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Originally Posted by Diabolo_7

Will an online donation be set up early so that FPM can maximize the donations for it electoral campaign?

it was previously discussed in this thread: 2009 Parliamentary elections - donations & fundraising

The online donation can not be independent from FPM, it will be part of FPM's official elections campaign, and FPM's official campaign didn't start yet.

There will be online donations, but we have to wait for the official campaign to kick off.

Originally Posted by shevchenco

usually in canada and US election campaigns, bashing your opponents is acceptable in video ads is acceptable. are we allowed to do this or should we only stick to what FPM has done, achieved, and capable of doing?

Bashing our opponents is not on our agenda, but if one of their candidates made a funny speech for example, we will post the speech.

Originally Posted by Abou Sandal

I propose a thread for emergency issues.

I predict that the bitters will do everything possible to derail the elections,or prevent a fair competition.This thread should relate to what is happening on the ground only.It should be restricted to accurate reports and complaints.

Any infringement,misbehavior,irregularity on the ground,could be reported instantly in this thread,and then notified immediately to the electoral machine,to take appropriate action and measures at once. An elections watch thread.

A new section will be opened about the elections, and your suggestion is a good one, we will have a sticky thread about emergency issues.

Originally Posted by Aoune

I work a lot with blogging actually all FPMers should be on Twitter.com . This is even better than Facebook.

X pm me so that we discuss the strategy as it should be a concerted one and not haphazard but will not divise on an open forum.

By the way anyone who wants to see an excellent political campaign look at Obama08.com . Regardless of one's politics the guy is using the net like no other .

Well, Lebanese are on Facebook, i have no idea about Twitter.com

So Facebook is a must, but that doesn't mean we can't do something on Twitter.com

Originally Posted by TonyFPM

The most important e-campaign in my opinion is the mass mailing thing. There should be a professional team working on it. It reaches most people and is more effective than any other technique. The forum must be used as a platform to help, support and give ideas to that team, since the Forumers are very clever in such issues.

That is called Spam, unless people sign up for a mailing list to receive emails, you can't send emails to people (technically you can, but that is spamming), we do have 15000 emails on the Forum (Registered members' emails) and when someone joins the Forum, he agrees on receiving newsletters from the Forum, so we can use that.

Originally Posted by Bachir

I think there is a lot to do through YouTube and forwarded emails,

we need to refresh some memories, to show the contradictions of 14 march during the last 3 years. (Jumblats speeches, Geagea's speeches and history, financial statistics to show the robberies...), maybe we can choose some scenes from Majzarat Ehden's documentary and send them by emails....

we need to avoid being provocative, and be constructive in our critics.
like avoid using photoshoped photos we used to send during 2007 such as "la doumou3 ba3da al yawm", "hakim ma tjib wled saad bi jib 3annak" (I used to creat such posters by the way, and ready for a new round).... such provocative photos and slogans will give them sympathy between their audience, so we need to do it this time in another way.

we need to focus on things like fuel price compared to the petrol's price, we need to focus on the electricity thing, Sanioura's holidays for 14feb's martyrs only.... we can send such messages through funny photoshoped photos and write our message on it in a funny and constructive way and straight to the point, coz in general the lebanese people dont like to read, they just like to see photos.

Maybe we can open another thread later for "forwarded emails", posters, articles and videos that must be forwarded, everyone will post what he have or create and post there.

About the emails, check my reply to Tony.

About the rest of your post, you can join the Blog team and do what you suggested.

Originally Posted by Canadian

Some ideas:

1) Organize e-meetings with the candidates, let them explain their electoral programs and let the forumers ask them questions (Eventhough I suppose that not everyone would be able to ask his/her questions and seeing that the forum staff shouldn't be the one doing the screening, maybe the candidate could chose the questions he would like to answer to). Let there also be questions by non-FPMers where we could let other people understand what the FPM is doing and why.

That is on our agends.

2) Sequel to 1) : Open a subforum for all candidates

No need to open subforums for each candidate, but we can open a thread about each candidate.

3) More organisation in the forum, enno really a lot of members here who think they are protecting the FPM by being violent against none FPMers are actually destroying its image.

I somehow agree with you, but we can't do much about it, it's up to the members to "Self control"

4) Organize campaigns in other forums where a certain team of our forumers could go and explain FPM's vision in the best way possible.

(La2anno people who don't like the FPM or who don't know what the FPM is, won't come here, and it's our job to go towards them and not the other round)

It's against the Forum rules to promote other Forums, but no one is forbidden from going to other Forums, but it won't happen "officially".

5) Organize an e-mail database of supporters (and none supporters) this way we could send an e-mail with details about the campaign etc (like Barack Obama's e-campaign)

Check my reply to Tony