Tech volunteer

We need technical volunteers to build on our successes since 2018. Can you help?

There are a range of tasks, from simple ones like typing voter data into spreadsheets to skilled data analysis and web design.

Right now we are:

• entering voter data for the 2025 Oxfordshire County Council Elections.
• making maps to help that campaign.
• replacing everything we do with NationBuilder, including:
  • designing new web sites for the county and some of the branches,
  • moving our data on members, volunteers and supporters from NationBuilder to Action Network,
  • learning how to use Action Network to organise volunteers.

How can you help? There are data tasks and writing and design tasks. Let's start with data.

Every year, we update the data we hold on voters, so we are better prepared for the next election campaign. There are simple tasks like typing data into spreadsheets from this year's canvassing sheets and the marked registers (of who voted, not how they voted). And there are more technical tasks integrating data from different sources, getting ready for the new canvassing system being developed by a team of national volunteers.

Since 2013, we have been using the NationBuilder software as a service to manage web sites, events, donations, emails and a database of members, volunteers, supporters and voters. As the price has gone up, we are replacing it with the national party's Action Network system, WordPress web sites and the forthcoming canvassing system.

Our best data on members, volunteers and supporters is in NationBuilder. We need to work out what data records and tags we want to keep, then decide how to convert important NationBuilder tags and fields into Action Network fields and tags before moving the data. This is a lot of work, but it can be split into many small tasks done by many volunteers.

We also need people to use Action Network to manage volunteers for our branches and campaigns. There will be training every Wednesday.

Action Network, doesn't provide web sites, it just lets you create individual web forms to volunteer, donate, sign up for an event etc. So we will need to set up web sites for the Oxfordshire county campaigns. The will be WordPess sites. There are a few technical WordPress tasks that need developer skills, but most of the work is in creating web pages, editing existing pages and writing new ones. We need image designers and writers for that.

Web sites aren't much help unless people visit them. So we need to improve our use of social media to get out message out and then bring them to our website to sign up for something. Could you advise us which social media tools we should use to better reach voters and supporters and to analyse our online impact?

Please select from the list of tasks below. I am arranging more online briefing sessions every Wednesday at 1 and 8 p.m.

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