{"id":7782,"date":"2010-01-12T08:45:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T13:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7782"},"modified":"2010-01-12T08:45:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T13:45:15","slug":"around-the-mob-carver-county-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7782","title":{"rendered":"Around The MOB: Carver County GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the guys on the Northern Alliance Radio Network originally started the MOB, we had a few clear missions<\/p>\n

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  1. Build a social organization!:\u00a0 Social media are the most fun when they’re social.\u00a0 And for a mostly-solitary hobby like blogging, getting out and meeting people could be a huge boost.<\/li>\n
  2. Give the mass of smaller Twin Cities blogs an instant audience.\u00a0 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.<\/li>\n
  3. Give activists an outlet.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That last has been interesting, and in some ways controversial.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 And the MOB (and the overtly partisan spin-off True North)<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

    Carver County GOP<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

    GOP activists – check them out.\u00a0 And think to yourselves; could my <\/em>BPOU use something like this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When the guys on the Northern Alliance Radio Network originally started the MOB, we had a few clear missions Build a social organization!:\u00a0 Social media are the most fun when they’re social.\u00a0 And for a mostly-solitary hobby like blogging, getting out and meeting people could be a huge boost. Give the mass of smaller Twin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7798,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions\/7798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}