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.
Quick welcome, name and organization introductions
Big picture: why use Form Builder slides
Demo Data Entry (20 minutes)
Build a youth services application form with Child, Guardian and activity
Have you noticed that nobody says "There's no real difference between Democrats and Republicans" anymore? Electoral organizing is a critical part of movement organizing and the stakes get higher every year. Come learn how to build walk and phone lists, import and export to and from the VAN, integrate online and offline lists and more as we explore how to use Powerbase to make your electoral organizing work more effective.
Prerequisite: Comfortable creating and using groups.
The email protocol is federated. That means, anyone can be an email provider and send email to any other email provider:
However, what happens when one or more providers start to dominate?
It seems that artificial intelligence is taking over the world. How has it impacted you? What are your AI fears? What are your AI dreams?
Quick welcome, name and organization introductions
In 2010, four New York University students raised $20,000 via Kickstarter to launch "Diaspora" - a social networking site that was federated. Instead of just one web site controlled by one corporation, anyone could launch a Diaspora "pod" and connect to others. They failed. Many other attempts were made since then, including Friendica, GNU Social and others before Mastodon came along.
We have thankfully moved beyond the false dichotomy of "real" organizing vs "online" organizing and recognized that it's all part of the same thing. But.... what does online organizing mean? What are we trying to accomplish when we organize online? How does it build our campaigns?
Please say your name, organization, pronouns and OPTIONALLY share your thoughts about "online" organizing.
A critical step in online organizing is providing the world with a form and a reason to fill it out. In this area, Powerbase has a lot of options! In Organizing Online, we'll cover how to create custom fields, profiles, petitions, webforms and more. We will review the difference between creating a new field and adding a field to a form. And, we'll cover how online and in-person organizing are inseparable components of any campaign.
Prerequisite: Comfortable adding and editing contacts, contributions, events and activities.
Batch imports provides a way to easily enter a stack of checks all at once - for donations or memberships, ensuring that you don't make any data entry errors with the amounts. You begin by entering the number of checks you have and the total amount of all the checks. Then you are provided with a screen to enter each check individually. When done, Powerbase will do the math to ensure the total of the individual checks equals the total you specified when you created the batch.
Review a handful of recent corporate data breaches. Ask: These are corporate breaches, we operate in a different, movement context. How are these data breaches relevant to our work? What should we be doing different to avoid a similar fate?
