[Plone-NGOs] eCampaigning Tool released

[fairsay]

Hi,

Today we made the first formal release of the "eCampaigning Tool"
product for Plone.  This allows the set-up and management of
advocacy actions such as petitions, letters to targets, etc. You
can download the alpha at:
http://plone.org/products/ecampaigning-tool/

What we really need now is someone good at CSS to help us with
the action form layouts.  Any volunteers?

This is stable but there are a number of minor issues that only
come up in advanced usage, and some enhancements we want to make
before final release...plus it needs YOUR feedback. It runs on
both Plone 2.1 and 2.5.

This tool evolved out of my frustration (while eCampaigning
Manager at Oxfam GB and since then) with existing advocacy tools
(mostly proprietary) which didn't enable me to implement best
practice techniques for getting the best result for the campaign.
In the eCampaigning Tool, this is best demonstrated through
'smart steps' - combinations of different settings with
conditional content based on session or submitted data (e.g.
present different options on a thank-you page based on if they
opted-in or not).

Documentation (including an 'Editor Guide' is available at:
http://fairsay.com/labs/ectool/docs/?utm_source=pngo&utm_medium=e
ml
(note this was written for version 0.1.9 and thus is in the
process of being updated - but is mostly still valid)

Anyway - try it out, join the list, give us feedback, help us
with programming, design and documentation and let's create a
tool for effective campaigning.

Cheers,

Duane

PS - and thanks to Saffe who put in some incredible work on the
programming side and was very patient with my extensive feature
requests - thanks to him this is already a very good tool in our
opinion :-)

PPS - I also just launched a blog with the first articles
focusing on a review of advocacy campaigning in 2006. See more at
http://fairsay.com/blog?utm_source=pngo&utm_medium=emp


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FairSay
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[Sam Stainsby-2]

Duane Raymond wrote:

> Today we made the first formal release of the "eCampaigning Tool"
> product for Plone.  This allows the set-up and management of
> advocacy actions such as petitions, letters to targets, etc. You
> can download the alpha at:
> http://plone.org/products/ecampaigning-tool/
>

Sounds great! I've sent this on to some clients that I know will be very
interested. Does this integrate with, or could it be integrated with,
PloneFormGen?


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[fairsay]

Hi Sam,

> > Today we made the first formal release of the
> "eCampaigning Tool"
> > product for Plone.  This allows the set-up and management of
> > advocacy actions such as petitions, letters to
<snip>
>
> Sounds great! I've sent this on to some clients that I
> know will be very
> interested. Does this integrate with, or could it be
> integrated with, PloneFormGen?

It definitely could be integrated with PloneFormGen - we almost
went that route but since the original was based on
ATSchemaEditor before PloneFormGen existed we have kept using
that for now - but are not emotionally attached to it in any way.

If one of your clients would like to try it on an action - I can
hand-hold if necessary in return for some quality feedback and
documentation input.

Cheers,

Duane


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[Alexander Limi]

Looks awesome, Duane!

— Alexander Limi

On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:10:14 -0800, Duane Raymond  
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Today we made the first formal release of the "eCampaigning Tool"
> product for Plone.  This allows the set-up and management of
> advocacy actions such as petitions, letters to targets, etc. You
> can download the alpha at:
> http://plone.org/products/ecampaigning-tool/
>
> What we really need now is someone good at CSS to help us with
> the action form layouts.  Any volunteers?
>
> This is stable but there are a number of minor issues that only
> come up in advanced usage, and some enhancements we want to make
> before final release...plus it needs YOUR feedback. It runs on
> both Plone 2.1 and 2.5.
>
> This tool evolved out of my frustration (while eCampaigning
> Manager at Oxfam GB and since then) with existing advocacy tools
> (mostly proprietary) which didn't enable me to implement best
> practice techniques for getting the best result for the campaign.
> In the eCampaigning Tool, this is best demonstrated through
> 'smart steps' - combinations of different settings with
> conditional content based on session or submitted data (e.g.
> present different options on a thank-you page based on if they
> opted-in or not).
>
> Documentation (including an 'Editor Guide' is available at:
> http://fairsay.com/labs/ectool/docs/?utm_source=pngo&utm_medium=e
> ml
> (note this was written for version 0.1.9 and thus is in the
> process of being updated - but is mostly still valid)
>
> Anyway - try it out, join the list, give us feedback, help us
> with programming, design and documentation and let's create a
> tool for effective campaigning.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Duane
>
> PS - and thanks to Saffe who put in some incredible work on the
> programming side and was very patient with my extensive feature
> requests - thanks to him this is already a very good tool in our
> opinion :-)
>
> PPS - I also just launched a blog with the first articles
> focusing on a review of advocacy campaigning in 2006. See more at
> http://fairsay.com/blog?utm_source=pngo&utm_medium=emp
>
>
> ===========================================================
> Duane Raymond
> FairSay
> [phone]
> IM: fairsay (Skype, Yahoo!, Google, MSN)
>
> Bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/fairsay
> Web: http://fairsay.com/?utm_source=dr&utm_medium=ems

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[AHatton]

Nice job Duane!
I've forwarded onto the OGB and OI teams for their information.

thanks
Andrew




Andrew Hatton, IS Project Manager
Oxfam GB
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Please note Oxfam GB's new registered address is:-

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[vedawms]

Hello,

I might be able to help you with the CSS / UI design if you're not in a huge hurry. I can see this tool being very attractive for one of my NGO clients and would love to contribute.

For an example of what I do designwise, check out my latest Plone site: http://provost.unc.edu or my personal site: http://www.404-notfound.com.

You can email me offline at catchatigerbythetail at gmail.com.

Cheers,

- Veda