<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thanks Valerie. I hope you and others will participate in using our database, blogging and other features. As you and I've experienced its a fairly approachable system.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Green is GO!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new
york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Drew<br></span></div><div> </div><div>~*~*~*~<br>Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America<br>Campaign website: http://www.jillstein.org/<br> First TV ad: http://youtu.be/vaObRxkX8K4<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Valerie D. Face <vdf@juno.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> rainbeaufriend@yahoo.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 7, 2012 6:31 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [GPSCC-chat] CiviCRM for building our party and our web site<br> </font> </div> <br>
Great! I think this is definitely a step in the right direction.<br><br>Valerie<br><br><br>~*~*~*~<br>Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America<br>Campaign website: http://www.jillstein.org/<br> First TV ad: http://youtu.be/vaObRxkX8K4<br><br><div id="yiv1053715222"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>When I was working for the Kent Mesplay for President campaign I started to get familiarized with <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1347082109_0">CiviCRM</span> offered by <a target="_blank" href="http://campaignfoundations.com/"><span class="" id="lw_1347082109_1">CampaignFoundations.com</span></a>
(originally started by our very own Cameron Spitzer with Hugh Esco.
Now run by Hugh Esco). The CRM stands for "Constituent Relations
Management" and what it is is an opensource database of members and
donors for campaigns, parties and nonprofits. Its pretty cool and CRM
is how elected officials and political campaigns get their job done.
Carol Brouillet used CiviCRM for her campaign.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">With
it we can retain info on Greens and Green-leaning voters and citizen
supporters. When we are telephone
banking for Jill Stein and Rob Means we can record which people donated
and requested more info. So instead of just writing things down on
pieces of paper and then losing them we enter them into the database and
start to operate like a serious political party.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Furthermore
CiviCRM is integrated with the Drupal CMS (Content Management System)
which makes it easy to manage content for your web site and have it look
really good without everyone working on it needing tto have
sophisticated web knowledge. Most anyone after familiarization can work
with the blog and the event notification system, etc.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Cameron tried to get us started on this a few years back, but we just didn't get going on learning how to set it up.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">So
I'm proposing that we hire CampaignFoundations.com to host a CiviCRM
site for our county party. Its $39 / month for the basic service (with
$50 setup fee). I talked to my the Council members, Merriam and Spencer
about
it today and they were in favor. So I donated the $89 startup fee and
now our site is getting set up. I'll let you know more as it develops.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Green is GO!</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Drew<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;
font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div></div></div></div><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>