[pp.int.general] Party IT systems.. - the back ends..

[Andy Halsall]

Hey ho, 

Looking for some ideas on coordination and campaigns support from an IT 
perspective.  I've been evaluating Things like groupware packages, civicrm and 
other crm packages and a couple of project apps, but haven't found anything 
that ticks even most of the boxes yet.

I wondered what people were aware of that might make the following easier:

	1a. Inbound Communications (tracking inbound communications to teams and 
making sure that follow ups happen and can be handed between people).
	1b. Outbound Communications (the ability to drop out mailings to groups 
based on some criteria - location, membership, interests etc..)
	2. Task management, the delegation of and acceptance of 'stuff that needs 
to be done' within a team.
	3. Reporting on and tracking of the effectiveness of our actions, whether 
that's a specific campaign or event.  This should also include things like 
donation and membership payments being linked to a 'thing' if there was a 
thing that caused the donation/membership.
	

At the moment we are using calendars, forums and mailing list and a wiki, but 
as we get more people coming in for contact it's getting harder to use 
sensibly and delegation is not as simple as it could be.  Essentially we are 
making our lives harder than they need to be when it comes to organisation 
online.

We also have a mild issue in the way we are organised for elections, that is 
to say because it's all FPTP and very local much of the time, we have to be 
able make use of this to get pretty granular, down to areas that are 
essentially small town sized, especially for issues, whilst still being able 
to task national resources for support...

So, any ideas? What are others doing? 


-- 
Andy Halsall
Campaigns Officer
Pirate Party UK
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