Hey Gatherers -
As the summer winds down and campaign season really begins to ramp up everyone here at the Edwards campaign is focusing more and more each day on connecting with voters and building a movement for change.
As part of our on-going effort to directly connect with voters we've created an official John Edwards group on Gather. As many of you know, the campaign has been posting updates and policy statements on Gather since last fall but we didn't have an official group...until now: http://Edwards08.Gather.com/groupInvite.jsp
One of the reasons we waited to create a group is because there were already a number of very active and well run supporter-created Edwards groups on Gather. These groups have been and will continue to be an essential part of our online outreach strategy so I encourage you to check them out and connect with the Gathereres who keep these groups running:
http://johnedwards08.gather.com/ created by Kurt Michael Friese
http://edwards2008.gather.com/ created by AstroGirl S.
http://donshzz.gather.com/ created by Don (Man I miss Bill) S.
The official John Edwards group on Gather will work in conjunction with these supporter-created Edwards groups to provide Gatherers with campaign updates, news and responses and articles directly from John and campaign headquarters. As we begin this group please feel free to let us know what kinds of articles, videos, activities you would like to see and feel free to contact me directly with any questions, concerns or suggestions at arubin@johnedwards.com
Thanks for keeping the conversatio on the issues that matter most to us alive and well.
Amy Rubin
Director of New Media
John Edwards for President
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I'll join the new group. You may want to take a look at the article I just published about the dad/candidates with emphasis on JE.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977100433
The Edwards Campaign website still says:
"Gather is centralized, while the ideal Media 2.0 is decentralized — but to their credit, Gather is trying to make the network a player in Presidential Politics — John Edwards is there. "
A little back-handed, don'tcha think? What's wrong with Gather's system? At least it's not rampant with adolescent nonsense like myspace is.
Anyway, y'all should change that - maybe promote gather a little if you want folks at gather to promote your guy.
On the other hand, thanks for the good work you've done and continue to do here AT Gather.
While I have not decided on a candidate you can bet Senator Edwards is one of the two best Democrats running for office.
Thank you for starting the John Edwards for President on Gather! I've been a supporter for a long time and wrote to hime before he annonced asking him to run. He is by far the best candidate.
Suzanne Shaw,