This is a fascinating article about the Obama campaign's Get-Out-the-Vote efforts. That effort begins with volunteer-to-volunteer relationships and moves up, rather than the more-standard top-down style.
. . .an enormous amount of power is unlocked by this incredibly simple act of distributing different roles to people who actually feel comfortable taking them on.
I don't know about you, but when I'm pushed into doing something I don't think I'm good at I don't do it very well. It seems that the Obama campaign has figured out how to avoid that.
If you're an activist in your community, Zack Exley's post is well worth the time spent reading it.
Posted by Linkmeister at October 15, 2008 09:56 AM | TrackBackI actually tried to volunteer for the Obama campaign, with the proviso that I would do data entry but not phone banking. I object to being phoned for political purposes and won't do it to others. They were quite polite about it but said they needed data entry in the afternoon (it was around 11 am) and would I mind coming back? Somehow I've never quite made it back...
Posted by: hedera at October 19, 2008 04:34 PM