When the guys on the Northern Alliance Radio Network originally started the MOB, we had a few clear missions

1. Build a social organization!:  Social media are the most fun when they’re social.  And for a mostly-solitary hobby like blogging, getting out and meeting people could be a huge boost.
2. Give the mass of smaller Twin Cities blogs an instant audience.  When blogs like Fraters, Powerline and I got started in 2002, it was hard to find any other bloggers in your area; I blogged for probably ten months before I encountered the guys from Fraters.
3. Give activists an outlet.

That last has been interesting, and in some ways controversial.  We wanted to give smaller political groups – district and BPOU committees, smaller interest groups – a way to get around the various party bureaucracies to get the word out, whatever “the word” is to them.  And the MOB (and the overtly partisan spin-off True North) drew quite a few of these smaller bodies; their motivations are different than many of us amateur pundits, but the goal is still the same; communicate with people, change things.

Carver County GOP has been one of those blogs for almost four years now. They’ve been an active, useful blog – part party information, part polemics, and all exactly what we had in mind when we got the MOB going.

GOP activists – check them out.  And think to yourselves; could my BPOU use something like this?

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