Volunteers need for 10 minutes today to help Nation MeetUp Coordination Database

[mdh]

We need some web programmers, too!

[size=+1]Mod_Perl, Perl CGI, Mod_Ruby, Ruby CGI, C CGI, PHP[/size]

Help us out! This idea is going supernova, but we need some development love.

 

[Rivington Essex]

UPDATE: So far I am up to about 80 names and 15 volunteers. And seriously folks, it has taken most people about 10 minutes. 3 clicks and a paste.

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Programmers who can help: Get in touch with mdh or goldenequity


People with 10 minutes to help: E-mail me. I have it down to 4 clicks to send a message using MeetUp and Excel. Its easy. Come on...

 

[RonFan1776]

Thank you for the opportunity to help!

It was SO EASY to do this! Literally just click, click, Ctrl-V, click "Send!"

It was also very encouraging to see all of the blurbs and photos on the Meetup groups that are out there!

 

[mdh]

Wow, this is an awesome initiative! We should all totally get involved! *shill bump ftw*

 

[Rivington Essex]

Thanks

 

[mdh]

By the way, I know all of the West Virginia ones, so don't worry about those Brad.

 

[Cowlesy]

Guys come on. We should be able to get this done tonight. Rivington Essex and MDH are good folk, this is a legit project, and needs to get completed ASAP. It literally takes 10minutes.

 

[blazin_it_alwyz]

I just sent off an email to you, I can help

dude change your icon, making me think of bad thoughts ......

 

[Kurt_In_Florida]

I think it's great that we're finally getting organized, but before you spend any time setting up web sites, web pages and databases, you might want to be aware that we've been working on a National Contact List for over three months. See http://ronpaul4president.org/NCL_map.html

Not only are we building a National Contact List, but we have been sending out automated notices of events for about a month now. For those of you who have had the National Campaign training, we have a project in the works that will give you a HUGE boost - Ron Paul Business Connections. Another project in the works will enable communications in a way that meetup can not. Share your thoughts on Special Interest Groups and Campaign Slogans. (These pages have only been up for one day - but already we're getting good input.) SIGS are VERY important, while campaign slogans give you a chance to be purely creative.
http://ronpaul4president.org/strategicplanning/tiki-index.php?page=Special+Interest+Groups
http://ronpaul4president.org/strategicplanning/tiki-index.php?page=Campaign+Slogan+Contest

So drop by, check it out, sign up and start receiving Ron Paul Events information and get notification as each of the other tools comes on line.

By the way, we currently have 109 coordinators and assistant coordinators signed up for the National Contact List and hope that number will be increasing rapidly.

Incidentally, we do NOT add people to the list. We email them and invite them to join. If they choose not to sign up, that's okay.

We also try to keep the list email to a minimum, usually with Ron Paul Events mailings on Wednesdays and (in process) state-level newsletter mailings on Mondays.

Thanks for reading...

Kurt

 

[LibertyEagle]

Kurt,

The purpose of this list is so we will be able to contact the Meetup coordinators for select events or initiatives, such as ads. Is your website going to enable us to send emails out to the coordinators?

 

[mdh]

I think it's great that we're finally getting organized, but before you spend any time setting up web sites, web pages and databases, you might want to be aware that we've been working on a National Contact List for over three months. See http://ronpaul4president.org/NCL_map.html

Not only are we building a National Contact List, but we have been sending out automated notices of events for about a month now. For those of you who have had the National Campaign training, we have a project in the works that will give you a HUGE boost - Ron Paul Business Connections. Another project in the works will enable communications in a way that meetup can not. Share your thoughts on Special Interest Groups and Campaign Slogans. (These pages have only been up for one day - but already we're getting good input.) SIGS are VERY important, while campaign slogans give you a chance to be purely creative.
http://ronpaul4president.org/strategicplanning/tiki-index.php?page=Special+Interest+Groups
http://ronpaul4president.org/strategicplanning/tiki-index.php?page=Campaign+Slogan+Contest

So drop by, check it out, sign up and start receiving Ron Paul Events information and get notification as each of the other tools comes on line.

By the way, we currently have 109 coordinators and assistant coordinators signed up for the National Contact List and hope that number will be increasing rapidly.

Incidentally, we do NOT add people to the list. We email them and invite them to join. If they choose not to sign up, that's okay.

We also try to keep the list email to a minimum, usually with Ron Paul Events mailings on Wednesdays and (in process) state-level newsletter mailings on Mondays.

Thanks for reading...

Kurt

Hi Kurt,
Our goals seem somewhat different, so we are not going to slow down in pursuing ours, and would not suggest that you do so either. What we would ask is if you'd be interested in sharing your data set with us so that we can save that much time with our volunteers contacting those same folks. What we are building is ronpauldugg.com, a digg-like system allowing the grassroots to send emails by having a critical mass of diggs for an event, idea, proposal, or request. This gives absolute control over the system and the content sent to people to the community, rather than requiring any centralized control structure to decide what information goes to who and when.

 

[mdh]

Kurt,

The purpose of this list is so we will be able to contact the Meetup coordinators for select events or initiatives, such as ads. Is your website going to enable us to send emails out to the coordinators?

Ron Paul DUGG goes way beyond just meetup organizers, though. There'll be lots of categories - one of my proposals for a category was folks who had reached their $2300 limit for the PCC and wanted to learn about exciting opportunities to donate to good causes.

 

[Cowlesy]

Guys can you please contact [email protected] and request a batch of people to contact?

I've sent out about 70 contacts so far...we could actually hit each freakin' meetup group if a few of you can man-up and send some emails.

It's uber-simple...and if I think it's simple, it's SIMPLE.

We should get this done this evening, no questions. Just get it done.

 

[Cowlesy]

bump

 

[Cowlesy]

bump

 

[aknappjr]

I'll help. What kind of response have you been getting?

 

[Cowlesy]

bump

 

[Kurt_In_Florida]

Contacting Meetup Coordinators

Kurt,

The purpose of this list is so we will be able to contact the Meetup coordinators for select events or initiatives, such as ads. Is your website going to enable us to send emails out to the coordinators?

The short answer is, "yes".

The longer answer...

When people sign up, they identify themselves as coordinators, assistant coordinators or active supporters. The initial purpose of the email function was to get around the (loathesome) meetup email limitiations (3 groups per day, etc.). The idea was to put communications on a locality basis - you could contact other RP supporters in your area regardless of what group they belonged to.

I have also been planning to add "channels" for specific functions that people could subscribe to based on interest, but not limited to locality. One such channel might be "meetup coordinators", but I expect there will be other channels as well.

The list has been growing rapidly in recent weeks. I've gotten lots of positive feedback on Ron Paul Events and those who have used Advokit and Calls for Paul appear to prefer the latter. I make an effort to ensure that the emailings are low-volume. Ron Paul Events is sent automatically once per week. I'm currently planning the best way to put out newsletters on a weekly basis to facilitate state-level coordination for the National Volunteer Campaign.

We learned a lot in the Campaign 101 Course taught last weekend by Anita Andrews. (We had 122 people show up!) Turns out there are some things we were doing that were essentially a waste of time and resources, while there were other critical things that were being completely ignored. It was a shock to most of us, but on reflection, the logic was inescapable.

I hope to provide tools to help state and county coordinators execute the National campaign plan (hopefully saving them LOTS of time and effort).

K.

 

[goldenequity]

It's growing!

I'll help. What kind of response have you been getting?

Generally organizers understand the need and want to help the project.
Responses often need a question or two answered..... the process and response gains momentum as the list is growing larger.

The more the merrier....(i.e. the bigger the happier (to help) )

 

[Scribbler de Stebbing]

Have you tried the National Organizers Meetup?

http://ronpaul.meetup.com/511/?gj=sj3

Theoretically, that is supposed to include the organizers for all the Meetups, but with only 104 members, the word has obviously not gotten out.

I am pretty sure my 25 contacts have been used, but will have to check to see if I've been given new chits.

Best idea would be to get all the organizers on the Organizers meetup so y'all don't have to go through this every time.