2008 new media tactics? National Presidential Caucus?

[lhfang]

There has been a lot of attention towards ways of leveraging our numbers on the web to impact (1) the political media and (2) offline organizing.

I think its also fair to say that we were successful in almost a radical way in 2006. In the history of modern political communication, we reversed a lot of top-to-bottom media trends. We also helped deliver enough ground support to defeat Joe Lieberman in the primary and cause huge upsets in CA-11 and NH-01.


I think we must look ahead to 2008 not to only repeat the tactics and enthusiasm we had in 2006. We should be innovating to help further our activism with all the available resources. Youtube is still something that should be utilized. But also digg.com, Facebook...

Are there any websites people think the netroots should be looking towards as a future trend we should capitalize on? Any social networking, mobile communications, or other viral web content that is up and coming?

I've heard about the National Presidential Caucus. I think it has pretty good potential to steer some of the dialogue and organizing. I think you use it to create primaries and host straw polls on issues you pick.

I've created a test caucus on the issue of voting integrity:

http://www.nationalcaucus.com/node/61