perez designed the original
site in HTML. Larry Eason, who had worked with
Jodie Evans when she ran Jerry Brown's presidential
campaign, saved the day by introducing us to a
user-friendly platform, Kintera, and an easier
to communicate address: codepinkalert.org. Lorinda
Earl, who we met at a march, became our first
webmistress.
Since then, our ever-expanding supporter base
and round-the-clock, round-the-world actions have
made web-based communication tools all the more
imperative.
In 2005, the CODEPINK
website began to offer more networking tools that
enabled participatory campaigns built around local
CODEPINK communities.
As a result, our local groups could build their
individual websites, upload blogs, comments, photos
and reports on the national website, and access
our email list for targeted campaigns within their
hometowns.
Armed with these new tools, we launched our first
micro-site in 2005: ONEMILLIONREASONS
to end the war in Iraq. This successful drive
spurred our decision to launch further campaign-driven
micro sites, including Women Say No to War, Listen
Hillary, Give Peace a Vote, and more recently,
Don't Buy Bush's War. These micro sites have been
highly effective, but we decided it was time to
revamp the original site design and structure
and integrate more intuitive and user-friendly
navigation.
In 2007, we launched a new
national website -- a dynamic mix of form
and function -- which served our activist groups
worldwide.
In 2008, we geared up for the national
elections by creating codepinkaction.org
and several corresponding micro-sites.
In early 2009, to better serve our overseas/Middle-East/
South Asian campaigns, we revamped and redesigned
womensaynotowar.org.
In late 2010, we decided it would be
timely to add new social networking tools to the
national site and re-organize our campaigns according
to the top issues that mattered most to CODEPINK
peacemakers. The
new site was launched in early January, 2011.
CODEPINK receives the 2008 Best
Microsite Progressive Source Award!
July, 2008 --
Progressive Source Communications, the New
York-based public interest digital marketing company,
announced the winners of the Second Annual Progressive
Source Award today. This year, CODEPINK's
microsite: Don't
Buy Bush's War won the Judges'
Choice Awards Best Microsite.The Progressive
Source Awards are sponsored by Progressive Source
Communications to provide a repository of best
practices that can instruct and inspire progressive
organizations everywhere.
CODEPINK receives the 2007 MOST
POPULAR Best Homepage Progressive Source Award!
Thank you for your votes!
July, 2007 -- The Progressive Source Awards folks
searched more than a thousand progressive advocacy
and nonprofit Web sites to select nominees. They
nominated CODEPINK's
website for its use of the web to effectively
spread our message with provocative videos, an
arresting homepage and informative resources to
motivate, educate and inspire. A “Most Popular
Award” winner was also selected for each award
category based upon votes of visitors to this
site. More...
