Political Campaigns Future Technology

Political Campaigns Future Technology
As a former CEO with nearly 25 years IT experience I have been trying to push for the use of technology to improve communication within Political Campaigns and Political Parties.

In 2002 I introduced the INTRANET technology of web based campaign technologies. These technologies were then used very heavily in 2004 by several campaigns I was associated. From 2004 to 2006 I have been involved on development of additional tools to assist political campaigns and parties in their efforts to organize and distribute action plan items to those people who have offered help to a campaign.

This is no easy task as anyone who has tried to organize volunteers knows well.

The following article from Utah Policy Daily again talks about technology that I and many other IPO (Internet Political Operatives) are using.

Enjoy Spyglass readers, and well done LaVarr in bringing this technology to light.

Captain Mark

From Today’s Utah Policy Daily:

What is Distributed Campaigning?“Distributed campaigning” is an adaptation of the term “distributed computing,” which is defined as “the use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area to solve a single problem.” Distributed Computing was popularized by the SETI@Home Project in which at-home users could set up their computers to assist the SETI project when they were not otherwise in use. The home computers would automatically download sets of data to work on, process them and send the result back to the main SETI servers.In Distributed Campaigning, political campaigns likewise maximize their power and impact through Internet-based tools that allow supporters to easily assist the campaign from their homes. For example, via the web, volunteers could download lists of voters, call them, and send the results back to the campaigns’ website. (Read the entire tip by Benjamin Katz at Complete Campaigns.