Upcoming agendas and search subscriptions
I think a lot these days about what I can personally do in the face of the oncoming storm. There’s lots of things we as a collective can do, but I also think that there are each things we can uniquely do, actions that our history or skills or community enable us to do that no-one else would do quite as well.
For the foreseeable future, CivicBand and it’s various sister projects is what I can do, making sure that the best coverage possible exists on local issues while others focus on national. What can you do? And can CivicBand help with that?
Since my last email, I’ve added another 100+ sites, largely in Wisconsin. If you know activists or journalists in WI who could use this, please forward this to them or send them to me.
I’ve also added the ability, linked right from the homepage of every site, to see the upcoming agendas we know about. I got annoyed having to craft queries to see the upcoming meetings where I live, so now this is deployed for every CivicBand site.
But the most exciting thing I did this week was get email alerts working. Soon, you’re going to be able to subscribe to updates from CivicBand sites, getting an email whenever we have a new batch of meetings or only when a new search term match is found. This is going to go into closed beta next week, and if you want to be part of the closed beta, reply to this.
This coming week, I plan to spend some time building a pipeline for California campaign finance data at the county and city level. When that project is live, you’ll be the first to hear about it.
Until then, thanks for reading and don’t hesitate to reach out.
Philip