WP: (Howard) Dean Camp's Tactics Applied to Colorado

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Dean Camp's Tactics Applied to Colorado
Web Site Aims to Organize Liberal Activists

By Brian Faler
Special to The Washington Post
Sunday, October 9, 2005; Page A05

A small advocacy group in Colorado is betting that it can take one state-of-the-art Web site, add half a million dollars or so and end up with a potent tool that will enable it to organize the state's entire community of liberal activists.

ProgressNow, formed two years ago, is borrowing some of the online tactics that helped fuel the 2004 presidential campaign of Howard Dean, now the Democratic National Committee chairman. It has invited activists from across the state to use its Web site free to push most any issue they like.

The goal is to create a go-to site for Colorado activists -- a sort of online hub for everyone from environmentalists to abortion rights advocates to those concerned about the direction of their school boards. The group hopes liberals will use the site -- ProgressNowAction.org -- to find each other, organize and meet people working on other issues. In the process, it hopes to assemble a statewide network of activists and, ultimately, give Democrats a new and easily replicated model for local political organizing.

"We're taking what we learned from the Dean campaign and are applying it to a state," said Bobby Clark, who worked on Dean's Internet team before becoming deputy director of ProgressNow. "If we do our job right, when election time comes around, we will have a much more engaged electorate."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/08/AR2005100801129.html

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1. Good for them! And Dean is

taking some things he's learned and "overhauling" the Democractic Party.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1837223