Overview
Measuring engagement challenges participants to think about organizing strategy and how to move people along an engagement ladder. It also provides training on useful tools for measuring this engagement in powerbase.
Trainings
Please find below a list of many of the trainings that the Progressive Technology Project has conducted over the years. Each training contains links to materials used in the trainings.
Description
Political Education
In 2017, May First Movement Technology along with the Progressive Technology Project and many other organizations organized a series of gatherings called "Technology and Revolution."
We asked the question: what relationship does technology have with revolution?
The answers were scattered and diverse, but slowly started to take shape.
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Location: Ginn Parlour, 1233 Preservation Park Way, Oakland, CA 94612
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 9:00 - 5:00 pm
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Overview
Provide an overview of PowerBase reports and how you can use them to understand your base.
Objectives
Understand the different between a report and a report template; know when to use a report and when to do a search.
Requirements
Basic familiarity with CiviCRM.
Description
Time: 60 minutes
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Overview
Introduction to send mass mailings and printing mailing labels.
Objectives
Ensure participants are familiar with the basic steps of sending an email using CiviMail and printing labels using the Print Label Action menu from the search results page.
Requirements
Participants must be familiar with running searches and creating groups.
Description
60 Minutes total
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Overview
Introduction to creating contribution pages.
Objectives
Demonstrate basics of how to enable users to make donations to your campaigns.
Requirements
Basic knowledge of how to navigate in Powerbase.
Description
30 minutes
Theme: But wait a minute...
A volunteer hears about the membership meeting. They can't come but want to write a check to support the meeting. Wait a minute! How can we record this check??
Demonstrate offline contribution.
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Overview
Introduction to creating Events.
Objectives
Understand when to track a meeting using activities and when to use CiviEvent, understand the meaning of the most common CiviEvent options.
Requirements
Basic familiarity with searching.
Description
30 minutes
Explain
Activity vs Event (5 minutes)
There is a super easy way to track that someone went to a meeting: create an activity of the type Meeting with the date of that meeting. Super!!
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Overview
Advanced search will cover the basics of finding contacts in your database and understanding how to use actions.
Objectives
Provide users with the ability to find contacts they have recently entered, and to get an overview of the many other ways to search.
Requirements
Experience entering contacts so they can search for specific people to retrieve.
Description
This lesson takes approximately 60 minutes.
Overview of searching. Explain:
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Overview
Entering Canvassing Results covers the basics of logging in and doing simple data entry of contacts from a convassing results page.
Objectives
The objective of this lesson is to ensure all participants are up-to-speed on the most basic PowerBase task, answer common questions about data entry, and put them in an organizing frame of mind. This lesson gets straight to the chase, allowing the participants to start “doing something” on the database as quickly as possible, with minimal presenting.
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Description
Icebreaker
Close your eyes and imagine the world 50 years from now after we have won our struggles.
Lots of things are different, but pay close attention to the technology. Go around and say your name, organization, pronouns and OPTIONAL: then describe one technology that you see, hear, smell, sense 50 years from now by starting with "I dream..."
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