Charlie's Life

Check out the original post on the College Republican National Committee blog here.

If you haven’t sent in your idea yet, and you want to see the RNC do something differently or something new, PLEASE send it in now!

I’ve sent in a few, but my favorite so far is this one. To be honest, there might be something that technically prevents this from being done, but not to my knowledge. At the very least, it should spur some thought on how better to open up Voter Vault.

“Assuming you still can’t export your friend list (otherwise we could just export friend lists into Voter Vault and set up peer-to-peer phone banks), the RNC could develop a facebook App that connects Voter Vault with Facebook Connect and allows users to send a “voter survey” to their contact list that would capture their contact info as well as their responses to the voter ID survey and send the info to Voter Vault.

This would allow the RNC to contact a huge amount of people in very little time, collect massive amounts of information from the users who have signed up for the App (talk about micro-targeting!), organically connect supporters with potential supporters, and begin infusing Voter Vault with the raw power of social mobilization.

The App could later provide people with tools to send their friends videos based on their survey results, give them updates on specific issues or candidates they might identify with, update their contact info automatically into Voter Vault if they move or change email addresses, and contact them concerning personal issues (“Congrats on getting married! Did you know the GOP wants to lower taxes on married couples?”). I’m sure much more as well.”