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Jenn Sierra, of FHK, received this by e-mail today from Eric Odom.

Fellow Bloggers,

Did you know there is a movement taking place to take on YearlyKOS?

Indeed, CLC07 is busy planning a large scale conference that has the ability to not only counter the far left gathering of liberal bloggers, but to actually beat them at their own game.

If I told you that we have the capacity to host more than 2,000 right leaning individuals, a line up of special guests that would turn any liberal face red, and the technological ability to equip an army of bloggers to go out and counter the left wing message, would you be interested in joining in on the fun?

Thought so.

Good news! WE’VE GOT IT ALL AND MORE!

This coming October, the 11th through the 13th to be exact, Citizen Outreach and Americans for Tax Reform will be hosting a national gathering of political activists and new media junkies.

I’m the guy in charge of the blogging side of this event, and I’ve put together what I think is a superb line up of speakers and trainers for a full day of blogging goodness. I’m bringing in Evan Coyne Maloney for video blogging, Pamela (aka “atlas”) Oshrey, Erick Erickson of Redstate, to name just a few.

I’ve also been able to talk Lorelle VanFossen, THE Wordpress guru who wrote the award winning book “blogging tips”, into coming and teaching a few classes.

On top of that, we’re bringing in a delicious list of conservative speakers and activists. Speakers like South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, Congressman John Shadegg, Congressman Dean Heller, former house majority leader Dick Armey, former congressman Bob Barr, former congressman J.D. Hayworth, and many, MANY MORE! (see list below)

Have no doubt, we have everything we need to help YOU further your blogging and activism skills. We just need to make sure that you, along with everyone you know, will be present to take advantage of this world class event.

This is it. This is where we prove we can do what they do, and we can do it better. But, we’ve GOT to get the word out!

Further down this newsletter you’ll see an extremely special offer that we’ve crafted for those who can register early. This offer is valid until the end of August, so please let everyone know about it as soon as possible.

I realize that not everyone can make an event such as this. However, you can STILL be a huge help in this by blogging about it, talking about it, and making sure that the entire “conservasphere” is aware of what we’re up to.

I’m personally inviting you to join us, and asking for your help in promoting RIGHTOBERFEST.

Always Blogging,
-Eric Odom
Director :: CLC07

Confirmed Speakers for CLC

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford

Congressman John Shadegg :: Honorary Chair

Rep. Dean Heller of Nevada

Grover G. Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform

Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Freedom Works

Former Congressman Bob Barr of the Libertarian Party

Former Congressman J.D. Hayworth of Citizens United

Former Ambassador Jerry Carmen

Mickey Barnett, Postal Board of Governors

Frank Fahrenkopf of American Gaming Association

Rich Galen of Mullings.com

Adrian “Good Morning, Vietnam!” Cronauer

Author/conservative fundraising guru Richard Viguerie

JoAnn Davidson, Co-Chair of the Republican National Committee

Bill Redpath, National Chairman, Libertarian Party

Shannon Reeves of the RNC’s African-American Leadership Council

Kerri Houston, U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission

Libertarian presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root

Rick Berman of the Center for Union Facts

Israel Teitelbaum of Parents for Free Choice in Education

Author and syndicated columnist Doug Bandow

Author Leslie Sanchez

Mark Montini

John Berthoud, President of the National Taxpayers Union

Steve Moore of Wall Street Journal

John Fund of Wall Street Journal

Steven Greenhut of Orange County Register

Erick Erickson of RedState.org

Documentary filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney

“Blogging Tips” author Lorelle van Fossen

Blogger Pamela “Atlas” Oshrey

“Blue Collar Muse” blogger Ken Marrero

“Adam’s Web” blogger Adam Graham

Jason Wright of PoliticalDerby.com

Chris Simcox of the Minuteman Project

Richard Nadler of America’s Majority

Jennifer Gratz of the American Civil Rights Institute

Amanda Hydro of the Reason Foundation

Scott Cleland of NetCompetition.org

Talk-show host Brian Wilson

Talk-show host Sharon Hughes

Chris Barron of Maximize Liberty

Lorelle VanFossen

Warner Todd Huston

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The goal of the FHK project is to assist politically-conservative bloggers, social-networkers, and citizen journalists to navigate the wild, wild world of Web 2.0 more effectively.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Ft. Hard Knox Project, here are the links:

• Ft. Hard Knox Main Page and Blog
• Ft. Hard Knox Discussion Forum
• Ft. Hard Knox Discussion Forum Chat
• Ft. Hard Knox Wiki

“Wiki…What?” A Wiki is a user-supported and continuously-evolving hypertext encyclopedia. Thus, by definition, a Wiki is always “under construction.” The Ft. Hard Knox Wiki has recently been established within the Wikispaces environment, and it already has some useful articles. Its purpose is to offer an easy way to access tech tips and information, to help conservatives use the Web more effectively.

Using the FHK Forum and Chat Room:

The Ft. Hard Knox forum is hosted on Delphi, so you’ll need to register for a Delphi user ID if you don’t already have one. Registration for the basic functions is free, and that’s all you need to leave messages on the forum or to use the chat room. Prompts will appear when you click on the link. It takes just a minute to sign up!

Updated 7/17/07:

Meet with us on Twitter!

• The Monday night FHK forum chat has been discontinued for now. That’s because it’s too difficult to get everybody in different time zones all over the world to meet at the same time, especially in the summer when so many people are traveling.
• Instead, we’re encouraging fellow conservatives and antijihadist activists to meet with us on Twitter. You can use Twitter both in “real time” for chatting with people who are online at the same time, and as a forum for communicating with people who will be online at other times.
• Click here to view all of our articles about Twitter. We’ll have many more articles about Twitter in the future!
• So how do I get started on Twitter? The easiest way is to ask an established user to introduce you to other Twitterers. Whom to ask? Me, of course! Don’t be shy. Just go to the Twitter site, register an account, click on my profile at 1389, and add me as a friend. I’ll “friend” you back soon afterward. Then send me a message introducing yourself, and I’ll begin introducing you to others. I hope to see you there soon!

Updated 7/2/07:

• We’ll be discussing the Ft. Hard Knox Wiki during tonight’s Forum Chat, so please stop by if you’d like to know more, or if you think you might be interested in working with us!

Updated 6/26/07:

• The main page and blog for the Ft. Hard Knox project have moved to a new address, http://forthardknox.com/
• From the new URL, the Ft. Hard Knox blog can be accessed via a cellphone or PDA browser as well as from a conventional browser.

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Here are some “must read” articles from Republican web strategist David All of the David All Group:

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Over at Pirate’s Cove, William Teach warns us about what happens when we fail to keep up the pressure on our legislators:

Demotivation Monday: Immigration Backers Optimistic

In a nutshell, our elected senators and representatives, not to mention the President, all think that they can ignore us. Teach gives several reasons, but this is the one you need to see right now:

Third, the flood of angry calls, emails, protests, etc, probably did recede, as the people who were making them, particularly Conservatives, do not think that they have to continue to say the same thing again and again: they expect Senators to listen the first time.

Problem is, they didn’t listen, so you gotta crank up the volume.

We’ll make it easy for you. Refer back to our earlier post on this topic, Updated: No, it’s NOT too late to stop the immigration “reform” bill! Use the links there to reach out and touch the senators from your state.

Need some more motivation?

Terrorists Use Mexico to Enter U.S.

Open borders means no barriers against terrorist infiltration. And despite what the “reformers” say, it’s impossible to do an effective background check on an alien in one business day. Once they get in, it’s too late.

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If you are not a liberal when you’re 25 you have no heart, and if you’re not a conservative when you’re 45, you have no brain.

This saying, sometimes credited to Winston Churchill, seems to hold a bit of universal truth, as does the notion that the young people of a generation affect change, while the older folks lend stability. This certainly seems to be the case when it comes to politics online in the 21st century (allowing, of course, for exceptions such as the Young Republicans clubs and the die-hard hippies).

Web 2.0 technology affects our lives online in the form of blogs, online citizen journalism sites (social news), wiki’s, folksonomies, social networking sites, collaborative bookmarking sites, podcasts, aggregators (e.g. RSS), semantic web, collaborative software, and other online scenarios in which users create and share content such as graphics, news, information, technology, creative writing, software, photos, and videos. The original World Wide Web gave us the opportunity to share information by posting what we had to say, and by reading what others had to say. Web 2.0 takes that concept to the next level, by giving users the opportunity to collectively influence what information is available and how the information is distributed.

Today’s twenty-somethings grew up online, and generally seem to be more intuitively tech-savvy and more comfortable with online collaboration than those of us that are older (“older,” in this case meaning anyone over 35!). It is no wonder, then, that there is a noticeable liberal/progressive majority in the politics discussions of any of the social networking sites, which extensively utilize the newest technologies and the art of collaboration.

Largely due to Web 2.0 technology as well as increasingly interactive search engines, there is a growing body of knowledge online that is taking on a life of its own, and it is very influential. Features such as Google PageRank assure that the majority view of any issue is likely to be the first available information on any given topic. Anyone interested in the accuracy of the information that is being disseminated online, needs to have a voice in this increasingly important global discussion.

As conservatives, we need to understand and utilize Web 2.0 technology if we want this body of knowledge to even partially reflect our values, attitudes, respect for history, and vision for the future.

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When I was growing up, if I had a question, I was often encouraged by a parent or teacher to go look for the answer in a dictionary, the encyclopedia, or in the library. Students of all ages have it a lot easier, as they often need to go no further than their closest internet connection, so that they can Google, Yahoo, or Dogpile, or Ask Jeeves for the answers to their questions.

It’s so easy, and convenient. Just type in a few keywords, and voila! Often hundreds of pages of information is instantly available on any given topic. But we don’t sort through all of those pages, do we? I personally almost never go past the first, second, or rarely the third page. So who controls what information populates those first pages?

There is an entire career field dedicated to getting websites promoted to this highly coveted location, called search engine optimization (SEO). There are directories, crawlers, and paid listings. Organizations such as SearchEngineWatch.com offer suggestions online for getting websites closer to that front page, and explaining the hierarchy of search engines.

Google PageRank’s webmaster center explains, “In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages.” High quality sites, as it turns out, are pages that have a lot of traffic, and have lots of other sites linking directly them. See a pattern? The more links you have to your site, the more traffic you will get, hopefully resulting in more links. There is a compounding effect.

Why do conservatives need to understand this? As we discussed in part one, there is a noticeable liberal/progressive majority in the politics discussions of any of the social networking sites, which extensively utilize the newest technologies and the art of collaboration. This is also reflected in the information that is available online through a typical search.

The compounding affect of the search engine algorithms assures that the majority view will continue to be the majority view. Want to test this theory? Try the following searches in any of the search engines, and see if the first page leans right or left: Iraq war, immigration, or gender.

Curious about where your favorite websites rank on Google? Try this free PageRank checker.

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(This Third Installment is by Jenn Sierra and TXPoet, with research assistance from 1389.)

This is the third and final installment of this series explaining why Conservatives need to become more active in the Web 2.0 environment. Part One discussed the generational gap, generally between liberals and conservatives online, while Part Two discussed the how this gap is creating an imbalance of information readily available online through a typical search engine query. We will finish this series by highlighting a few of the major figures supporting Web 2.0 financially, showing how their political leaning is further compounding the imbalance in the information war.

Online social networkers are familiar with Digg.com, the current top social bookmarking site, which has enjoyed unprecedented success in social networking, through its use of bookmarking and syndication, with over 15 million visitors per month.

Where does a site like Digg get funding? Who are its investors? Primary Greylock Partners and the Omidyar Network. The Greylock Partner team is an international investor in primarily technology and medicine, with a special interest in Israel. The Omidyar Network “has invested in a variety of areas, including microfinance, participatory media, open innovation, open source and transparency in government.”
In addition to investing financially, the Omidyar Network is on mission: “Ultimately, we hope that people everywhere will constructively engage with each other to pursue what they care about most, resulting in a global society that is continually advancing social progress.”

If the name Omidyar rings a bell, it’s because Pierre Omidyar is the founder of e-Bay, a philanthropist who is #43 on Forbes’ list of billionaires, and a benefactor of a microfinance fund at Tufts University.Omidyar’s COO is Iqbal Paroo, a Shia Imami Nizari Ismaili, whose interests involve complex healthcare and higher education. He has a long history of involvement with the Aga Khan Foundation (1977-2000), and “From 1977-1980, he served the Aga Khan Foundation as both director of commissioning for the initial phase of the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan,” which has “teaching and research programmes in Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Afghanistan and the United Kingdom,” the university is billed as “an agent of change” and “an important force for pluralism.”

Omidyar and Paroo are champions for the left’s most sacred causes, and now their organization is one of the primary investors in the largest, most influential social-networking site on the web.

Where is the conservative counterpart?

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Fellow blogger Ron Goodwyne introduces this new blog:

The project is called Ft. Hard Knox and you can find it at www.FortHardKnox.com. Of course you’ll find excellent conservative commentary and opinion there but that is not its primary purpose. It is designed to combine blogging, wikkis and message boards in one platform to involve people who are not necessarily web savvy.

Some of the authors on 1389 Mobile Blog will be helping out at Ft. Hard Knox as well.

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