Engage
Goal: Show your willingness to participate with staff and leadership. Demonstrate current capacity of your constituent engagement.
Commitment: About 1-2 hours.
Step 1: Secure internal engagement from your organization
- Get people excited and share the opportunities for participation with your decision makers
- Identify internal champions and project managers – Who in the organization will be participating and how much time will they commit? It is suggested at least two person-hours per week be allocated to the project.
- Demonstrate buy-in from the organizational leadership and a desire to participate with A4G.
Step 2: Engage your constituents:
Perform an audience analysis or summarize your existing observations on how your constituents are using internet-enabled tools. The purpose of this is to; show that there is a market need, demonstrate enthusiasm and verify adoption capacity in your community of impact. This summary will establish a benchmark for your current level of technology engagement. If you do not have a constituent survey, create one using an accessible form of technology like: a google form, a text message survey, an email newsletter request, brief phone poll, in-person survey, or if you have time, an informal focus group.
Deliverable 1:
- Express your interest and support for this project with a Message of Intent via email (part 1) with the name and contact info of your project manager.
- Provide us with a simple paragraph or two on your constituent findings (part 2). How do your constituents engage with web-enabled technology?
- Register your primary point of contact on Applicationsforgood.com.
➤ Level 1: Worksheet. Constituent engagement questions.
You will want to ask a series of questions like these, or introduce your own:
Q. What sort of cell phone do you use?
Options: a) Feature phone, b) Cell phone, c) Smart phone brand optional, d) None, e) Don’t know
Q. What do you use your cell phone for the most?
Options. a) Calls, b) Text, c) Internet, d) Games, e) Maps, f) All equally,
Q. What do you use your cell phone for the second most?
Options. a) Calls, b) Text, c) Internet, d) Games, e) Maps
Q. If you could create an application for your phone, what would it do?
Options: text field
Q. What could we do or create for you to use via phone or sms that would help you?
Options: text field
Q. If we provided an application like xxxxxx how often would you use it?
Options. a) Daily, b) Weekly, c) Rarely, d) Never
