Ft. Hard Knox is working on creating some online workshops for conservative activists and would like your input through a brief survey.

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Patrick Ruffini, Jon Henke and Soren Dayton have joined forces to give to Republicans The Next Right:
This site is the product of literally hundreds of offline conversations with some of the brightest young minds in the conservative movement. It grows out of a recognition that the road back can’t be about a series of disjointed […]

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Politico and Compete.com analyzed how political interested individuals used the Internet for political information:
The study, performed for Politico, is simply a snapshot of online activity; it followed only those readers projected to have visited an official candidate website at least once in September.
But the results reveal interesting online habits among the politically attuned. A significant […]

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Justin Hart at TechRepublican writes about the Lighted Candle Society’s e-mail campaign in response to a recent Oprah episode.  The story shows an effective method of soliciting activist response and building a sense of community.
E-mail is just one of many areas where Republicans still lag behind the Democrats in fully harnessing.  A lot of attention […]

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Bloggers would gain more rights under a bill approved by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday:
Anyone regularly engaged in “journalism,” which would seem to include some bloggers, wouldn’t generally be forced to divulge confidential sources in federal cases under a bill approved Thursday by a U.S. Senate committee.
By a 15-2 vote, the U.S. Senate Judiciary […]

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Now there is a Facebook group where individuals can commit to contributing what they can to help Jeff Evans take the 20th Senate District for Virginia.  You can even add a Facebook widget to help spread the word.
Admittedly, the idea is not original to RedStormPAC.  This morning I discovered At Least $25 (Rudy’s Small Donors)on […]

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Allen Fuller at TechRepublican notes a couple recent Conservative Web 2.0 developments, including RedStormPAC:
Tomorrow, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich will host a series of seminars dubbed Solutions Day. While the actual events will take place in Atlanta, Gingrich and his organization have pulled together an impressive network of companion events across the country. […]

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In 1972, computers and campaigns were just getting acquainted. Fundraising appeals using direct mail lists were considered revolutionary - and helpful to a young Karl Rove working on the Nixon re-election campaign.”Young people have got to reach other young people,” Rove told CBS News at the time, “and that is what we are seeking to […]

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Back in August, Time Magazine wrote about “the extraordinary appeal of Facebook“:
Facebook’s appeal is both obvious and rather subtle. It’s a website, but in a sense, it’s another version of the Internet itself: a Net within the Net, one that’s everything the larger Net is not. Facebook is cleanly designed and has a classy, upmarket […]

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 Julie at the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet blog shares Kevin Betram’s Top Ten Lessons for running a mobile campaign for political candidates:

A dedicated short code is imperative. You don’t want your supporters to accidentally receive messages from companies who might be assigned the same shortcode. Splurge on the extra cost ($1,000 vs. […]

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