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Interested in sharing political media content with millions of people across America? If you want to help spread the conservative message through social media, then this is the group for you! You can also join us on Facebook.

Website: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55423899625
Members: 48
Latest Activity: Oct 13

Rebuild the Party's Social News Guide

What is Social News?

Social News refers to websites where users submit and vote on stories. The most popular content is then displayed to users. At first, we will only be focusing on Digg.com which is the largest Social News website. By recent estimates, 13 million Americans visit Digg every month. Once things start moving, I will introduce everybody to the rest of the social news sites.

How Digg Works

A vote for a story is called a "digg" and a vote against a story is called a "bury." Between 15 and 20 thousand stories are submitted daily, but only the most "dugg" stories will make it to the site’s front page. It typically takes between 75 and 150 diggs for an article to get promoted to the Digg front page.

Stories that have made the front page can be accessed via the Popular tab, while stories that have not yet made the front page are accessible via the Upcoming tab (see screenshot below). Digg divides its content into a variety of categories, allowing users to filter content so they only see articles on topics that they want to read.

A story that makes it to the front page will receive tens of thousands of visitors.

Registered users can make profiles, add friends and send messages (called "shouts") to alert friends about stories on the site.

How can Digg help us Rebuild the Party?

Using this group as an organizational tool, we can coordinate our efforts to send traffic to stories that paint the Republican Party in a positive light. By voting and commenting on stories, we can reach out and share the logic behind our political ideology with new demographics.

How Can You Help?

1. Create a Digg account. Only registered users can "digg", comment or "bury" stories.

2. Start digging and commenting on stories. We will alert you when we find great articles to digg but we encourage you to explore and interact with the site on your own.

3. Please "digg" the articles related to politics and the Republican Party that you are already reading (most news websites already have "digg" or "share" buttons built into each article). If you press the "digg" button and the article has not yet been submitted to the site, please submit it.

4. If you find or submit a great article, post it to the discussion forum in this group. We can't "digg" and share good articles we don't know about, so tell us! Also, to add like-minded friends on "Digg," friend the people who are digging the same stories as you. That way if you decide to "shout" a story to your friends, they are more likely to "digg" it.

5. Recruit others to help in our efforts. The more active Republicans we have digging stories, the better. More "diggs" means more traffic because articles spend a longer time on the front page.

6. Feel free to "digg" and comment on other non-political articles you find interesting as Digg likes to reward users with a varied site history. Besides, there is a lot of interesting stuff that you wouldn't find on a mainstream news outlet. Enjoy it.

Looking for more information about Digg?
This article is a great resource.

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Comment by Steve Lee on April 29, 2009 at 10:33am: Army Girl, Lori, Peach and Paula I have been writing on a another website that you might find interesting, smartgirlpolitics Click Underlined Link: smartgirlpolitics Growing Social Networks

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Comment by Robert William Butler on April 29, 2009 at 4:05am: Too sad is the fact that most of our elected officials vote ideological agenda, special interests and political expediency, not convictions or principles. Why? Because they don't seem to have any character. It's all a game of numbers and collective relevance to them. Albert Einstein once said..."Conscience...never go against, even if the state demands it." One must first possess a conscience for this principle to function. Need I say more?

Comment by J.W. Foxx on April 29, 2009 at 12:01am: I doubt Specter will change his voting habits. He switched purely for self-preservation in the 2010 election, his ideological positions won't change. This is not a condemnation of the Republican Party or endorsement of the Democratic Party. For all practical purposes, nothing has changed today,.

Comment by Robert William Butler on April 28, 2009 at 5:43pm: If he meant what he said about helping to balance the two party system, we can and should expect a few votes for the conservative side on issues. He is right about making one less seat on the Republican side of the isle (40 / 60), but if he votes with the left more than at other times, who cares? My hope and prayer is that he loses the elections from now on. Too bad, Obama! You lose either way.

Comment by J.W. Foxx on April 28, 2009 at 4:57pm: Specter is gone. Really who didn't see that coming??? He has voted with democrats half the time anyway and voted for the Stimulus Package - a big test of conservative principles - that he failed.

Comment by Paula on April 16, 2009 at 12:49pm: We need to start building a network on Digg. Please add me as a friend there. My name is itsonlywords.

Comment by Paula on April 14, 2009 at 2:53pm: Please digg and comment on this article.

Comment by Peach on April 13, 2009 at 1:14pm: Wow, am excited to discover this group. I grew up in the ''Isn't the xerox great?" generation.

Comment by Catherine Fay on April 13, 2009 at 10:52am: I have been digging for months and knew it put the article higher on the list. Will do more than that now. What fresh young faces. I am finding more 20 somethings, that are conservative rather than liberal. Nice to know that there is hope.