JonPincus

Ideas for Change, ads (including “Better watch those nuns — and their friends too!”), strategy, Open for Questions, and 2009 communications. A lot going on!

There’s a proposal for a 2009 Strategy and a Strategy Backgrounder up on the wiki. Read on for a brief summary. Feedback, please!

Interesting perspectives from the LA Times, CQ Politics … and the predictable opinion of the Bush administration DOJ lawyer in yesterday’s hearing in San Francisco. This would be a good time to crank up the online activism …

An update with a little analysis. First-round voting ends December 31, but it’s never too early to start watching the standings!

Thanksgiving’s a great time to reach out to family members who may not have thought about — or gotten involved with — FISA and other civil liberties issues. How are you planning on discussing this?

Change.org’s Ideas for Change in America has announce a partnership with MySpace, as well as groups like the Sunlight Foundation, Netroots Nation, VotoLatino, Campus Progress, and People for the America Way.

Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties is currently #8. Please vote it up if you agree.

What’s going to happen to all that data the Obama campaign collected? And why are they using Bush administration fave ChoicePoint for their vetting, despite ChoicePoint’s horrible data quality? It sure doesn’t give a warm and fuzzy feeling …

Motrin’s “viral” video making fun of babywearing mothers — timed for the start of International Babywearing Week — has, much to their PR firm’s amazement, led to a backlash. Who’d a thunk it? Another example of the power of social networks, in this case Twitter and the Mommyblogger community.

“Observing the incredible organizing skill of the Millennials who have grown up with these technologies it becomes abundantly clear how we were just scratching the surface. My reaction is consistently “wow, that’s kind of how I’d have approached things but they’ve done it much much better than I would have.” It starts with their positive and inclusive mission statement …”

Check out ObamaCTO.org; Micah Sifry’s Never Mind Who; What Should S/he Do? has more.

While you’re there, please check out my proposal, and if you like it vote it up!