Old Man Winter is making his mark and it’s downright cold out, even in the south! However at Politics4All, we have been keeping warm by working on our next round of services to heat things up on the political social web. Today, we are really excited to announce that we are rolling out strategic services designed to ignite and educate the political community. We are excited about our offering because we believe that the social web is one of the most powerful communication tools available to both candidates and citizens. And, we want to make sure you know how to harness the power as a candidate or a citizen.

We are committed to igniting and educating both candidates and citizens about the social web because we know it’s going to play a critical role in the upcoming mid-term elections and going forward. We also know that getting started can sometimes feel like a daunting task. So, we have assembled a team of experts who are also passionate about the social web and  about helping you get answers to all of your questions.

So stop sitting on the sidelines, and let us help you get in the new media game and be a key player. Check out our New Media Services page and start making the social web work for you today.

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As Social Media week comes to a close we have decided to extend it over at Politics4All. Our community is filled with interesting people writing about fascinating topics important to them. We want to get to know you better and so do others in our community. We would like to feature you on our blog in a get to know you style interview. If you are interested in being featured or possibly guest posting on our blog drop us a line or comment here and we will be in touch.

That’s not all. We want to help you drive traffic to the content you are producing at Politics4All. So if you want us to tweet about your posts make sure you tweet us @politics4all and we’ll kindly respond with a RT.  If you are launching a campaign, as we are more than happy to provide the RT, along with a mention on our weekly campaign round up.

And finally, we are in the process of planning some “tweet ups” to connect with you offline as well. Keep checking back here at the blog as we will announce it here first.

As always we want to hear from you so if you have ideas or suggestions or want to help us plan these events please leave us a comment here.

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We mentioned on Monday that we have been hard at work strategizing to find the best ways to enrich your experience at Politics4All.  So today, we are excited to let you know that we have added a new feature to make things a little more social and extend your community. We want you to be able to share your other social networks with the community at Politics4All, so we have created a place on your profile for you to do just that.

So let’s get started….when you login into Politics4All you will notice under settings we have added a new tab: Social Web.

Click on that tab and you will see you can add one or all of the services listed.  It’s really simple: just enter the link to your profile in the space provided, click add the link, and your profile will be shared.

We would love to hear from you.  Are there other features you would like to see us add to make things more social?  Have we left off any social networks you’d like to share?  This is your community and your input is important, so drop us a line and let us know what you think.

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If you ask any politician or advocacy group what the critical success factor for creating and executing a winning campaign is, they will tell you it’s strategy. And winning strategies cannot be crafted without the right data. Data is the key to creating targeted messages that rouse a constituent to take action. At Politics4All, we know how important data is and we’re excited to announce that you can now purchase USPS Zip+4 Congressional District data for all 50 states from us, http://data.politics4all.com.

Also, at Politics4All we know that you’re busy and that you may not have data experts to extract and match the data to your lists or segment for your strategies. So, we’re ready, willing, and able to do the custom data work for you. Our team is ready to carefully and cost effectively execute your custom requests so that you can stay focused on your strategy.

Our new data services ensure you can:

• Determine where and how to focus your efforts to target the right segments
• Eliminate costly errors by ensuring your direct mail pieces meet USPS requirements and will be delivered
• Plan more strategic campaign appearances to reach constituents on their own turf
• Create and execute successful growth strategies

We provide data in CSV format which can be opened with MS Excel, MS Access, and most other spreadsheet and database applications. Other formats include XML and dBase IV, so just let us know what you need.

To find out more about our custom data services visit http://data.politics4all.com/data-services.html.

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Discussions

In addition to publishing a blog on Politics4All, groups can now enable the new Discussions feature which allows all group members to post items for discussion. While only group members may post topics in a group’s discussions area, any logged-in member of Politics4All can participate in the discussion. An option also exists for group admins to restrict topic posting to admins only.

Discussions settings can be managed on the Account tab in the group’s Settings area:

Group Blogs

With the addition of Discussions to allow for discussions and debates, the group blog is now free to serve as the official communications channel of the group, for posting articles and announcements, or providing more information about the group itself.

Blog Post Import

Another addition is the ability for groups to import blog posts from an external blog into the group’s Politics4All blog. This has been available to individual member accounts since March 2009. This post on Blog Post Import contains instructions for activating and using this feature.

Rich Text in Group Positions
We added a rich text editor to the Group Positions entry form. Groups can now include links to articles, stories, or other online text advocating positions they support.

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