Idea: Responsive Campaigns

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Josh Shapiro for PA Govenor

Shapiro Private Facebook Group

I love this group! But it has one drawback, it's got a lot of messages and most of them aren't for ME. What about having an email address for people to ask questions or make suggestions? The incoming emails could be sorted by team members and forwarded to specific volunteers who are interested enough to learn how Josh feels about specific issues so they can pass detailed RESPONSES to the initiating email writer. With enough volunteers, this process could even do research or find someone to do research so that people who use this email tool can come to expect personal service and feel confident that their interests are addressed as best as possible. The responding volunteer could even become an email writer's specific POINT of CONTACT to the campaign. This method would give potential voters a feeling of personal connection to the campaign and to Josh himself. With a system like this, everyone can participate in the campaign through email as well as through this GROUP, and the emails they would receive WOULD be for each person's "ME."


Gavin LichtensteinAdmin Hey Stanley, this is a good idea!! We want to encourage conversation about Josh, while also giving people opportunities to get involved through volunteer events. I’m your point of contact so please reach out anytime that you have any questions or need extra help so we can give you the info you need.


Gavin Lichtenstein The next step is to find out if the process I'm describing has enough support within the campaign and from Josh himself. It would be important to hold further conversation to allow me to feel that my idea might be implemented at some level. With some level of assurance that I'm being received well (and Thank YOU for your interest) I would be pleased to spend time working out specific details on how to build this process into the campaign.

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Stanley R. PokrasAuthor For one thing, I call the range of ideas like my email thing and THIS Facebook group to be part of a "Responsive Campaign." This Facebook group is wonderful and should be integrated into a set of opportunities for the pubic to engage with the campaign. Technology today offers gobs of potential ways to give people the confidence they need to actually VOTE. By working on various ways to make the campaign "Responsive" we can blow the competition out of the water, so to speak.

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Stanley R. PokrasAuthor I have been thinking about ideas for group communication without in-person meetings for over 50 years. I currently publish Wikidelphia.org where we catalog what I call "Digital Philadelphia." If you'd like, call me to set up a time to Zoom to explore ways to implement additional elements for Josh's Responsive Campaign. You can reach me at 267-968-0407 stan@communitymagic.org

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