Who are we and where did the idea of CauseBOOK come from?

Those are two very fair questions.

We're 30-year veteran developers of patented web marketing technologies and to be plain about it, we're pretty good at it.

But we are not just "techies", we are techies who happen to be long-time Constitutional Conservatives and because we had the knowledge, resources, and passion for certain nonprofit causes and advocacies, we turned our attention towards the internet and social media about 15 years ago.

And we never stopped and the mission grew - we would initiate and run the Stop Child Porn On Facebook and Red Envelope Day Campaigns with millions of Followers. "CauseACTION" would be born and we have since sent nearly a billion emails for our Conservative cause and nonprofit friends in the Prolife, Sexual Assault Prevention and Gold Star Military Family communities and dozens of Conservative and Republican Congressional and Presidential campaigns... all of which led to a very active blog with some 200,000 very engaged Conservative Subscribers at "CauseACTION". 

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In short, we love the art and science of messaging and new technology put to purpose. That has been our craft for forty years.

But messaging and digital marketing comes in several forms. Over the years we would involve ourselves and learn still more, about the other media "channels". All of it, part of what we bring to you today at CauseBOOK. 
 

We embedded media teams into Iraq and Afghanistan to produce

a TV "reality" show and produced an award-winning Gold Star Family film that would be shown at Arlington National Cemetery,

We safe-housed sex-trafficking victims and helped to re-write State law to help protect those victims and prosecute their abusers. That would lead to a national dispute (that continues to this day) with the senior management team of Facebook, over their failure to control thousands of active pedophiles using Facebook to engage in their dark criminality. That would take us through the offices of the FBI and into meetings with well-intentioned, but dumb-struck Representatives and their Staffers on Capitol Hill. And we can tell you where the best take-out food can be found in the heart of "Big Tech" country in Mountainview, California. 

Are we special in this respect? By no means. We were there and willing when we walked by, saw that a house was on fire and we dialed 911. Many of you have done no less. 

But we have, to use an old expression, "been around the block". More than a couple of times. We understand Conservative Americans and yes, we understand "Big Tech" because we have been face-to-face and every one of those experiences has contributed to CauseBOOK and our meeting with you today. 

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So, what specifically does this trip down memory lane have to do with CauseBOOK?

Well, a lot. We are like an old dog who has always loved to learn new tricks. We were in the mix from the very earliest days of direct messaging and data "warehousing", which coincided with the explosion of technology and the internet. Mark Zuckerberg was but a toddler and Google was known as "Backrub" when we designed our first PC-based systems. We have not stopped since.

And so, we were Day-One witnesses to everything that was both magnificent and dangerous about social media. We have always celebrated free enterprise and American ingenuity, but we have always understood technology's dark side. We watched Google's early mantra to "do no harm" evaporate; and we were eyes-wide-open as to social media's systemic flaws that could lead to abuse. None of what so many now see about Google, Facebook, and Twitter is "news" for us.

For some years then, we had mapped out a "go-to" social media platform for common-sense, Conservative Americans.  We had also very carefully considered how social media could be the spear-tip in a more cohesive and effective pooling of American digital Conservative voices.

After the 2018 Mid-Term Election, we went to work. We had four very specific goals, each with you in mind.