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Among coders, sales people have a certain reputation for lacking touch with reality. I'm sure they have unflattering things to say about us too.

I generally prefer to spend my energies delivering new reliable services to blowing smoke about the vaporware which distracts me most days. Every development project is vaporware until delivery. Until then its a nice sounding spec and a bug list of the work left till launch.

Even so, its hard to resist bragging about some of the latest work, or speculating on the implications their fruition might have on Green electoral campaigns and related cultural and community organizing.

At the Party's National Meeting in Raleigh-Durham, I offered a presentation called How IT Services CanServe Your Campaign. A pdf of the slides I used for that presentation is linked from the article linked here.

At the end of that presentation I spoke about the impact which so-called cloud computing would have on our work. Cloud Computing involves renting computing capacity on an as-needed basis. It changes how we relate to computing capacity from seeing it as a large capital investment to being a utility, turn-it-on, use-what-you-need, turn-it-off commodity.

Fundraising. Voter ID work. Message delivery. GOTV.

All of these efforts are made possible with a phone bank.

In time for the 2009 election cycle, Campaign Foundations is pleased to now offer its Campaign Hosting Package, Premium featuring:

1. PCLSupport, a growing collection of tools -- featuring our Virtual Phone Bank application, which are designed to support the precinct level campaign leaders who's one-on-one voter ID and campaign message delivery work wins elections.

We add this to our Plus Hosting package, which already includes:

2. The CiviCRM Constituent Relationship Management system.

Elections and issue campaigns are won on our ability to identify our supporters, deliver our message and mobilize our supporters to action.