Election 2006 – Have Your Say

I’ve created a page for election stuff where I’ll be posting links to all the blog entries that relate to the upcoming election, as well as additional resources from elsewhere.

If you write any letters, articles or posts on other sites that you think deserve front-page status, you can email them to me I’ll post them up (with full credit of course). Otherwise, paste them in as comments to the blog entry that relates to them, or put them in the comments to the page I just linked to. Also, feel free to send me or post any links to additional resources and I will link to them from that page.

I think letters to candidates and to the editors of major publications are definitely worthwhile. There’s something else that I think would have impact, and is a lot of fun: posting on the websites and blogs of people and organizations who support the people we don’t want elected. Canadian voters are shopping right now in more ways than one, and the online commerce in ideas is growing even faster than the one for Christmas gifts. Few things are so entertaining as co-opting the web space of your opponents to post your own views.

Just like here, many other blogs allow you to supply a link when you post your comments. You can use the link to the page I’ve created, which is http://socialtech.ca/ade/index.php/election-2006/ and anyone who clicks on your name after posting will be brought to that page. Hopefully, they’ll read something that just might change their minds. Just remember that if you intend to persuade, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, “A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.”