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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Geocoding For Legislative Advocacy
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 This seminar will be available on the TechSoup website along with past webinar presentations: http://bit.ly/tsgwebinarshttp://bit.ly/tsgwebinars You will receive a link to this presentation, material and links. After the webinar, you can ask follow-up questions in our Community Forum: http://bit.ly/geocodingforum http://bit.ly/geocodingforum Twitter hashtag: #techsoup You are being recorded…
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Geocoding For Legislative Advocacy
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Presenters Kyla Hunt Facilitator Thomas Taylor Presenter Assisting with chat: Jon Rush Abby Fretz Presenter
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Cicero Legislative Information API: 5,000 Credits – http://bit.ly/CiceroAPI Cicero Legislative Matching API
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Agenda Cicero and Azavea About Azavea Cicero API – What is Cicero? Features – Key differentiators – What is an API? – Can I use an API? – How can I use Cicero? Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance About Us What started it all How we have used Cicero since
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 What Does Azavea Do? Geospatial + web + mobile – Software development – Spatial analysis Bcorp - www.bcorporation.net Founded in 2000 27 people Based in Philadelphia – Also Boston & Minneapolis
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Clients, Industries and Partners Social and Human Services Arts and Humanities Elections & Politics Land and Water Conservation Public Health Economic Development Public Safety Municipal Services
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Azavea & Nonprofits
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Azavea & Nonprofits
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 WHAT DOES CICERO DO?
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 API: Geocoding Assign latitude/longitude coordinates to your addresses
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 API: District Matching Use address-level geocoding - the most precise method of geocoding - for your district matches
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 API: Boundary Map Service Easily visualize district boundaries
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Data: Legislative Districts and Elected Officials Local, state, national and international districts and elected officials information
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Data: Election Data Upcoming election events and in-depth historic election event data
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Data: Non-Legislative District Data The Cicero API provides more than just legislative districts
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 HOW IS CICERO DIFFERENT? I’ve heard of other district matching and elected official lookup tools…
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Address vs. Zip Code District Matching
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Accuracy and Reliability – Our team consists of GIS analysts and political data specialists – We track general and special elections around the world – We update the Cicero API’s data on a continuous basis.
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 2010 Redistricting Cicero provides lookups based on: – Legislative boundaries currently in use – Legislative boundary plans that have been officially approved but will not take effect until the next election
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 OK, SO WHAT EXACTLY IS AN “API”?
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Application Programming Interface (API) A simple language used by one program to communicate with another web-based program Enables software developers to design tools that are powered by an externally hosted service We do the work to maintain an extensive legislative boundary and elected official database Your internal application (CRM, website, etc.) sends a request to us and we automatically return the requested data to you.
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 IF NOT, WHO CAN? Can I integrate an API into our organization’s software or website?
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 –Are you comfortable using a command line? –Have you ever used an API before? –Do you have some software programming knowledge? –Who might be able to implement the Cicero API for me? A web designer Software developer
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 WHAT COULD MY ORGANIZATION DO WITH CICERO?
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Your Website Provide Users with a Simple Address Lookup Tool
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 http://ourphiladelphia.org/
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Your Website Disseminate News by District
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 http://gov.oregonlive.com/
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Website Mashups: Integrate to display additional data
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Your Database Stamp Your Address Database
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Your Advocacy Create maps of assets by district
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 QUESTIONS?
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE Introducing….
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Advocacy and Call to Action
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Batch geocoding and district matching Art-Reach Member Organizations in the district of the Hon. Chaka Fattah
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 FixPhillyDistricts.com City Council Redistricting Contest Timeline: August 5 – August 28, 2011 458 Users Signed Up 1,200+ Plans Created Over 70 Valid Plans Submitted for Scoring 31 Plans Submitted To Contest
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Current City Council District Boundaries
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Contest Winner’s City Council District Plan
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 New, Approved City Council Districts
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 QUESTIONS?
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Contact Us Abby Fretz, Azavea Project Manager Cicero, DistrictBuilder afretz@azavea.com 215.701.7503 www.azavea.com/cicero Thomas Taylor Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance Director of Information Technology thomast@philaculture.org 215.399.3525 www.philaculture.org
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 Who is TechSoup? TechSoup is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. As of June 2010, TechSoup served more than 127,000 organizations, distributed more than 6.3 million technology donations, and enabled nonprofit recipients to save more than $1.8 billion in IT expenses in 33 countries around the world.
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Conference Call: 866-740-1260 Access Code: 6339392 TechSoup is part of TechSoup Global, is working towards the day when every nonprofit, library, and social benefit organization on the planet has the technology, knowledge, and resources they need to operate at their full potential. Who is TechSoup?
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