New addition to the “Winning in 2010” discussion of website/CRM vendors — the Democratic Voter Activation Network (VAN) is now hosting campaign websites and providing CRM services to candidates, alongside such other Dem campaign packages such as Wired for Change/DLCCWeb. The VAN is much better known for its work behind the scenes providing voter-information databases to help candidates with phone-banking, block-walking and other grassroots outreach, but they’re now providing the additional site-hosting/mass-messaging services that most campaigns need.
This move adds to an array of integrated online campaign packages available to Democrats; Republican candidates don’t seem to have access to such technological riches (they more often have to piece together a web presence using software and services from several vendors). Which R vendor will jump in and fill the gap? As a Dem, I can hope that the answer is, none of them…
– cpd
[…] on the heels of the VAN’s decision to offer website hosting and CRM services, the Democratic voter turnout operation has decided to move even farther from its core […]