“What’s an activism campaign these days without a Facebook presence?”

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   jon

   June 29, 2008

   From Ari Melber on The Nation’s Campaign Matters blog:

   One Democratic Internet consultant predicted that Obama’s reaction could reveal his commitment to meaningful engagement with supporters. “How Obama responds will tell us a great deal about both his willingness to listen to input from his supporters and what influence the MyBarackObama community has on the campaign itself,” said the operative, who wished to remain anonymous while working on another campaign. “In the meantime, this is a huge opportunity for Obama’s supporters to organize around an issue, not just the candidate, and take action beyond using their credit card.”

   Full article here

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   jon

   June 30, 2008

   mail to the list; also cross-posted on OpenLeft

   Still haven’t gotten into the MSM or tech blogospheres (other than Wired’s Threat Level), but these are really solid links

   • Obama Network Organizes and Revolts Over Spyingby Ari Melber on The Nation’s Campaign Matters, June 29. digg here.
   • Networking Group Opposing FISA Cave On Obama’s Web Site Grows And Grows, Greg Sargent, TPM Election Central, June 30
   • Obama Critics Find Support on Obama’s Web Site, Brad Haynes in the Wall Street Journal’sWashington Wire, June 30.
   • Telecom Amnesty Foes Lobby Obama Using Obama Tech by Ryan Singel on Wired.com’s Threat Level, June 30. digg here.
   • Obama Supporters Petition Obama … by Michael Scherer on Time’s Swampland, June 30.

   Jerome Armstrong also mentioned the group on myDD but didn’t include a link (instead linking to Ari’s article). Sigh. If you’re blogging about the group, please include a link to the group’s page. Every extra click people have to make to join means that as many as half the people won’t bother; and including more links boosts us in Google (etc.) rankings. [If you get a chance, please include a link to the wiki too!]

   We also got mentioned on The Next Right but they seem to think there are only 140 people in the group. I decided not to break the news to them 🙂 Still, Allen (the blogger) gets it:

   The Obama campaign has made the courageous decision to keep his dissidents under his tent and armed with the tools his campaign can provide to organize. Can you imagine a Bush campaign reacting like this? I can’t. But if we are going to campaign effectively on the web we must understand that power resides in the grassroots and the days of autocratic control from above are over.

   Check the wiki for a full list. If you’ve seen others, please add them! http://get-fisa-right.wetpaint.com/

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3. 

   jon

   July 1, 2008

   We’re on Slashdot’s front page, in Telecom Amnesty Foes On the Move … w00t w00t!

   My comment:

   There’s a lot more information about the Senator Obama – Please Vote NO on Telecom Immunity – Get FISA Right my.barackobama.com campaign on the Get FISA right wiki. Check it out, and please join the group! Mike Stark’s Will Obama feel the sting of social networking? on OpenLeft gives some great context on the campaign. And there’s a Facebook group too. Are we web 2.0 or what?

   Almost 7000 members, and #4 on the top 10 groups list. We grew at 3%/hour over the last hour, which is really fast for this early in the morning (yesterday it was under 1%/hour at this time). We should get to the #2 spot sometime today, which would make us the largest grassroots group there.

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4. Liminal states » The first thing to do: set up a wiki

   July 1, 2008

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5. Lamps.

   March 18, 2011

   Lamps….

   Lamps….

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