Introduction

Vision

We are simply a small group of people with some shared ideals and beliefs in the context of Mendocino as a community, specifically concerning how this community can govern itself to the greatest benefit to the individual members of that community, and hence to the whole.

Mission

As a political party we seek to realize this vision by striving to elect officials to office that share our ideals and will work to achieve our long term vision.

Goal

Our overall goal is to bring our government into harmony with the well being of our citizens. This goal evolves with each election cycle and the candidates that step into the fray. Our near term goals are defined in the context of each election.
But our overall Mission remains to elect candidates to office that will best advance our effort to meet our goals and thus move towards realizing our vision.

Purpose

A web site is one face of an entity that influences, in fact may define, the entity to the world. As such, the public's impression of the entity, i.e., the MCDCC, the IMDC and the Party in general, can greatly impact our ability to achieve our goals.

There are many social media platforms, but in particular Facebook is predominant. So why do we need a web site? Facebook is a PUSH media – broadcast to the ether, and perhaps someone will see. The NOW is important. Web sites are a PULL media – posts to the web site are archival. There is some overlap. For example, a calendar can be effective on both platforms, but it isn't likely that we would post meeting minutes on Facebook, and expect to search for club documents or past actions among all the posting on a Facebook page.

Our web site serves four basic purposes:

• Present our face to the public
• Provide a platform to deliver our message
• Provide a platform to communicate and support club activities
• Provide a platform on which to establish our current and historic presence

Constraints

1. We want to serve all of our stakeholders, but that is a fairly tall order. We need to meet our immediate needs in the context of the next election cycle.
2. Some desirable features require careful management – e.g. Text Messaging capability

Stakeholders

We need to understand our audience so that we can build an effective website that achieves our purpose. Our audience is comprised of several groups of stakeholders.

The Stakeholders:

• Public - anyone who can access the web site
• Democrats – registered Democrats, but not club members
• Club Members in Good Standing - paid up members of one of the three clubs
• Contributors – e.g., IMDC Executive Committee

Website Organization

The website has two main segments:

1. Public – anyone can access the website, but only to view content; and perhaps join us and/or donate to the club
2. Member – members can LOGIN and contribute to the content subject to several capability levels. Members can use other member-specific features.

You can access the website at: inlandmendodems.org

Capabilities

The website needs to provide the following information, access to activities and documents and ability for visitors to join the club.

Information

About the Club

• Vision – Why we exist. What do we want the world to look like if we are successful
• Goals – What we do
• Mission – How we do it
• Values – Our core beliefs
• By Laws
• Executive Committee
• Donate

Democratic Party (Links)

• Central Committee
• Other Clubs
• CADEM

Government (Links)

Electeds

• BoS Members
• Assembly Member
• State Senator
• Governor
• 2nd District Representative
• Senior Senator
• Junior Senator

Bodies

• City Councils
• Mendocino County
• California Government
• Federal (House & Senate, WH)

Action

Calendar

Get Involved

• Membership (Join the Club)
• Join Contacts List
• Activities/Projects/Volunteer

MIGS

• Member Login
• User Guide
• Document Access

Document System

MCDCC Document System

The website includes a Document Management System enabling archiving, cataloging and searching documents of the IMDC.

Features

• Hierarchical organization of documents – easily extendable
• Templates for creating meeting agendas and recording meeting minutes
• Automatically linking documents – e.g., Committee reports to agendas and minutes
• Hierarchical and contextual searching
• Private documents and public accessible documents
• Club specific documents – access granted by each club for tjeir club specific documents
• MCDCC Specific documents
• Access levels allowing full editing to view only levels
• Optional capability to allow comments on published documents
• Print and download documents
• Rich document capability includes:
  • formatted text
  • graphics
  • audio
  • video
  • pdf
  • linking to internal and external documents and urls