Katherine Thank you for your prompt response. I am surprised that at no stage would anyone have seen any reason to question whether a political strategist was the best person to be consulting over running a strategy survey.
"Rogol" On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Katherine Maher <[email protected]> wrote: > Rogol, > > They are a vendor we have used in the past to conduct focus groups and run > surveys for the annual fundraiser in the five largest English speaking > countries. We were satisfied with the quality of their work in the past, so > we contacted them again to discuss whether they had appropriate expertise > for this instance. > > I do not have particular insight as to how we came to work with them in the > first place a few years ago. As with many vendors we work with, I expect it > was a combination of research, referral, and/or past successful working > relationship. > > > > On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 14:11 Rogol Domedonfors <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Katherine > > At some point it would be interesting to learn how the external consultants > were selected. I note, for example, that Lake Associates describes itself > as working "side by side with our clients on developing communications and > paid media, targeting supporters, and honing the messages that win > persuadable voters" and Celinda Lake as "one of the Democratic Party's > leading political strategists". On what grounds was this company selected > to work on "proposed market research and recommendations on firms or > contractors (including Lake) who could conduct desk and/or generative > research", which seems very far from their self-proclaimed field of > expertise? > > "Rogol" > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > -- > Katherine Maher > > Wikimedia Foundation > 149 New Montgomery Street > San Francisco, CA 94105 > > +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 > +1 (415) 712 4873 > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
