Leader Hoyer Announces DemCom 5.0 — Major Upgrade to Official House Democratic Intranet
"I'm pleased to introduce a significantly revamped DemCom to House Democratic staff and also—for the first time—to Senate Democratic staff. DemCom is a powerful tool that helps House and Senate Democratic staff serve the American people even more effectively," Leader Hoyer said. "I will continue to work to ensure that Congressional Democrats and the federal government adopt the latest technologies to best serve our constituents and the American public."
DemCom 5.0’s major updates include:
Today’s updates build upon DemCom’s existing major features:
- Bill database – Democratic staffers can go to bill pages on DemCom for any of the 10,000+ bills before Congress and find a wealth of information from inside and outside of Congress. As the primary means of organizing all information, DemCom dynamically consumes all of the bulk legislative data provided by the GPO and LOC. DemCom also supplements Congressionally-provided data with 3rd party legislative data from sites like GovTrack.us and Popvox.com, and from intra-Caucus sources like LD emails.
- DemCom Directory – The daily-updated DemCom staff directory includes all 16,000+ current Congressional staff from both parties and both chambers. The directory includes the “issue areas covered” data that shows who in each office is responsible for each legislative issue area. DemCom uses KnowWho, the same data source that most advocacy and lobby firms rely upon. The data is updated daily from KnowWho’s calling through offices and monitoring announcements. Staffers can easily query the data, building custom lists, and then easily export via copy-paste all the emails from any custom-built list.
- Resume Bank – Paired with the public portal at MajorityLeader.gov/resumes, all Democratic staff can search, browse, and leave recommendations on any of the thousands of recently submitted resumes. Since it was originally launched in 2012, over 10,000 resumes have been submitted and there have been tens of thousands unique visits by House Democratic staff viewing the resumes on DemCom--thousands of which have used diversity filters when viewing resumes, a significant success in our ongoing effort to increase staff diversity.
- "The Digital Success Project" - A place for Democratic Offices to browse trailblazing examples of proactively reaching out to constituents through online ads, emails, or other digital methods. It answers the common question asked on the Press Secretaries email list: “Do you have a good example of…?,” and highlights not just compelling imagery and text, but metrics on which success should be built upon.
- LC letter library – A space for staffers who manage the large amounts of constituent correspondence to collaborate and share information.
- Many others including the Job Announcements board, archives of Floor Updates and Daily Talking Points, Annual vendor surveys, and the annual Member Online All-Star competition.
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