Cutting-Edge Web 2.0 Tools Allow Citizen Activists to Organize Their Social
Networks in Critical Election Year
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Starting today, MoveOn.org
Political Action will roll out a new "powered by MoveOn" online toolset that
uses web 2.0 technology to engage citizens, build Progressive communities, and
increase involvement in legislative and electoral campaigns. All of the tools
put individuals in the driver's seat in activating their own social networks.
VotePoke (www.votepoke.org) was developed in collaboration with Catalist, a
premier provider of voter file data to Progressive organizations. The
first-of-its-kind webpage allows voters nationwide to look up their voter
registration status online and get registered quickly and easily. They can
also invite their friends and family to view their status and quickly and
easily resister as well through Rock the Vote. VotePoke will launch this week
in many of the February 5th primary states, where MoveOn has approximately 1.7
million members.
League of Young Voters/MoveOn Youth Primary on FaceBook
(http://apps.facebook.com/theleague/) allows Facebook users to vote for the
candidate of their choice and declare publicly the issues that are driving
them to the polls this year. Over 10,000 young folks have voted so far,
primary voters can invite their Facebook networks to vote with a few
keystrokes. Results will be tallied nationally, locally and by school. The
application was launched on January 3rd and voting will continue through
February 5th.
Call Congress Blog Widget will allow any blog-reader or web-surfer to quickly
get in touch with his or her elected officials. After readers enter their
phone number and ZIP code, the system will automatically patch them through to
the correct Representative or Senator. The widget will be launched in the next
few weeks.
ActivList will facilitate Progressive community-building nationwide by
providing a decentralized local Progressive event calendar. Major Progressive
sites will feature the calendar application, and people can type in their ZIP
codes to find what's happening in their communities. ActivList will launch
later this month.
SignOn will allow citizens to use the successful MoveOn technology to launch
their own online petitions about local issues, contact Congress and build
networks of their own. SignOn will launch in the next several months.
"MoveOn's new tools give our members exactly what they need to get their
friends and colleagues involved in the upcoming political battles," said Eli
Pariser, Executive Director of MoveOn. "More involvement from the local to the
national levels means that real people will have a real voice in shaping the
new direction of our country."
SOURCE MoveOn.org
Doug Gordon, +1-202-822-5200 x237, +1-202-494-5141 (cell), for MoveOn.org
