CampaignFoundations.com

Campaign Foundations is pleased to now offer its Basic Campaign Hosting Package including:

1. The Drupal Content Management System to get the technology of the web out of your way as you seek to publish your campaign's content to the voting public. (Drupal powers this site).

2. supporters.cgi, offering the subscribe, donate and volunteer forms linked from the "support the campaign" menu in the right column of our sample site.

3. a mailman listserver to manage email lists and subscriptions in a way that will protect your campaign from having your site used to spam the public. This server comes pre-configured with the six lists we recommend to every campaign, ready for you to customize to your needs.

4. an account on our sql-ledger accounting installation customized to support your campaign treasurer in keeping the books and filing the campaign finance disclosure reports. The link explains how to access and check out our demo installation.

For a $50.00 setup fee and $39.95 a month, you can host your website with administrators who understand the demands of electoral politics and who stand committed to serving your campaign's needs. Link both here to pay your installation fee and here to subscribe now. (Note: all fees payable to our partner, Truffula Networks.)

To see this package in action, take a look at this mock campaign site. We hope you might also see how easy these tools are to use by reading these instructions for launching your web site in two hours.

Working with the media requires the ability to operate in real time. News worthy has a short shelf life. News becomes history while the ink is drying.

Your press secretary should not have to wait on your web mistress to get their approved materials posted to the campaign website. And with the Drupal content management system, that is no longer an issue.

With Drupal, your press secretary can publish content directly to your website. In fact, any campaign volunteer or staff member you choose to extend those privileges to can have the access, as appropriate, to get your campaign's message straight to the browsing public.

To learn more about how easy it is to post content to your new website, see: Posting Content by the Numbers.

Security is a concern whenever you share your data and web applications over the internet. The user privilege system for the drupal content management system and our other applications is a part of the answer.

But these days one does not have to have political opponents to attract 'graffiti artists' who will vandalize your website. Spammers, those same folks who fill your inbox with unsolicited and unwanted email also write scripts which create user login accounts on content management systems, authenticate those user accounts by email and then use them to post commercial advertising with links to their clients' sites. Its all designed to boost their rankings in the search engines.

But you can stop these robots from spamming your site. And your hosting package includes all the tools you need to do so.

Get all the features, support, control and peace of mind provided by our Basic Campaign Hosting Package, PLUS the Constituent Relationship Management tools needed to manage, engage and build a membership, or the support base of an issue campaign or your support among the voters of your district for an electoral campaign.

For a $100.00 set up fee and $49.95 per month, you get CiviCRM Constituent Relationship Management application, the Drupal Content Management System, supporters.cgi (providing donation forms, volunteer forms and subscription forms), an instance of Mailman maillist server at your domain name and an account on our SQL-Ledger installation to provide your campaign treasurer or organization's bookkeeper with secured access to a double entry GAAP compliant accounting package.

This is a test of Organic Group's ability to control access by group. This content should only appear to members of the Partners group. We shall see what happens.