Are you a Technical Expert?

By: californiasam (Diary) | April 18th, 2012 at 12:08 AM |

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If you have expertise in website development, social media or database management, your Republican Party County Central Committee needs you!

Take a look at your County’s Central Committee website – does it suck?
They need you.

How’s your County’s Facebook page – nonexistent, ugly, unmoderated, out of date?
They need you.

Twitter Feed – nonexistent, languishing?
They need you.

Volunteer or Newsletter Sign-ups Online?
NO? They need you.

Bring them into the 21st Century, even if it’s kicking and screaming.
We need you!

Tell them that Redstate sent you and get ready to make a difference.

COMMENTS

http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

CW
citizenkh

does not necessarily mean computer literate. Just sayin…

There are a great many other things which require technical expertise such as engineering (most don’t use social media).

californiasam

My goal is to get folks to jump in and make a difference. My experience at the county and state level is that we are sorely lacking in online/database expertise.

http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

In practice I fear those sites are set up by connected contractors.

californiasam

because they don’t have the knowledge in their ranks. And, they are often paying through the nose for those ‘solutions.’ Our county runs on a shoestring budget – and I know that many others do, too. If you can save them $50-$100 per month and give them a more robust solution, they’d jump at it. Especially if you have a track record in industry or other volunteering efforts.

It’s time to start looking for ways to get involved instead of reasons not to.

http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

It’s a matter of finding the right ways to get involved.

I would say becoming a Precinct Committeeman or candidate for office, and recruiting others to do the same, is much more effective.

avgjo

I think (and correct me if I’m wrong, sir) what Mr. Stevens was getting at with his ‘in theory’ comment was that often, these decisions are not always made by expediency and/or what is practical, but by according to whom the purchaser/commissioner of the work knows, and/or to whom the purchaser/commissioner was referred. This too, I have experienced first hand. With respect to volunteering, it’s like that old expression about bringing a horse to water.

Let me preface this last part by saying I love your idea. The problem is the sort of people that populate the GOP. I know a few of them in my state personally, and from where I’m standing, they’re very rigid the way they do things. They rarely like to try new things, and when they do, they only do so because one of their peers has told them to try it, or in extreme desperation. It’s usually the former. (I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to have someone regurgitate a suggestion you made two years before, and tell you that YOU should talk to so-and-so because they have all kinds of good ideas. ) A combination of Coldwarrior’s ideas to repopulate the GOP (and get fresh, flexible people in there) and some extra-party grassroots successes (to establish a track record) will probably yield the best results in the past.