Getting Local: The Next Frontier for Online Politics?
Is local politics the next place where online activism will make a serious mark? The New Politics Institute’s recent presentation talked about the importance of working with political bloggers who write about local issues, as did this year’s South By Southwest panel on political blogging.
Now, GetActive’s come out with a module that allows organizations to connect members with local officials — they’ve built a system that matches constituents with municipal and county officials by zip code (for counties with more than 25,000 residents), and their first customer is the National Association of Realtors. We can assume that other providers either have or will follow suit.
But can we avoid the problems that have crippled email as a tool for reaching Congress and led to the infamous logic puzzle? (more…)
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