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Voter Activation Network Teams with TargetSmart Communications to Launch “SmartVAN”

Somerville, Mass., July 12, 2010 – Voter Activation Network (VAN) has teamed up with TargetSmart Communications to offer VAN’s powerful organizing technology platform and TargetSmart’s nationwide voter file and consumer data as a single convenient, integrated package.

Voter Activation Network Releases Canvassing Application for iPhone and iPod Touch

Somerville, Mass., February 17, 2010 – Voter Activation Network (VAN), the company that revolutionized door-to-door canvassing through the use of Palm Pilots in the early 2000s, has announced the wide release of MiniVAN Touch, a robust mobile canvassing application for iPhone and iPod Touch.

“In 2010, we are going to see a dramatic shift in the way political campaigns talk to voters,” said Mark L. Sullivan, founder of Voter Activation Network. “Significant work is going to shift from desktop computers to SmartPhones.”

Voter Activation Network Acquires New Union Work Systems

Somerville, Mass., November 1, 2009 – Voter Activation Network (VAN), the world’s largest provider of political organizing software, has acquired New Union Work Systems (NUWS), the makers of Organizer’s Toolbox, a software package widely used by union organizers.

“By combining the deep expertise behind Organizer’s Toolbox with the power and scalability of the VAN platform, we expect to deliver the best available technology to union organizers on a huge scale,” said Mark Sullivan, founder of Voter Activation Network. “We will be prepared to support a vast expansion of organizing once Congress passes the badly needed labor law reform supported by President Obama.”