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Vilsack
Unveils New Interactive Website
Will Encourage Online Dialogue on Iraq War, Energy
Security & Other Issues
DES MOINES, IA -- Today, at 4:00PM CST, the Tom
Vilsack for President Campaign unveiled a
re-designed website at www.TomVilsack08.com. The new
interactive website features tools allowing Vilsack
supporters and other members of the online community
to participate in two-way conversations with Vilsack
and the campaign regarding his plans to defund the
war in Iraq, end America's dependence on foreign oil
and create change in America.
"Our campaign is committed to engaging voters across
America show share our vision for ending our
dependence on foreign oil and getting our troops out
of harm's way in Iraq immediately," said Vilsack.
"We'll use our website and cutting edge technology
to minimize the barriers of time and space to give
our supporters unprecedented access to our
campaign."
The website will empower the millions of Americans
opposed to the Iraq war by providing a platform of
tools to make their voices heard. The first dialogue
on the website will encourage Americans to join a
discussion of the bold energy-security goals Vilsack
articulated in a major policy address yesterday to
the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California.
Vilsack said: "We aren't just looking for support.
We're looking for active participation. Our website
is now equipped with the technology to give
Americans the opportunity to share their ideas about
how we achieve the ambitious energy security goals
I've laid out."
The new website, www.TomVilsack08.com, includes
improved vehicles for interacting with the campaign
and other supporters:
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A campaign blog
with postings from Tom and Christie Vilsack,
campaign staff and other supporters.
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Tools to allow
supporters to build the Vilsack campaign in
their local communities by hosting 'Main Street
Meetings.'
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State-specific
hubs, acting as virtual field offices, for
online organizing in the early primary states.
The new-look for www.TomVilsack08.com continues the
Vilsack campaign's record of innovating on the
Internet. Vilsack was the first presidential
candidate to engage supporters through social
networking, the first to feature a campaign video
blog and the first presidential candidate ever to
announce on the Internet, a tactic that has been
followed by many other Democratic candidates for
President.
Tom Vilsack was the first Democratic candidate for
President to announce his candidacy, the first to
repudiate the Bush-McCain Doctrine of increasing
troop levels in Iraq, and the first to demand that
Congress stop funding the war in Iraq. Tom Vilsack
is a Washington outsider with a proven track record
of expanding access to healthcare and early
education, as well as making Iowa a national leader
in renewable fuel production.
Welcome to
Our New Website
Since Tom’s announcement – the first done via video
blog of any candidate – we’ve been working hard to
make the internet a key piece of the campaign
strategy.
We don’t have the big dollars for advertising, list
rentals or even to have a videographer with Tom at
every stop. In fact, there are many times that our
guy is all alone, driving to events himself.
So, yeah, we’re a different kind of campaign. An
underdog, an outsider, call it what you will.
But a few months ago we launched a place-holder site
just to get the ball rolling, to start the v-blog,
to lay the groundwork on the social networking sites
and begin regular communications with Tom’s earliest
supporters. And it’s working!
With today’s “relaunch” we’re responding to the
requests and suggestions of so many of you who have
discovered Tom Vilsack and decided that he was your
guy for 2008. The issue pages, for example, are not
fluff – they contain real ideas, with lots more to
come, based on real executive experience.
The video and press archives are great to send to
your friends and family to introduce them to our
campaign.
There’s a lot more to come, too. As state offices
get set up and more and more of you sign up to
volunteer, we’ll be rolling out a full set of event
tools, groups tools and more to help you build
support for Tom in your hometown.
So, help us out today. Let us know you approve.
Invite a few (or a few hundred) of your friends to,
as others say it, “join the conversation”. Be sure
to come back soon as you’ll see a lot of changes in
just the first few days. Oh yeah, chipping in a few
dollars would help too.
It’s going to be a fun year ahead and I am looking
forward it.
posted by: Kevin Thurman on Wednesday, February 14
Source: Tom
Vilsack for President |
