<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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" (</font><em>Peter Thottam's</em><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> web sites are a mess even though he is obviously very proud of them). <br>
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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. <br>
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Does anybody on this list have examples of good web sites using "social networks" (e.g., really good Facebook pages, etc.). <br>
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Alex Walker<br>
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From: Mike Feinstein <mfeinstein@feinstein.org><br>
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Sent: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 9:39 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [GPCA-MediaComm] Green Party of Canada page as example of functional home page<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Examples of<br>
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'media kit' for Frank de Jong,<br>
party leader of the Green Party of Ontario<br>
<a href="http://www.gpo.ca/node/130" target="_blank">http://www.gpo.ca/node/130</a><br>
<a href="http://www.gpo.ca/node/26" target="_blank">http://www.gpo.ca/node/26</a><br>
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'people pages on their site'<br>
<br>
Elizabeth May, Leader, Green Part of Canada<br>
<a href="http://greenparty.ca/en/about-us/elizabeth-may" target="_blank">http://greenparty.ca/en/about-us/elizabeth-may</a><br>
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Others<br>
<a href="http://www.gpo.ca/node/1289" target="_blank">http://www.gpo.ca/node/1289</a><br>
<a href="http://www.gpo.ca/node/1711" target="_blank">http://www.gpo.ca/node/1711</a><br>
<a href="http://www.gpo.ca/node/1999" target="_blank">http://www.gpo.ca/node/1999</a><br>
<a href="http://www.janesterk.ca/2009-campaign/candidate.html" target="_blank">http://www.janesterk.ca/2009-campaign/candidate.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.greenparty.bc.ca/jane-sterk" target="_blank">http://www.greenparty.bc.ca/jane-sterk</a><br>
<a href="http://www.greenparty.bc.ca/drina-read" target="_blank">http://www.greenparty.bc.ca/drina-read</a><br>
<a href="http://www.gpo.ca/node/1709" target="_blank">http://www.gpo.ca/node/1709</a><br>
<a href="http://www.gpo.ca/node/32" target="_blank">http://www.gpo.ca/node/32</a><br>
<a href="http://www.gpo.ca/node/1035" target="_blank">http://www.gpo.ca/node/1035</a><br>
<a href="http://www.gpo.ca/node/2010" target="_blank">http://www.gpo.ca/node/2010</a><br>
<a href="http://www.gpo.ca/node/2005" target="_blank">http://www.gpo.ca/node/2005</a><br>
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and blogs<br>
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<a href="http://www.gpo.ca/blogs/leaders" target="_blank">http://www.gpo.ca/blogs/leaders</a><br>
<a href="http://www.gpo.ca/node/1825" target="_blank">http://www.gpo.ca/node/1825</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.gpo.ca/blogs/campaign" target="_blank">http://www.gpo.ca/blogs/campaign</a></font></pre><br>
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