Some Great Ideas From Annapolis … And Will It Be Broomfield or Colorado Springs?
(Cross-Posted to DemNotes at www.DemNotes.com)
This morning has been an outstanding morning of trainings here in Annapolis, at the Spring meeting of the Association of State Democratic Chairs (ASDC). I’m just concluding one of the most helpful trainings that I’ve been to in a long time at these types of meetings — a Field training that I think will help county parties across Colorado.
The DNC has introduced a really amazing new model for county parties and how to create more activities and energy in the county party meetings. There are a lot of components to it, but I’m going to head straight back to my county and talk to our Chair, Kevin Bradley, about how to implement it there. One of the long-standing problems that we have as local parties is how to engage new volunteers and activists within the structure of running these regular meetings and yet giving activities to our volunteers. I’m really excited to come back and share this with all of you — if you’re having some problems with long meetings that don’t seem to accomplish anything and turn off new volunteers, please, please, please talk to me about how we can work to make some changes that will energize your local party.
We’ve also had some other very interesting trainings, as well. There was a great communications training earlier today that discussed a lot of new technologies that I’m hoping we will be able to implement in the months to come in Colorado. Without going into too much detail, I’m really excited about what these technologies will do to help us communicate to all parts of the state, especially those areas outside of the Denver metro area.
I do have some photos up (finally) on the site. You can view them at:
http://www.DemNotes.com/photos
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Back home, I’ve received word that we have two bids for the State Convention and Assembly: one from Broomfield Dems, the other from El Paso County Dems. The deadline was yesterday, so the Site Selection Committee will be meeting in the weeks ahead, including site visits, in the hopes that we’ll have a recommendation for the Executive Committee by mid-June. I haven’t seen either bid, but I know that the State Party should be well-served by either location for our 2008 State Assembly and Convention!