John Edwards for President-Social Networking

Social Networking

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John Edwards has a presence on all of the following online networks. Most of them will allow you to add images, badges and banners from our downloads page. So feel free to spruce up your profile with some of our stuff by clicking here for downloads.

YouTube is the largest online video site. John Edwards leaked news about his run for president to YouTube. The video was the top viewed of that week. Try the video response features and start a dialogue with John Edwards. John Edwards' channel has the most subscribers of any presidential candidate.

MySpace is the the third most popular site in the U.S. John Edwards offers the chance to be featured on the front page of his MySpace profile by participating in "John's Pals" — a MySpace exclusive project.

Flickr is the biggest photo sharing community. All of John Edwards' photos are in Flickr — some are public, many more are available to contacts, special shots are viewable to friends. Jump on into this network and climb up into John Edwards circle of friends.

With Facebook groups on college campuses in every state in the United States, there is a John Edwards group close to you no matter where you are.

The Democratic Party's own social network, PartyBuilder, is a great way to keep on top of the political events in your community. John Edwards and local party organizing at the grassroots level is featured on the calendar.

43Things is a social network that is built on the principles of tagging, rather than creating explicit interpersonal links (as seen in Orkut). Users create accounts and then list a number of goals or hopes; these goals are analyzed and then connected to other people's goals that are constructed with similar words or ideas. John Edwards' profile will list the volunteering activities of the many www.OneCorps.com chapters.

Ning is an online platform for creating social websites and social networks. Anyone can make a full copy of the social networks that are popular today and customize them for a particular topic or need, catering to specific audiences. We're using Ning to help spread word about OneCorps and our video clips.

Metacafe's system is much better than most other video sharing sites in that the content on the website is first reviewed by special reviewers, and only then posted to the site. Metacafe features a Producer Rewards program where users of this program are paid for their original content.

Revver announced a deal to make some user-generated videos available to subscribers of Verizon's VCAST service. On VCAST, Revver videos will not contain the revenue generating advertisements at the end, but Revver plans to share half of the revenue from the venture with content creators.

Yahoo! 360° goes a step further than standard friend connections by permitting the creation of forums (referred to as "groups") under which users that share a common interest can talk. If your interests include those that John Edwards has in his profile, you can connect with scores of Americans with similar lifestyles, interests, and concerns.

Blip.tv has been built to try to facilitate 'citizen journalism' more than most other video mediums. Robert Scoble who knows a thing or two about both John Edwards and videoblogging is a fan, as is Amanda Congdon — both have used Blip.tv to make an end run around broadcast networks.

Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network is a non-partisan, political, social-media website — C-Span meets YouTube. Advocacy groups, political candidates, and elected officials use the video-sharing site to upload political media to gain additional exposure for their causes and campaigns.

vSocial profile pages allow you to display your IDs from MySpace, Xanga, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, and other services. And of course there's tagging, rating and commenting, too. vSocial also offers a bunch of tools like vSocial badges to display on social networks, Firefox Add-ons and a Google homepage gadget.

TagWorld is targeting the MySpace crowd — generally people under 25, who all want a blogging/home page presence on the web. It is very much MySpace 2.0, with flashy additions and features.

CollectiveX is a group engagement network that provides members of a group with a platform for communication and networking. Any information shared is only available to peers within John Edwards' group.

Bebo is essentially MySpace meets Facebook. It also provides video sharing (via VideoEgg widgets) and built-in Skype presence. Americans living in the UK, specialized content for you will find it's way through Bebo.

Care2 is a social network for activists. Their mission is to help people make the world a better place by connecting users with the individuals, organizations and responsible businesses making an impact. Of course, users are also connecting to John Edwards and OneCorps advocacy through the site.

Essembly is a non-partisan political social networking website that allows its users to connect with one another based on political opinions, participate in unmoderated discussion, and organize for political action.

Hi5 features a "degrees of separation" system — your network consists of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degree friends. Hi5 isn't just for R&B or HipHop fans, it's for 1st degree friends of John Edwards, too.

Xanga boasts almost 30 million blogger profiles in a network that has been growing since 1999. 'Xangans' are a devoted community, but it's a walled garden in some ways. If you're in Xanga, check out John Edwards if you're not, take a tour of the garden…

Gather is centralized, while the ideal Media 2.0 is decentralized — but to their credit, Gather is trying to make the network a player in Presidential Politics — John Edwards is there.

Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The John Edwards' bloggers have this del.icio.us account — it's a list of some of the articles and blog posts we're reading.

LiveJournal is one of the oldest blogging platforms around. If you keep a diary on LJ, add John Edwards to your friends list and feel free to utilize items from our downloads page.