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The 2008 Elections are over.
So now what do you do about all the contacts you've made during your voter engagement work? Are you wondering how to integrate all this information back into your organizational database? Have you thought about what types of information would be important to capture from your voter engagement work?
Here's a powerpoint presentation created by Karla Zombro of SCOPE, which higlights their Civic Participation Curriculum. If you have any questions or would like training on this curriculum, please contact Karla at kzombro@sbcglobal.net.
Here is a list of those who attended the Voter Tech Training on April 28 - May 1, 2008, in Minneapolis, MN.
Organization, city/state, and email addresses are included on the list.
Here are excel and "csv" text practice files you can download:
* "Practice file for excel 1.xls" can be used to practice skills on filtering, sorting, finding blank fields, and finding duplicates;
* "Practice file for excel 1.txt" can be used to practice importing a comma separated value file ("csv" files) into excel [this file contains the same data as "Practice file for excel 1.xls"];
these are links to materials about keeping your addresses clean from the Voter Tech Kit site:
http://votertechkit.progressivetech.org/resource_materials/keepyourdatac...
http://votertechkit.progressivetech.org/data/data_elements.htm
Mark
This is a copy of chapter 3 from Alan S. Gerber and Donald P. Green's book Get Out The Vote.
The chapter is a good summary of the opportunities and challenges in door to door canvassing, and is well worth reading.
