The presentation lays out our vision to streamline civic engagement and enable personalized political reporting, and shares examples of what we've built so far.
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Yes We Will: Simplifying civic engagement & personalized political reporting
1. Find. Follow. Engage.
Helping news organizations provide personalized political
reporting and increased civic engagement.
2. YesWeWill brings journalism & democracy into the 21st century
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MyRepresentatives
Provides personalized political-reporting
& civic-engagement solutions to news
organizations
YesWeWill
Makes it easy for voters, politicians,
governments and advocacy groups to
connect with each other
It features
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Today, news organizations disempower and confuse their audience by not
providing personalized political information – and the decline of local
news has made the problem even worse!
Representative
District A
Representative
District B
Representative
District C
Representative
District D
Congress to vote
on XX
A bipartisan group of
representatives
agreed to …
Traditional model fails to answer
• Who/which are my elected officials?
• What do my elected officials say
about the issue, and how do they
plan to vote?
• How can I give them feedback to
potentially influence their vote?
Rep District A
Position
Rep District B
Position
Rep District C
Position
Rep District D
Position
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Today, news organizations disempower and confuse their audience by not
providing personalized political information – and the decline of local
news has made the problem even worse!
Our vision is to end the frustration by enabling personalized
reporting and making it easy for audiences to instantly engage
with their elected officials
6. Phase 1: Enable news organizations to launch the MyReps application
right from their site so users can easily find and give feedback to their
elected officials just by embedding a Twitter-like button.
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7. Phase 2: Deliver personalized political insights so your audience can see
where their elected officials stand on key issues & give them feedback
from right within the news site
Future
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8. 66 Cooper St, Memphis Submit
2. Enter your address to find
your elected officials and
give them feedback.
3. Share your feelings and
ideas about this story with
them.
4. Enter your email Send
While I think the Crosstown
project is a wonderful project,
I don’t think the County
should have invested $5M in
it.
Sincerely,
Joe Constituent
The FOX News Feedback Tracker
Phase 3: Aggregate, analyze & display feedback by political district
to increase understanding of what voters really think
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9. YesWeWill brings democracy into the 21st century
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MyRepresentatives
Provides personalized political-reporting
& civic-engagement solutions to news
organizations
YesWeWill
Makes it easy for voters, politicians,
governments and advocacy groups to
connect with each other
10. Voter A
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Today, it’s difficult for voters to connect with candidates, advocacy
orgs and governments and vice versa
• There is no single place voters can go to easily
connect with all of their aligned candidates
• Candidates, advocacy orgs and governments
struggle to find & engage voters
Congressional
Representative
State Senator
State
Assemblyman
County Mayor
County Council
Etc
US Senator
?
Voter A
Voter B
Voter C
Voter D
Voter E
Voter D
Voter E
Candidate 1
?
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YesWeWill! provides a single place for voters, politicians,
advocacy orgs and government agencies to connect.
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YesWeWill enables users to subscribe to updates based on
their address, interest and political district
Subscribe to updates from:
Elected officials
Candidates
Government Agencies
Advocacy Organizations
Subscribe
Enter email address
• Instead of the voter having to search for information about the candidates in 2022 or 2024,
they will receive information about their aligned candidates automagically
Enter your address to find and subscribe
to updates from your aligned candidates,
elected officials, government agencies,
and organizations you care about.
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YesWeWill enables politicians, government agencies & advocacy
organizations to send updates to their specific constituents
Enter subject line
Attend our online Townhall on October 21st at 7 p.m.
Enter message body
Dear Janet,
I hope you are able to make it to our online townhall on
October 21st at 7 p.m. I’ll be there to answer all your
questions about the topics you care about.
Sincerely,
Josefina Cho
Your Congressional Democratic Candidate
• The candidate and local party organizations instantly get a low-cost way to connect with
voters with very little effort.
• As the number of subscribers grow, the value of the site will grow as well for candidates, et al
We will automatically route the
email to candidate, elected
official or organization’s
aligned constituents, enabling
the delivery of precisely
targeted messaging with
virtually zero prep work by the
senders
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To date all the work has been done by an amazing team of
volunteers, working weekends, weeknights & early mornings
Richard Sims
CTO
Joshua Myers
Developer
Chandraleka Cobb
Graphic Designer
Currently in process of conducting customer discovery and exploring partnership
and monetization opportunities as we determine our strategy moving forward
Kevin Mireles
CEO
Notes de l'éditeur
Agenda
The problem
Competition
Potential opportunity
Financing needs
How did they vote on the issue in the past?
How does their stance align with other organizations I support?
How did they vote on the issue in the past?
How does their stance align with other organizations I support?
leverage its existing data that single point of integration into many services and multiple service providers.