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.

Free Capitalist Headlines: C Rick Koerber

Protests Mount Over Venezuela TV
From BBC
Staff and supporters of a Venezuelan TV station that is due to be taken off air have unveiled a kilometre-long banner in Caracas in support of press freedom.


Senate Puts Off Action on Immigration
From AP
Senate leaders agreed Monday that they would wait until June to take final action on a bipartisan plan to give millions of unlawful immigrants legal status.
Related: Martinez: Immigration Bill Could Save GOP Principle 2


Aspiring Abortion Doctors Drawn to Embattled Field
From LA Times
Medical students cite defiance and conscience as a reason to choose the career. 'It doesn't matter what you believe if you don't back it up with action,' one says. Principle 5


Family not Told Their Home Was Site of Murder
From Fox News
A family in Central Florida is outraged that they were kept in the dark about their new house's dark secret: A triple murder and suicide happened within the four walls they'd just begun to call home. Principle 3


Supreme Court Dismisses Lawsuit in Mistaken Search
From Baltimore Sun
Mistakes sometimes happen, the Supreme Court said yesterday, and threw out a lawsuit brought by a white couple in Southern California who were rousted from bed and held naked at gunpoint by deputies looking for several black suspects. Principle 4


Religious Leaders Urge Action on Warming
From Yahoo! News
Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders are urging President George W. Bush and Congress to take action against global warming, declaring that the changing climate is a "moral and spiritual issue."
Related: Market for Carbon Offsets Raises Questions Principle 3


Why the Left Hated Jerry Falwell So Much
From American Thinker
Jerry Falwell's funeral is today, and now that he is being laid to rest, it is appropriate to dissect the vicious treatment he has received at the hands of his enemies since his unexpected demise.
Related: Evangelicals at a Crossroads As Falwell's Generation Fades Principle 4


Kid's Mom Sues Baseball Coach
From New York Post
A Staten Island mom is blaming her son's injury during a Little League game on a bum education in base-running. Principle 4


The End of Free Trade
From The Weekly Standard
So it does indeed end with a whimper rather than a bang. Free trade, I mean. Thanks to a president too weak politically to withstand the protectionist surge of a Democratic Congress, the era of ever-freer trade has come to an end. Principle 8