great stats by congressional district

http://fastfacts.census.gov/home/cws/main.html

Holy crap, the location tools are already out there!

http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php

http://www.fundrace.org/block_party.php

I found these links here..

http://www.bringvisibility.net/node/150

Easily find who your representatives are...

Easily find who your representatives are...

http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm

mapping tool for only $200 for the whole country

http://risearch.org/eng/ricoord/index.html


GEOZIP. Unix, $74. Used for dating sites.

http://www.scriptspub.com/scripts/090408000001.htm

Other programs, and he does websites from the guy who does GEOZIP.
http://keskydee.com/scripts.php

Free perl program to do the calculation.

http://www.indo.com/distance/dist.pl

Civic space maps development

http://civicmaps.org/?q=

Civic space maps...

http://civicspacelabs.org/home/node/12336

The people that do the DNC website

http://www.plusthree.com/

http://www.qrsnews.com/

what the RNC is doing...

http://www.gopteamleader.com/faqs/faqs.asp

very sophisticated.

Just a crazy question...

It makes me laugh. Everywhere I turn on the internet I see people saying "WE did the Dean website, online strategy."

Echoditto
Convio
BlueStateDigital.

Who the hell actually did it?

It is hilarious. Something goes well and everyone takes credit.

Act Here

I got a letter from Harold Ickes today asking for money for ACT. http://acthere.com/

Their website has the email and zip code sign up routed through...

http://www.bluestatedigital.com/

"find events within 100 miles" http://www.bluestatedigital.com/Portfolio/13/america-coming-together

Online voter rolls for $.25 a record...

Hmmm....

Use of and access to voter list data is restricted in some jurisdictions. For information, contact a representative. AZ voter data is not available on the Internet. Orders for PA & SD voter data may be placed; however, the data will be delivered separately as it's not available for download over the Internet.

http://www.aristotle.com/

I can't summarize, you have got to read it...

"Our solutions to improving voter contact cannot repeatedly be to replicate what we have done in the past on a larger and more coordinated scale (basically, what we did in 2004). Our current methods of voter contact are not influencing many voters, are not helping us in partisan self-identification, and are not helping us in ideological self-identification. As time goes on, these methods will only become even less effective. As a result of the changes in the public sphere, we need to find new means of voter contact that address our new reality. The only way that is going to happen if the party moves away from mass-membership, institutional based campaigns which do not reflect how people live and participate in political discourse, and toward a much greater focus on campaigns that are driven by individuals who hold influential positions within small social groups. This is neither strategic, choosing one plan over another, nor moral, choosing one value over another. Instead, this is ontological, recognizing that one reality has replaced another. For a detailed proposal on how to proceed in the new reality, I have reproduced Karnes's entire paper in the extended entry."

http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/2/21/18279/6244

Zip Code company

Zip code program... Just a couple of hundred dollars.

http://www.zip-codes-latitude-longitude.com/Products/?Family=DistRad

Another company...

http://www.zipwise.com/database-more-info.php

Congressional Disctricts zip code look up...expensive.

http://www.zipinfo.com/products/cdz/cdzop.htm

Congressional Disctricts zip code look up...no price listed

http://www.electiondataservices.com/content/zipdistrict.htm

More zip code information...

http://www.caliper.com/DataCDs/LatestZIPCodes.htm

Political Maptitude

http://www.caliper.com/Political/PoliticalPricing.htm

yet more stuff...15K for store locator

http://www.zipfind.net/LocatorWeb.aspx

convio, the guys that did Dean's site

There is a great whitepaper on the dean campaign. Note the discussion on "Viral marketing."

http://www.convio.com/site/PageServer?pagename=cli_main

They are catching some heat for agreeing to do some work for a conservative group.

A Kos site for each state... and civicspace info

"We need to get our act together for '06. We need organizing tools. NOW.

A Kos site for each state."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/1/95025/58475

Civic Space, Echo Ditto and Polycot.

http://civicspacelabs.org/home/faq

The email service that echoditto uses for its own signups.

http://www.whatcounts.com/solutions/

relationship management software

CiviCRM is an open source project to create relationship management software for the nonprofit and nongovernmental sectors. CiviCRM stores information on the universe of people associated with a nonprofit organization and on their interactions (emails, donations, petitions, events, etc.).

The technology is designed to be lightweight, extensible, core functionality that can both stand-alone as a simple contact management application and be easily integrated with a broad variety of technologies and applications (Donation Processing, Fundraising, Advocacy/GOTV, Event Management, CivicSpace, Advokit, etc.)


http://objectledge.org/confluence/display/CRM/CRM+Project+One+Pager

scoop host

http://www.xlan.org/software/scoop/index.php

organize your precinct.

http://www.seattlewebcrafters.com/wspco/organize.shtml

Organize your precinct. Great concept from Seattle.

http://democracyforcolorado.com/thinkprecinct

Great site in colorado about organizing you precinct.

http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/html/part/0604.html

Texas precinct organization.

capitol advantage

Capitol Advantage is the nation’s premier provider of grassroots solutions for corporations, nonprofit groups, associations, educational institutions, and other organizations. Founded in 1986, Capitol Advantage provides grassroots advocacy products and services to more than 1,500 organizations, including some of the nation’s largest and most respected portals and media companies as well as trade associations, nonprofit organizations and corporations.

Whether you are looking for a comprehensive online grassroots action center, personalized congressional print directories, or hands-on strategic and tactical consulting support, Capitol Advantage is the only source of support you will need.

http://www.capitoladvantage.com/

Article on Privacy to think about...

In the 1998 and 2000 U.S. elections, the Internet played an important role as a source of information for citizens and as a campaign tool for office seekers. The rise of Internet campaigning has brought about numerous benefits including increased access to political information, increased depth of content, and the ability to engage in online interactive political dialogue. Unfortunately, there is a potential dark side to all of this interaction. Just as the rise of electronic commerce has created tremendous concerns about online privacy, so too has the rise of e-campaigning. Through the use of cookies, online donation forms, and political mailing lists, Internet-based campaigns can now gather tremendous amounts of information about which candidates voters prefer and where they choose to surf. The creation and sale of such detailed voter profiles raises serious questions about the future of political privacy and the democratic electoral process itself. This paper will explore the importance of political privacy, its protection through our rights to associational privacy and anonymous speech, and the many ways that the political preferences of citizens are compromised online by campaign Web sites, database and e-mail marketers, and excessive U.S. Federal Election Commission disclosure rules. The potential negative effects of a monitored electorate on the democratic process are also examined.

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_2/hunter/