, it occurred to me that a revised and improved draft might form a section for a future diary on the subject of linking online to local activism.
Should you find you have more thoughts than seem appropriate for a comment, you could use whatever you like from this diary for your own.
, and no embedded links), as my experience with posting to Yahoo groups is that regardless of previewing, the formatting does not consistently come out as previewed.
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From: John <J48235@gmail.com>
Subject: help promoting your IMPEACH blogging on Daily Kos
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I can help promote your IMPEACH freeway blogs at Daily Kos. Please see the open thread comment I posted to Daily Kos just before 7 am Pacific time this morning:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
This offer is for IMPEACH freeway blog photos only -- Southern States got lucky this time ;-) as, in combination with the quote from THE Freeway Blogger, this made for a humorous post.
Here's what I can offer your group: post a photo of an IMPEACH freeway blog to your home page, then email me:
(1) city and state where blog is located
To maximize the appeal of the post, I will always use at least the city in the subject line, as I did this morning.
(2) one or two sentences (no more) that you think would make a good message for an open thread post
Those one or two sentences must be sufficiently humorous or interesting that Daily Kos readers will take time to scroll and click to come to your site to see the photo, and in the process, possibly note other evidence of our IMPEACH campaign from the recent messages displayed on your home page, thus generating more people and more success for the campaign.
Until we see the response to this, we will limit submissions to one per month per group (so make it a good one). For any submission I receive I will post the comment I create for your group at least once in an open thread, and will do my best to post it as early in the open thread as possible. I will post these in the order received.
Better yet, why not do this yourself.
With more than 70,000 registered users and more than half a million page views per day, Daily Kos is the most trafficked political site on the Internet. As such, it provides a powerful venue for promoting your local activities, IF YOU FOLLOW THE RULES.
Registration is free (dailykos.com), and gives you posting privileges after a short delay.
Here are some examples illustrating how you can promote your group in the open threads (I also sent you these links early the morning of 31 December in an email entitled: early morning IMPEACH):
1. open thread IMPEACH 1
http://www.dailykos.com/...
2. open thread IMPEACH 2 (bottom only)
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Note that the two above are both OPEN THREAD posts where, unlike anywhere else on the site, within reason anything goes. There are two automatically-generated open threads per day, in the early morning between 6:13 and 6:57 am Pacific time, and in the evening between 6:02 and 6:48 pm Pacific time. There is also a midday open thread, which I've not yet determined the time frame for, and occasionally a late night open thread. The sooner you post to when the open thread appears, the more attention your post will receive.
3. other diary IMPEACH (scroll down)
http://www.dailykos.com/...
The example above is a post to a diary on the subject of impeachment of which, as you can imagine, more are appearing daily (hundreds of diaries are posted per day; you can search for IMPEACH or IMPEACHMENT diaries by using the powerful tagging system just recently put in place). Daily Kos runs on a highly-customized version of SCOOP software.
VERY IMPORTANT: Note the comment in the subthread above was IN CONTEXT. Other than the open threads, YOU ABSOLUTELY CANNOT just go into a diary or front page post and post something out of context. With thousands of comments posted every day, the site would devolve into uselessness WITHIN HOURS if such activity were allowed. There is a rating system that prevents this from happening. Should you attempt it, you will likely be embarrassed, or humiliated, or even banned from the site.
Even my comment above might be borderline inappropriate, because of the large two-line signature file; I suspect this might be more tolerated in an IMPEACH or IMPEACHMENT diary, as it is on-topic, than a similarly prominent signature file that's of a totally different subject than the diary it's posted in.
Should I receive complaints or bad ratings for this, I will simply reduce it to a one-line signature file. In fact, on your member preferences page, you can set up a signature file, with or without a live link, that will automatically generate at the bottom of every comment.
If you would like to use my most current signature file (the same one at the bottom of this morning's open thread post - top link in this email) simply copy and paste this code to the bottom of every comment you post:
[ADDED NOTE: Above came through in the email, of course, as actual code]
As our IMPEACH campaign evolves, that signature file may change. When it does, I will be sure to email you the new one.
One last tip -- you might find it easiest to make a stationery pad of this sig file, and place it in the dock of your Mac OSX system (or wherever you would place something to be most convenient in Windows). That way, every time you want to post a comment, you simply generate a new document with this stationery pad, create the comment above the sig file, then copy and paste into the Daily Kos comment creation form. BE SURE TO FIRST PROOFREAD (on your word processor) your comment, then PREVIEW IT on the Daily Kos comment creation page, before posting. For some reason people often do this AFTER they post, then post corrections, which needlessly clutters up the threads.
Another advantage of creating your comments this way is that it's a simple process to name them by date and subject, in the event you want to re-use all or part.
Again, you can register for free at the Daily Kos home page (dailykos.com). And have FUN promoting local freeway blogging on Daily Kos.