2 posts tagged “citizenspace”
JESSE COSTELLO-GOOD on Mapping -- from howsfvotes.com
#eqcampsf (today's EqualityCamp schedule)
Neighbor-to-neighbor / peer-to-peer is the most effective.
Reach out to your base, have then reach out to undecided / persuadable / "soft yes".
We need precinct captains.
Can we combine Voter File + Social Network + Geodata? How to ensure effectiveness?
"subsidiarity" is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest / owest / least centralized authority.
Jesse is demonstrating http://p8m.howsfvotes.com/ -- I wonder if this data is in the geocommons? Precinct lines are from 2006 State data, California data not as good as SF voter data.
Dan on the Prop8 campaign:
No on Prop 8 didn't do iterative feedback with voter file (too expensive, just one firm that does it). CallFire was used, but didn't set up the roundtrip to VAN? Not just geography but lots of demographic data to get phone numbers?
Decile vs Clustering approach. Make the data available to end-user activists? O'Reilly Vote Data Hacking?
Progressive developer hacker list?
Access to VAN (non-commercial) on a sliding scale.
Voter connect mission -- reach out to communities of color.
How do you give people options for how to engage? For example, a vet that wants to reach out to other vets.
See Dan's "Power to the Edge: Obama's California Field Operation from the Future".
CourageCampaign -- neighbor2neighbor (BlueStateDigital married with VAN, we are the test), recruit Obama organizers. n2n is a social network, allows you to get to voter contact in 3-clicks.
"Obama or straight people?" #eqcampsf
Dan Ancona: notes from RootsCamp.
What did the Obama campaign do?
1. Structure of "Empowered Accountability" -- make carpenters (organizer Marshall Ganz)
2. Tools: BlueStateDigital's my.barackobama.com & VoterActivation Network (the VAN).
3. Training -- tech&message training
[VAN was easy to use but not that easy, deployed Neighbor-to-Neighbor later]
Marshall Ganz- get people in a room and let them figure out how to make a million phone calls. share dreams & strategy. not just making phone calls, but a "machine for dreams".
Mike Bonin
Why is Camp Obama different? Experience and a set of tools in a certain point in time. We're at a different point now...
Were generally two days, 300+ ppl, designed to empower people & give them tools to be leaders in the campaign.
Respect, empower, include.
"California was more than an ATM machine"--people wanted to do more--they became the phonebank or were sent elsewhere.
Structure:
1. Finding your voice. (first half of first day, tell the story of Self. why did you decide to be active? gives you your first tool to talk.)
2. Finding what your leadership ability was.
3. Finding your team.
4. Finding what your set of responsibilities were and who/how you were accountable.
See
The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman (1970).
