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Free-Tel: Calls For Change

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[edit] About Free-Tel

Calls For Change is a one-day miniconference bridging innovative telephony applications and social change. A series of talks and workshops targeting Activists, Advocacy, Fundraisers, and Organizers will be held by Technical Innovators who have been successfully using telephone networks as a powerful tool for social change. A wide breadth of tools will be covered, from traditional membership communication, Get Out The Vote, and call centers, to more recent tools and technologies such as Web 2.0 applications, VoIP, polling, and SMS.

The community is invited to brainstorm, discuss needs of advocacy organizations, and share skills in building out these systems. http://www.callsforchange.org

Calls For Change will be held in conjunction with O'Reilly's Emerging Telephony Conference February 27th to March 1st.

Cost Free!

When February 27th 9am!

Where San Francisco Airport Marriott

Who Activists, Advocates, and Organizers working for social change will meet with and collaborate with Techies who will have been using the telephone systems and VoIP for social change.

What The day will be divided up in to two sections, a morning of presentations about campaigns which have successfully used the phone system (mobile, voip, and landline). We will have presentations on some of the applications which have been built for these campaigns.

The afternoon will be devoted to workshops to evaluate the needs of advocacy organizations and technical workshops to share skills in building out the systems.

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[edit] Morning / Presentations

[edit] David C. Troy, CEO, Popvox LLC

David Troy is a technology entrepreneur, software developer, and contributor to many open source projects, including Asterisk and OpenSER. David will discuss and demonstrate distributed phonebanking tools developed for use in the 2006 US elections. The Popvox applications have been developed using AJAX & Web 2.0 methodologies and are designed for use by a wide audience.

David will share stories about the experience of deploying these technologies, the specific benefits which were realized by campaigns, and practical tips for designing technology for a large audience of users. Also included will be an open discussion of the potential future of technology in advocacy & politics, and ways to engage more of the public in the political process.

Located in Washington DC, David has spent the last year discussing the potential of current technologies with political and technology thought-leaders. The open discussion of ideas should be a spark for everyone's imagination!

[edit] Simon Rowland - CEO, Direct Leap Technologies, Inc.

Simon Rowland will very briefly demonstrate some new tools developed and field-tested during the 2004 and 2006 Canadian Federal Elections, including an advanced system to send automated phone calls for national Get Out the Vote, identifying sign locations, and to drive crowds to events. Direct Leap Technologies has spent years applying advanced technology to the problems faced by nonprofits, and we are excited to exchange ideas.

The focus is an exchange of ideas for using the telephone to advance the work of mission-based nonprofits:

  • Sending an interactive phone call to everyone on a city block with Google Maps
  • Doubling phonebank productivity for field organizers or grassroots campaigns using a predictive dialer service
  • Surveying constituents and performing automated voter profiling to identify interest in specific issues
  • How to build and use a 'profile' to micro-target individual supporters with a custom email events listing, to print a different leaflet for each household, or for fundraising and social issue education.
  • Keeping members informed of breaking events, addressing rumors, and asking members to take action

Your takeaways from this event will be an exciting set of ideas of what is possible and how to use it within your member organization or in your advocacy campaigns.

[edit] Isabela D Fernandes - São Paulo, Brazil

Isabela will discuss telephone tools as they apply to marginalized comunities in Brazil, including contacting human rights workers, distributing information amongst independent media. Podcasting, audio streaming over the telephone, free voicemail, and outcalling will be discussed.

[edit] Afternoon / Workshops

All workshops are expected to change!

[edit] Advocacy Tools

[edit] Membership Organizations

[edit] Call Center Systems

[edit] RSVP & Registration

[edit] Other Events Nearby

  • 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit - February 21st to 23rd in Oakland, California - Wiki
  • The Summit will be a first-of-its-kind convening to bring together the range of developers, technologists, managers, eRiders, integrators, users and other practitioners who self-identify under the umbrella of roles around “developing nonprofit software”. The event will provide an opportunity both to gather as a community and to take stock of the field, while building connections and capacity.

[edit] Conference Management

[edit] Media Wiki stuff

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