Hillary Launches Facebook Call Center

This time it's Hillary's team that has been innovative online. Unless I missed it, there's not an equivalent for Obama or McCain/Palin. HillPAC today sent out an update to their list on how their Hillary Sent Me program is doing and also announced this new Facebook application.

I added the app and I liked how easy it was to use. Extra points for making the interface similar in layout to the one on her website that I was familiar with using during the primary. You just click a link to start making calls, and like the online version, you are presented with a tailored script for the person you are calling. My main quibble is that I can't pick the state for which to make calls. It had me calling Maine, whose politics I'm not familiar with. I'd rather be making calls to help Jim Martin here in Georgia, who has a decent shot at ousting Sen. Saxby Chambliss.

Google Maps Debuts Polling Place Maps!

Very cool! This can really help Get Out The Vote! Google, always looking to push technology further, has released today a Poll Location Map! You just type in your polling location, and presto, it shows your polling location, along with election appropriate graphics. You can also plop this handy widget into your CampaignWindow website:

I can see this as a must-add widget to any political website.

How to Extract a Comma-Separated List of Emails from an Excel Spreadsheet

For those non-Excel gurus out there, I thought I'd post this handy tip. Have you ever wanted to get a list of emails separated by commas, i.e. john@yahoo.com,joe@yahoo.com,sue@yahoo.com, from an Excel spreadsheet? This comes in handy if you are wanting to import just emails using Option 2 in Add Users in Bulk in CampaignWindow but have a big mailing list file with full names, addresses, etc in an Excel file. Well, here's how you do it.

1. Open up your Excel spreadsheet and delete every column except the email column

A Delegate in Denver - A Video Recap of my week in Denver

Thought I'd encapsulate my week in Denver via video!

DNC Convention - Day One

Yesterday was amazing! I can't do justice to the myriad of feelings, emotions and events that happened yesterday. We had our state delegation breakfast, which ended up taking waaaay too long to get our credentials. Most folks missed the morning caucuses and it meant I found no time to contact everyone who wanted to get campaignwindow training. My fellow Clinton Floor Whip, Will Fowlkes, and I caught the shuttle to the convention center, rushing to make the Clinton Floor Whip meeting at 11 a.m. Since we had no time to go back to our room, we had to lug the two huge heavy convention bags we just received with us...

On the way we saw Terry McAuliffe signing his book, so we snagged one, along with a signature and a pic. The floor whip meeting was informative and helped us understand how things would play out on Wednesday. We then took a shuttle back to drop off all our new goodies. We had just enough time to do this before we had to catch the next shuttle back to the Pepsi Center where the actual convention proceedings would be taking place. We heard that the security was pretty strict, but we didn't run into much of a crowd, so it went smoothly. We had quite a hike from the bus to the entrance but it was cool having the anticipation build as we approached.