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12-10-2011, 09:59 PM
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We would like to introduce Ron Paul Country (http://www.ronpaulcountry.com/launch), the new grassroots tool for
locating and contacting fellow Ron Paul supporters and activists nationwide,
organizing events promoting Ron Paul
increasing turnouts at events promoting Ron Paul.
Our main goal is to bring together all the activists, supporters, and organizers into a single database, which would make it easier to locate and contact Ron Paul supporters nationwide, to suggest events, and to organize events more efficiently. Here are the features we offer to locate and communicate with Ron Paul supporters registered at RonPaulCountry.com:
nationwide map of Ron Paul supporters/activists, with location marker for each registered site user
map-search for site users by State, County, and Zipcode
user-to-user contact via private messages
suggest an event to site administrators, who send out emails to site users located near the proposed event
other features to be added
To register with RonPaulCountry.com, every user is required to submit:
working email (activation link is sent there)
City
County
State
Zip
Aside from those organizational features, the site includes
early-state info (election data from 2008, donation data from FEC for Q2 and Q3 2011, and Campaign Headquarters info)
New Hampshire Events feeds
Ron Paul news feeds
Ron Paul Twitter feeds
RealClearPolitics poll feeds for Iowa and New Hampshire
Tea Party '11 Moneybomb banner and SuperVoter Bomb banner
site statistics (top user registrations by state, users registered over time)
Public promotion for RonPaulCountry.com has already begun and has been generously funded by the Ron Paul grassroots - members of Ron Paul Forums. In Iowa, we have launched print and online ads which are currently running at the Iowa State University, The University of Iowa in Iowa City, and the University of Northern Iowa:
The Daily Iowan (U of Iowa)
http://i.imgur.com/aIpjP.jpg
The Iowa State Daily (format 1):
http://i.imgur.com/6SCaQ.jpg
The Iowa State Daily (format 2):
http://i.imgur.com/mJH0J.jpg
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What we need now is support from the grassroots supporters, activists, and leaders on Ron Paul Forums, and, of course, from Ron Paul Forums as well. This isn't a competition - it is a coalition, and we are worried about the current state of grassroots organization in the early states, so we have invested our time and skills to come up with an alternative to help streamline things within the grassroots community from the organizational point of view.
Just the other day, we had a Ron Paul supporter contact RonPaulCountry.com from New Hampshire asking for some Ron Paul supplies, so this request immediately got posted here on Ron Paul Forums, and Shem immediately offered to help take care of that. That's the sort of organization we want to streamline. Having the grassroots organized by location isn't something that has been previously available in quite this way, and we received a lot of very positive feedback from New Jersey Liberty Headquarters, as well as from a LOT of our currently registered users.
We're not sure about the state of Meet-ups in Iowa and New Hampshire (would IDefendThePlatform please stand up? :D), but we would like to get those meet-up leaders on board, get registered, and encourage their meet-up groups to also register at RonPaulCountry, to help bring them out of the shadows and engage them not only locally but County-wide and/or State-wide.
The RonPaulCountry.com Team really needs other Ron Paul supporters' help to promote RonPaulCountry.com as hard as possible in as many places as possible.
So far, our site promotion has been by the word of mouth on Facebook and Twitter, and it has basically just been me trying to get the word out. We need people with Twitter accounts and a long list of followers to tweet about RonPaulCountry.com and encourage users to register. We need people to share our site on Facebook. We need other Ron Paul websites to put our banner up on their websites (and we do the same for theirs).
Site development and improvement is still on-going, and we're absolutely open to feedback for new features or for improving what we have currently.
Last but not least, please go to RonPaulCountry.com (http://www.ronpaulcountry.com/launch) and register. It's easier to attract more supporters when you have a lot in the first place and when the US map doesn't look quite so bare. You may think, "well, I'm already an activist, I know all the supporters in my area, and I'm already fully informed" - by being there, you will help us grow and develop faster. And the faster we grow and develop, the better we can help the grassroots organization in the time that we have left before early-state contests.
Thank you all for your support!
P.S. Our site banner is
http://www.ronpaulcountry.com/sites/all/themes/bluemasters/images/logos/rpcountry.jpg
and the HTML code to include it on a partner website is:
<a href="http://www.ronpaulcountry.com/launch"><img src="http://www.ronpaulcountry.com/sites/all/themes/bluemasters/images/logos/rpcountry.jpg" alt="Ron Paul Country" style="border-style: none" /></a>
http://i.imgur.com/9oT5V.jpg
____________________________________________
We would like to introduce Ron Paul Country (http://www.ronpaulcountry.com/launch), the new grassroots tool for
locating and contacting fellow Ron Paul supporters and activists nationwide,
organizing events promoting Ron Paul
increasing turnouts at events promoting Ron Paul.
Our main goal is to bring together all the activists, supporters, and organizers into a single database, which would make it easier to locate and contact Ron Paul supporters nationwide, to suggest events, and to organize events more efficiently. Here are the features we offer to locate and communicate with Ron Paul supporters registered at RonPaulCountry.com:
nationwide map of Ron Paul supporters/activists, with location marker for each registered site user
map-search for site users by State, County, and Zipcode
user-to-user contact via private messages
suggest an event to site administrators, who send out emails to site users located near the proposed event
other features to be added
To register with RonPaulCountry.com, every user is required to submit:
working email (activation link is sent there)
City
County
State
Zip
Aside from those organizational features, the site includes
early-state info (election data from 2008, donation data from FEC for Q2 and Q3 2011, and Campaign Headquarters info)
New Hampshire Events feeds
Ron Paul news feeds
Ron Paul Twitter feeds
RealClearPolitics poll feeds for Iowa and New Hampshire
Tea Party '11 Moneybomb banner and SuperVoter Bomb banner
site statistics (top user registrations by state, users registered over time)
Public promotion for RonPaulCountry.com has already begun and has been generously funded by the Ron Paul grassroots - members of Ron Paul Forums. In Iowa, we have launched print and online ads which are currently running at the Iowa State University, The University of Iowa in Iowa City, and the University of Northern Iowa:
The Daily Iowan (U of Iowa)
http://i.imgur.com/aIpjP.jpg
The Iowa State Daily (format 1):
http://i.imgur.com/6SCaQ.jpg
The Iowa State Daily (format 2):
http://i.imgur.com/mJH0J.jpg
____________________________________________
What we need now is support from the grassroots supporters, activists, and leaders on Ron Paul Forums, and, of course, from Ron Paul Forums as well. This isn't a competition - it is a coalition, and we are worried about the current state of grassroots organization in the early states, so we have invested our time and skills to come up with an alternative to help streamline things within the grassroots community from the organizational point of view.
Just the other day, we had a Ron Paul supporter contact RonPaulCountry.com from New Hampshire asking for some Ron Paul supplies, so this request immediately got posted here on Ron Paul Forums, and Shem immediately offered to help take care of that. That's the sort of organization we want to streamline. Having the grassroots organized by location isn't something that has been previously available in quite this way, and we received a lot of very positive feedback from New Jersey Liberty Headquarters, as well as from a LOT of our currently registered users.
We're not sure about the state of Meet-ups in Iowa and New Hampshire (would IDefendThePlatform please stand up? :D), but we would like to get those meet-up leaders on board, get registered, and encourage their meet-up groups to also register at RonPaulCountry, to help bring them out of the shadows and engage them not only locally but County-wide and/or State-wide.
The RonPaulCountry.com Team really needs other Ron Paul supporters' help to promote RonPaulCountry.com as hard as possible in as many places as possible.
So far, our site promotion has been by the word of mouth on Facebook and Twitter, and it has basically just been me trying to get the word out. We need people with Twitter accounts and a long list of followers to tweet about RonPaulCountry.com and encourage users to register. We need people to share our site on Facebook. We need other Ron Paul websites to put our banner up on their websites (and we do the same for theirs).
Site development and improvement is still on-going, and we're absolutely open to feedback for new features or for improving what we have currently.
Last but not least, please go to RonPaulCountry.com (http://www.ronpaulcountry.com/launch) and register. It's easier to attract more supporters when you have a lot in the first place and when the US map doesn't look quite so bare. You may think, "well, I'm already an activist, I know all the supporters in my area, and I'm already fully informed" - by being there, you will help us grow and develop faster. And the faster we grow and develop, the better we can help the grassroots organization in the time that we have left before early-state contests.
Thank you all for your support!
P.S. Our site banner is
http://www.ronpaulcountry.com/sites/all/themes/bluemasters/images/logos/rpcountry.jpg
and the HTML code to include it on a partner website is:
<a href="http://www.ronpaulcountry.com/launch"><img src="http://www.ronpaulcountry.com/sites/all/themes/bluemasters/images/logos/rpcountry.jpg" alt="Ron Paul Country" style="border-style: none" /></a>