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Every day millions of people share their ideas on every
topic imaginable. You can join the blogosphere and help
Gavin Newsom build a community to make the best ideas
for improving San Francisco become a reality. Here's
how:
• Link Your Blog to Our Site
• Posting Your Ideas on Blogs
• Start Your Own Blog Kit
• How Blogging Will Help Our Campaign
Link Your Blog to Our Site
If you are a blogger and interested in linking your
blog to the campaign website, please send us an email.
Make sure to put Link Your Blog
to Our Site in the subject
heading and please include your name, email, IM, and
blog address in the email. We will get back to you shortly
about linking to your site.
Posting Your Ideas on Blogs
You can help Gavin by blogging about our campaign to
make San Francisco a model for the world. Blogging is
very easy and you definitely don't need to be a technology
person to do it.
There are hundreds of great
sites out there to choose from — but this list of
blogs is a great place
to start. It also helps to post on local blogs that are
not specifically about the politics but cover our local
communities.
We suggest picking one or two blogs and starting a diary
or posting regularly — once a day, couple times a week
- whenever the spirit moves you. A great way to build
up a following is to email your friends with new posts.
Please also email the campaign with new posts — you
never know - you might find yourself on our homepage!!
Start Your Own Blog Kit
If you like to write, comment, network and want to help
Gavin Newsom, start a Gavin Newsom for Mayor Blog!
A blog is essentially a web-based diary. You can post
your thoughts and ideas and recent news items or connect
to other interesting websites. In the last few years,
literally millions of people have started blogs on just
about every topic imaginable.
Starting a blog is very easy. You definitely do not
need to be a technology person to do it. There are lots
of websites that will have your blog up and running in
less than 15 minutes — take a look at www.typepad.com or www.blogstream.com.
It's as easy as booking a plane ticket online. And after
you start your blog — click on the Got a Blog? link on
our homepage to let us know about it.
How Blogging Will Help Our Campaign
Blogging helps the campaign in three simple ways:
1) Big national blogs like Daily
Kos,
AmericaBlog and
MyDD look
to local blogs for leadership — especially in local
races. Paul Hackett's success online was started by
a local Ohio blogger! To build netroots support around
the country, Gavin needs advocates online.
2) More
links = better search rankings. Linking to our
website from your blog will improve our ranking from
search engines (e.g., appear higher up on the search
page on sites like Google). The higher up you are, the
more people click on the link and visit our site!
3) More
mentions = better search rankings. The more
Gavin's campaign is written about online, the better
ranking the campaign site will get from search engines.
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