Welcome to the new Blog for America!

Written by: Luigi Montanez on Oct 30, 2006 7:28 AM EST

This morning we're excited to launch the new Blog for America. Over the past year, we've been astounded by the growth of DFA-Link, our set of online tools for offline action. It's the biggest political social network around, but we want to make it even bigger.

From now on, DFA-Link groups will be blogging on Blog for America. As we've already seen from this election year, the future of online organizing lies in local blogging. DFA-Link groups all over the country have been actively using their blogs to communicate and report about what they're up to, and it's time to shine the spotlight on them.

Everyone can write a blog post and link it to their DFA-Link group, and the best of those posts will be promoted to the front page by DFA Staff. Blog posts can be given a geographic location and searched by zip code or state, just like groups and events on DFA-Link. Soon, a feature called "Blog Actions" will give readers an automatically generated action they can take, based on the content of the blog post they're currently reading. For example, a post about GOTV will direct them to their local GOTV events on DFA-Link. It works just like Google Ads, but for political activism.

As you can tell, things aren't quite done around here. We wanted to get this out as soon as possible so that you could take advantage of the tools. We appreciate your patience and input as we roll out new technology over the coming days.

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