Congressional One Pager
From The Open Forum Foundation Community
We need to create a one page document that we can circulate to Congressional offices to solicit their involvement in the development of the platform.
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To be done
- Settle on a name - HelloCongress? CongressConnect?
- Is this appropriately attractive to Congressional offices?
- If we have separate websites for different branches/levels of governments, will we be able to connect them sufficiently on the back-end?
- Single site and potentially different sections of that one site, finding ways to avoid the silohs of information.
- Set-up/decide what current installation of NationBuilder we can send offices to from the One Pager
- It should be easy for them to interact with and see immediate benefit
- Figure out screenshots
- What will show them the utility most readily
- Walk them through the process
- If you are a congressperson what will the site do and how (value)
- If you are a citizen what will the site do and why would I visit.
Miscellaneous Draft Text
Email, fax, phone calls, personal visits, web forms, twitter, facebook, youtube, myspace. How many ways do you need to communicate with your constituents? How are you aggregating and staying on top of all of that?
What are we doing?
We're developing a free, web-based communication platform so you can better understand your constituents and engage them in meaningful dialogue.
To ensure that we are effectively meeting the needs of Congressional offices, we are looking to partner with a select number of offices that are working on the cutting edge of social technologies.
We are building on the NationBuilder platform and expect to have a functional beta by the middle of September.
Who are we?
The Open Forum Foundation is a DC based nonprofit with a long term vision to establish open technology and standards that enable legitimate and reliable communication between governments and their citizens.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for a select few offices to give early feedback and ensure that our platform is accurately tailored to fit your needs and provide immediate and tangible benefits.
Upsides
Social media
free
tailored to your needs
deesigned to solve constituent communications overwhelm
long term solution
Downsides
Who are we?
time constraints
Are you working on the forefront of determining how social technologies can be used to facilitate a legitimate understanding of your constituents and safely engage them in meaningful dialogue?
We are. And we would like to engage with you so that our free, web-based communication platform is tailored to your needs.
Introducing JQPublic, a web-based communication platform to connect Congressional offices to citizens. It is being developed by the nonprofit Open Forum Foundation on the NationBuilder platform and tailored specifically for Congressional use.
If you are on the forefront of trying to figure out how social technologies can , then we need to talk.
We're developing your system. For free. And we want your help to make sure it fits your needs.
Issues being addressed
- Volume of incoming constituent communications
- Constituent relations
- Effective use of social media
- The changing nature of communication
- Connecting with younger voters
Proposed Solution
- Creation of a smooth transition to the communication system of the future
We are developing a web-based communication platform to connect citizens to members of Congress.
Development Plan
We are forming relationships with a small number of Congressional offices for early feedback on JQPublic.
Time Requirements
Outline
This is just a very early rough draft...
- What are we doing?
- What do we want from them?
- Why should they care?
- How this is going to help them?
- How this is going to move forward the objecives of oppennes, transparency, and participation
- How it will be easier to connect with participants and not only push information out to them, but get feedback.
