Services
September 27th, 2007
There are a number of turnkey campaign solutions some of which were recently reviewed by Personal Democracy. They are:
Aristotle International
Blue State Digital
Blue Utopia
CivicSace
Convio
Capitol Advantage
Complete Campaigns
DCS Contressional
Democracy in Action
Electionmail Technologies
Kintera
Liberty Concepts
Media Mezcla
NGP Software
Open Campaigns
Plus Three
Not all of these companies offer all the services I’ve described. Some merely provide email broadcasts, others will host websites with contribution pages, others focus exclusively on contributions and supporter management. Further complicating the matter is that even within the same company not all features are integrated, meaning that one suite of services such as processing contributions isn’t connected to the database of field operations. How would you like to knock on someone’s door in order to tell them about your work, only to find they’ve already contributed?
To recap the whole ball of wax, the different features you’ll want to investigate are:
• Website management
• Contributions processing
• Email broadcasts
• Email accounts
• Financial reporting
• Supporter management
• Voter targeting – Field operations
Of all the above listed companies, I’m eager to work with opencampaigns. Their Treasurer, Manager, and Field suite of services are integrated and inexpensive, and take care of the hardest part of database management.