Thanks
Jeremy for a great initial list! Double-click here to edit this section.
- - Team Huckabee’s “Tell Us Why You Like Mike”
YouTube series is a great idea. YouTube, obviously, has endless
possibilities. Vincent is doing a great job and judging by the
progress, working hard on the Explorehuckabee.com Blog. If you have the means, Upload videos telling the world (in any way you choose - within reason) why you like Mike to YouTube, and tag them as Huckabee, or e-mail them to vincent.harris@explorehuckabee.com.
- - Team Huckabee’s Barber Pole idea for fundraising, capitalizing on
the Edwards joke, was brilliant. Speaking of Fundraising and good
ideas…when you Contribute to the Huckabee Campaign, make sure you head over to Ktracy.com and Sloane Reality to let them know. They are both matching contributions 100% right now. Also, Lisa from Massachusetts for Huckabee is offering up control of her blog for a day if you make a contribution and have it matched the 200% from Kevin and Sloane.
- - Fred (or Friends of Fred - because I’m pretty sure he is resting), on imwithfred.com, asks his supporters to call Talk Radio. They
even provide you with a form to select your state and media market in
order to get a list of talk radio stations (and their numbers) that
serve your area.
- - Again from imwithfred.com, the Fred campaign wants his supporters to get the word out by writing “Letters to the Editor.”
Understanding that most people are lazy and/or have A.D.D., the Fred
Team supplies the Fredheads with a simple three-step form where you
select the newspapers, provide your contact information, compose a
brief letter and click submit. I assume, at this point, it
automatically sends the letter to each of the papers you selected.
Very Nice. Well done.
- - I have also noticed that on each candidate’s site, there are small links to their relative social networking pages…such as,
and 
.
Twitter, btw, has great potential in a presidential campaign
application. I first came across twitter in a social application and
it seemed a tad trite, in a stalker kind of way. But, in a campaign,
it provides the candidate with an effective method to keep his
supporters feeling connected. If you want to see it in action, check
out John Edwards’ Twitter Site or Obama or 
Chris Dodd. - - The “Hillary for President” campaign asks her Hillbots to become “HillRaisers.”
They create an account and get a raiser code. Then, they set
a personal fundraising goal and try to reach it. Using
hillaryclinton.com/contribute/[yourcode], they track their progress.
Team Hillary also implements the same method to encourage and track recruiting activity.
- - A few of the candidates have sections of their websites devoted
to States and/or Communities. That seems like it should be a given.
- - Bill Richardson has an excellent “Action Center.” Check it out…plethora of ideas there.
- - Chris Dodd uses a simple calendar in an effective way to keep track of events for the Dodd Squad. Sounds simple…but, not every campaign does it.
- - Then there is Ron Paul. The man could start a grassroots
campaign in the Himalayas and 45,000 people would trek there the next
day. Nevertheless, I like how he uses Meetup. I also like that he has download items to print and links to Cafepress Items.
- - Pardon me, but I need to yell this…A CAMPAIGN STORE!!! Power it by Cafepress,
if need be, but a campaign store is pretty important. Maybe, even
solicit campaign supporters to submit their designs for t-shirts, mugs,
bumper stickers, etc.
- - UPDATE: John Edwards’ OneCorps “Online Community for Offline Action” is genius. (Thanks Hawt)
- - UPDATE: GOP Team Leaders also have a very good “Action Center.” (Thanks, Kevin)
- - UPDATE: Kathy from Michigan Redneck has created a message board. Check it out here.
- - UPDATE: Elephantbiz.com recently gave Explorehuckabee.com a good
grade, A-. While it is an overall positive review, they do seem
to agree with us (those of you in the comments) about the Social
Networking and Action segments, or lack thereof.
“What’s missing from Huckabee’s campaign website is
links to official Huckabee pages on MySpace, YouTube and Facebook.
Also, Huckabee should make it easy for bloggers to add a “Help
Huckabee” button or donations box to their web sites. It wouldn’t cost
much and might help him bring in some desperately needed cash. In
terms of effective and broad use of social media, I’d give the overall
effort a grade of A-.”
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