Found another company similar to Capitol Advantage. The software GetActive is owned by the company Convio. It provides a similar service as Capwiz, but with a different interface and based on the little I've played with it, may be a little less powerful and have access to less information. You can see examples of their tool at StopIranWar.com, Defconamerica.org, and The Humane Society of the United Sates.
Congress.org (run by Capitol Advantage) has some free banners people can add to their sites. The banners link to Congress.org's database of lawmakers, allowing users to quickly look up their representatives. They also have another banner that lets people look up media outlets that serve their area. You can see examples at ethanzuckerman.com.
The ACLU has its own letter writing tool.
I still haven't seen a functionality in any of these where users can share their letters with one another.
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Patrick T. Lafferty:
All of those tools are useful for advocating those positions, but they don't allow you to advocate YOUR position, whoever YOU are, WHEREEVER you are, to WHOMEVER you want. I think that is (one of) the key points of differentiation that you guys need to focus on in your idea.
Posted by Patrick T. Lafferty | June 29, 2007 1:46 PM
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Posted on June 29, 2007 13:46
Courtney Farr:
From what I've seen so far, I do think our idea stands apart from everything else.
Posted by Courtney Farr | June 29, 2007 4:33 PM
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Posted on June 29, 2007 16:33