how to create your organization's profile on countable
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How To Create Your Organization’s Profile
On Countable.us
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Claiming Your Public Profile
FOLLOW THESE 4 SIMPLE STEPS TO SET UP YOUR PROFILE.
Create your organization’s profile with the username of your choice. You can us your full name (our recommendation) or an abbreviation.To make your votes public, you must explain why people should vote yea or nay on a bill by writing a pro or con opinion.
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Create a new account 1
•Go To Countable.us and in the upper right corner select “LOG IN” •At the bottom of the new popup window, select “New user? Sign Up”
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Create a new account 1
•Use the real name of your advocacy, legislation, or communications contact person.•We will send all communications to this email.•Choose a password.
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•Enter your organization’s zip code to choose who your votes are sent to. We’re thinking about changing this. What do you want: no messages sent? All of congress? You can pick which reps? Give us feedback!
•For now, your org’s votes go to these reps. People who vote on your bills send messages to their own representatives.
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Click on your My Votes tab to set up your profile2
•Profile picture: your logo works well.•Username: your full org name or abbreviate. This determines your Public URL, too!•Bio: share your mission or advocacy priorities.
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Edit Settings in the upper right to finish setting up your profile2
•Add links to everything you want to share with the Countable community!
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Vote on bills
•Review your profile to make sure it is the way you want it.
•Click thru to begin voting on bills.
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Get voting!3
•Vote Yea or Nay on bills.•Add your opinion to explain your vote and make it public.
Votes are private until you add an opinion. Once you save an opinion, it will be added to your public profile. Votes with an opinion are public!
To make your vote private again, just delete the text of your opinion.
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Share your Public Profile Page.4
•Share your public URL with your supporters, the public, fellow Countable users and your representatives.
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DONE
You're done! Now get your supporters voting!
THANK YOU