CampaignFoundations.com

Campaign Foundations is pleased to now offer its Basic Campaign Hosting Package including:

1. The Drupal Content Management System to get the technology of the web out of your way as you seek to publish your campaign's content to the voting public. (Drupal powers this site).

2. supporters.cgi, offering the subscribe, donate and volunteer forms linked from the "support the campaign" menu in the right column of our sample site.

3. a mailman listserver to manage email lists and subscriptions in a way that will protect your campaign from having your site used to spam the public. This server comes pre-configured with the six lists we recommend to every campaign, ready for you to customize to your needs.

4. an account on our sql-ledger accounting installation customized to support your campaign treasurer in keeping the books and filing the campaign finance disclosure reports. The link explains how to access and check out our demo installation.

For a $50.00 setup fee and $39.95 a month, you can host your website with administrators who understand the demands of electoral politics and who stand committed to serving your campaign's needs. Link both here to pay your installation fee and here to subscribe now. (Note: all fees payable to our partner, Truffula Networks.)

To see this package in action, take a look at this mock campaign site. We hope you might also see how easy these tools are to use by reading these instructions for launching your web site in two hours.

Your web site has to be kept up to date, but that's only a start. Make sure you use your email lists as well to stay in touch with your supporters and the public.

Our Basic Hosting Package comes packaged with eight lists preconfigured for your campaign. Our subscription forms are ready to link from your site so you can feed website visitors directly into your lists as subscribers.

Engaging your campaign supporters on line means you must both

(1) be careful not to abuse their consent to send your materials to their inbox; and

(2) that you must honor their intent to subscribe by not ignoring them.

Use this medium to send traffic appropriate in content and volume to your subscriber's expectations and it will be reflected in your real world campaign as increased contributions, volunteer engagement and turn-out at events and at the polls.