No one has developed a quick-start web service to help member-based campaigns get the three things they live for:
Member-based organizations need, and many deserve, a comprehensive open-source kit they can use to grow their three sources of energy: Buzz, People and Money. If we can help them grow those three flowers in their garden, we prosper and the world gets better (because member-based organizations are forced to be clued). Member-based organizations must be, by definition, blog-based. The great thing about blogs is that they present potential authors (members) with a sensible entry point to contribute their individual gifts to the commonwealth of ideas: a Title and a Body. Members' posts are a grace to their community. Our straightforward obligation is to transmute members' contributions into a coherent archive and a foundation for a community's future.
There's an essential XYZ axis for blogs that get traction:X= the number of posts per day
Y= the number of comments per post
Z= the number of external links per day
If an organization's blog posts per day exceed a certain minimum X, and those posts attract a satisfactory number of Y comments per post (correlating to Z external links per day), then the blog will hit a tipping point that means it has achieved traction.
A further objective is that a site should earn a reasonable distribution of links from the three nodes of the blogosphere that Technorati tracks: bloggers with 1) a lot, 2) some, and 3) a little authority.
The purpose of the Client Dashboard is to help clients reach out and purchase the X and the Y and the Z of success. It doesn't matter if an organization happens to have a crew of great writers on staff (unlikely) or if their existing community includes a raft of ready, willing and able writers (also unlikely) or if, instead of paying its employees to blog, it hires outside experts (what's the difference?), the organization has a primary obligation to be interesting to its community.
That's it. You're done. The only variable any organization can control is the number and quality of posts it puts up each day. The number and quality of posts dictates the number and quality of comments attracted. A lot of quality comments = external links.