Distributed campaigning
Bumming around the internet and found this fascinating article by Benjamin Katz about distributed campaigning - basically, using IT to get the work of campaigning in elections out to your staff and volunteers. Love the idea of being able to farm out call lists, making calls *and* data entry to volunteers on their own computers working from home, though I do see the problems with quality-controlling the messages they’re giving out that he raises.
Can’t imagine that the horrible database we Labour people use would be able to cope with this level of activity any time soon, though!
