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Let’s begin taking RedState to the next level

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  December 2nd, 2008 at 11:08 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

We have a lot of readers from Georgia. I know. I track all the IP addresses. I don’t know who all they are, but I know we have a lot.

And I know we have a number of regular commenters/diarists here, not just readers.

We’ve been saying we want to take RedState to the next level. So let’s start. Let’s make Georgia the pilot project. It’s easy for me since I live here.

If you want to get involved as part of the RedState Army of Activists in Georgia, go here and sign up.

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  • kudzu630

    I understand the need to be connected but what and where do we begin? Also, how? I’m anxious to see the idea behind the mission statement (again my militaryspeak) and eventually the plan but any kind of activity that gets out message out to our politicians I support.

  • Freedomist

    How can us non-Georgians get involved, Erick? I am from PA and would love to see R/S grow and become more interconnected (Neil knows some of my zany ideas :) )

    Bill Collier

  • BlueFalcon

    We lost a ton of states this year that are in far more dire straits (as far as conservative “evangelism” is concerned) than Georgia. If anything, I think Georgians ought to be pitching-in for out-of-state efforts.

  • St_Louis_Conservative

    DailyKos, Democrat Underground, & others frequently have several hundred comments on their posts.

    Same with Free Republic, HotAir, and Michelle Malkin on our side.

    I’m not knocking RedState, I’ve been a reader here for close to two years now, but how is it that places like Kos & Crooks & Liars have hundreds and hundreds of comments on every single post?

  • NightTwister

    But I’m glad to see the State blogs starting to move to the next level.

    And yeah, you’re there, so I guess it makes sense to start there.

  • NightTwister

    In my experience, there isn’t a one-to-one correlation between comments and traffic. Some of the most read diaries don’t get a lot of comments.

  • Neil_Stevens

    Ever since my DC trip actually, I’d been planning to ask Erick to do more Georgia here, to serve as a model for others.

    He beat me to it.

    My hope would be that as Erick’s work as a ? wait for it ? community organizer will be replicated when successful, and learned from when not.

  • Neil_Stevens

    We have fewer comments and always will because we take the problems out back and shoot them.

    We also have a greater lurker ratio than a Daily Kos I suspect. You won’t see Rush commenting, but he reads. Same with our Capitol Hill readers.

  • 10ksnooker

    Needs to link up with FreeRepublic.

  • Herodotus

    See here: http://www.eagleinteractive.com/card_redstate.htm

  • leppard

    had a picture of the state we lived in or descriptive subtitle..

  • Neil_Stevens

    Serious question.

  • mbauer

    Interactive solutions like this would greatly benefit Erick’s goal. I love being able to identify other users from one of the states I call home (AR, VA, and maybe TN) and commenting on state politics directly with them.

    Just brainstorming with you here-

    We could rate our state’s politicians and keep it in our user profile, to help identify up and coming stars. The party of federalism has to find a way to bring each state’s voices back to the table.

  • Jaded

    actually it is my tattoo when I finally get it done :-)

  • leppard

    than the current blank profile box! Im all for the changes you suggested!

    I belong to another conservative site that makes you fill out a questionaire to introduce yourself to the group..you then get a subtitle based on your answers. Mine of course is pro-life republican from DFW..But its interesting to see the variations in titles when people comment on issues.

  • PhxG

    Those 300+ threads have almost no content beyond rants, vulgarity and what could be best described as an Online Personality Disorder. They can keep them.

  • Jaded

    It’s enough to track them when we get beyond the 100 mark….I like to follow the story then the thread to see what people say and pick it up from there…LET US NOT BECOME THAT WHICH I PERSONALLY LOATHE :-)

  • 1979jcb

    I like the idea, and RedState (and other such forums) are just the place to coordinate it.

    I live in San Antonio, TX; I would love to be able to set up a meeting with like-minded individuals so we can action-plan and vent frustrations and air ideas. We need to start coordinating on a local level as the Left has done so effectively.

    Alinsky tactics worked for them, and the Left has created the battlefield on which we now struggle; we cannot hope to change the battlefield–we must adapt our tactics.

    Local organization is the best way to start this.

    I say: If you are in the San Antonio area, let’s plan to meet sometime, somewhere!

  • St_Louis_Conservative

    How does that compare with Kos, OpenLeft, DU, Free Republic, HuffPo, HotAir, etc etc

  • firstchevalier

    to keep track of the oposition, and I stop reading a thread as soon as the name calling starts.

    Seriously, start tracking how deep you can get on any one thread at any liberal sight before it degenerates into useless name calling that has no higher purpose than a cathartic exercise for the respondents. Redstate has a much higher comment to value ratio, imo.

  • firstchevalier

    I signed up. I’m not making any promises about quality or quantity of what I can produce, but I’m willing to at the very least hear what the plan is.

    If my family and work life can support what you need of me then you are welcome to it. I cannot in good conscience blog the talk and not walk the walk so to speak. It’s time to stop typing complaints and start sweating to improve our situation. I’m in.