Google Glass MIGHT take off behind the scenes, though: what if a data visualization overlay could
help field organizers cut turf and monitor teams» locations?
Not exact matches
He
helped launch 270 Strategies after serving most recently as the National
Field Director for the 2012 re-election campaign of President Barack Obama, where he had primary responsibility for building a nationwide army of staff and volunteer
organizers.
Wellstone will provide a home for NOI's broad community of practitioners and power key elements of NOI's core programs, such as intensive, cohort - based skills training for emerging digital
organizers and data managers looking to start careers in the
field (known as Data and Digital BootCamps); shorter - form skills trainings that have been effective in
helping established practitioners take their work to the next level; and events like RootsCamp, an «unconference» that provides key networking, best - practice sharing, and skills development for the progressive data and digital communities.
Technology
helps, in big ways and little: grassroots data tools like the VAN let
organizers get moving as soon as they hit the ground, and even something as simple as VOIP and cell phones take away some of the logistical hassle of setting up
field offices.
These foundational services, whose roots were nurtured by the community
organizers of the 1960s,
helped level the playing
field so American schools became the greatest in the world.