[Sosfbay-discuss] Green Party of Canada page as example of functional home page

[alexcathy at aol.com]

I have been told that some political campaigns have made good use of "social networking" software for really functional campaign web sites.? I have been that there are web sites where it is "easy" for volunteers to sign-on to specific organizing events.? Unfortunately, I have never actually seen any campaign web sites that even come close to such functionality.? In fact, to me, most campaign web sites tend to be cluttered with a lot of distracting "junk" (Peter Thottam's web sites are a mess even though he is obviously very proud of them).? 



Furthermore, Facebook political pages I've seen so far, have been disappointing, too. Then tend to be just static pages.? I haven't seen a Facebook political page yet with as much of a serious exchange of views as these conventional e-lists.? I like Facebook as a personal diversion, but I really don't think exchanging recipes or playing games like "What Musical Interval Are You?" is going to make a revolution. ? 



Does anybody on this list have examples of good web sites using "social networks" (e.g., really good Facebook pages, etc.). ? 





Alex Walker


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Examples of

'media kit' for Frank de Jong,
party leader of the Green Party of Ontario
http://www.gpo.ca/node/130
http://www.gpo.ca/node/26


'people pages on their site'

Elizabeth May, Leader, Green Part of Canada
http://greenparty.ca/en/about-us/elizabeth-may


Others
http://www.gpo.ca/node/1289
http://www.gpo.ca/node/1711
http://www.gpo.ca/node/1999
http://www.janesterk.ca/2009-campaign/candidate.html
http://www.greenparty.bc.ca/jane-sterk
http://www.greenparty.bc.ca/drina-read
http://www.gpo.ca/node/1709
http://www.gpo.ca/node/32
http://www.gpo.ca/node/1035
http://www.gpo.ca/node/2010
http://www.gpo.ca/node/2005


and blogs

http://www.gpo.ca/blogs/leaders
http://www.gpo.ca/node/1825

http://www.gpo.ca/blogs/campaign


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