News – Bellwether Technology, Inc.

Contract Award

1 June 2020 – Bellwether Technology, Inc. (BTI) is pleased to announce our performance as a subcontract member of the Credence Management Solutions team awarded a multi-year contract for support of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)’s Defense Automatic Addressing System (DAAS) program office.

Under this contract, Bellwether supports Credence, and the DLA DAAS client with web application lifecycle and technical support services to sustain and enhance DAAS web applications, and Cyber Security expertise and guidance for Risk Management Framework (RMF) compliance including audit support, POA&M development and tracking, vulnerability analysis, and risk remediation.

Contract Award

21 July 2018 – Bellwether Technology, Inc. (BTI) is a subcontract member of the US Information Technology/Partnet, Inc. team awarded a multi-year contract for support of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)’s enterprise eCommerce application – FedMall.

FedMall is the cloud-hosted DoD system for supply and procurement supporting over 90,000 named users worldwide, 60 million product listings, and over $350 million in annual procurement actions. BTI personnel provide support for software and workflow design, maintenance and development, IA code compliance, and software testing and validation utilizing Agile/Scrum lifecycle methodologies.

Beta Campaign Success!

November 2015 – CMC live beta campaign is a success!

Bellwether Technology, Inc. is pleased to announce the success of the live beta campaign.

The candidate, Mr. Wiley Johnson (now Mayor Elect Wiley Johnson), won his bid for Mayor of Summerville. Bellwether Technology, Inc. is very pleased to have participated in Mayor Elect Johnson’s campaign. The feedback received during the course of the campaign provided vital insight into the use and refinement of the CMC application. Mayor Elect Johnson had this to say about CMC after his election…

“Your help has been of great value to us.”

“You guys were a big help.”

~Wiley Johnson, Candidate for Mayor 2015

Thank you Mr. Mayor, and best wishes for continued success for you, and the people of Summerville from all of us here at Bellwether Technology, Inc!

Subscriptions & Image Cropping

September 2015 – CMC enhancements for email subscriptions and image cropping deployed

CMC-logo_bubble-4c_small Bellwether Technology, Inc. deployed additional enhancements to CMC features this weekend.

Online Image Cropping – Now when loading images in the Campaign Setup for the image slide show, or the campaign logo, the system provides a tool for cropping the image prior to storing it. The crop outline is configured to maintain the perfect aspect ratio (height + width) to fit within the image area designated. This means you can use any image you wish, and avoid the hassle and guesswork of trying to create a perfectly sized image yourself prior to loading into CMC. A real time saver!

Join Us! Email Subscription – Campaign supporters viewing the campaign’s public CMC website can now sign-up for email notifications without having to complete a long form. Just name and email address, and click submit… DONE! The subscribing users will appear in the campaign’s CMC admin site, on the Join Us! page. If a campaign has opted for the Email Blaster a la carte feature, these subscribers will be included in Email Blasts when a campaign selects “Constituents that joined the campaign” as the recipient group.

Other back-end improvements have been deployed as well to improve overall system performance. Just one more step in our quest to provide your campaign the best tools possible.

How to run for office

August 2015 – Effective Campaign Management

Thinking about running for elected office? Considering a career in campaign management? Not sure how to get started? You may be in luck… as part of their 2015-2016 Course Listings the HARVARD Kennedy School of Government has a class for that!

DPI-324: Running for Office and Managing Campaigns
Course is designed to show students how to set up a state-of-the-art political campaign operation to win elective office in the United States and around the world. It demystifies the modern political campaign by showing students how to write a winning campaign plan including how to set up and run literally every department in a campaign. Read more here...

Email Blaster Feature Launch!

August 2015 – CMC Launches the new “Email Blaster” a la carte feature

Campaigns are all about communications, and reaching the target audience through multiple media and communication types. Bellwether Technology, Inc. has launched it’s newest CMC a la carte feature named Email Blaster.

Email Blaster allows campaigns to develop email communications within CMC’s rich text system, and send them to targeted areas of the campaign’s constituency and supporters. Users who view the campaign’s public CMC website can subscribe to receive campaign updates via email. Campaigns can send messages out to groups who have subscribed, donated, or requested campaign information; campaign staff and volunteers; and any other individual or organization who have submitted their email address, or been entered into the system by the campaign.

Campaign’s can generate multiple email templates to make re-use simple, and CMC even scrubs the addresses to ensure messages aren’t sent to an email address more than once to prevent spamming supporter’s inboxes.

Email Blaster’s capabilities are a vital tool in maintaining communications with a campaign’s base, eliciting support, and reaching a broad audience.

Fundraising in the electronic world

June 2015 – Raising money Online

No matter your political stance, its undeniable President Obama did something in his 2008 campaign that has yet to be matched… he engaged social media tools, technologies, and a new model for campaign communications that has revolutionized the concepts of tech/communications operations in campaign management. Check out the multi-part series below to learn just how the Obama machine made it happen.

Learning from Obama’s Financial Steamroller: How to Raise Money Online
www.epolitics.com
MAY 15, 2009
Colin Delany

Obama’s platform may have envisioned a grand reform of the political system, but the primary change he brought to political fundraising was to do more of it than anyone in history: …”Obama Raised Half a Billion Online,” Jose Antonio Vargas, Washington Post, 11/20/2008″

…the bulk of the cash he raised in the end — some 75% — came from people who gave $200 or more over the course of the campaign.

Read the complete article here…

Private Beta Launch!

May 2015 – CMC launches live campaign private beta test

Bellwether Technology, Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of CMC CORE+ beta with a live political campaign. This live campaign will provide us the opportunity to stress and refine the system as we continue progress toward public launch in Jauary 2016. The ability to see the product in action, see how it’s used, and gain real-world feedback is vital to development of a stable product that accurately serves the needs of the customers.