New Website That I Have Created To Promote The Liberty Movement

[Petar]

www.libertycrusaders.com

Note to Bryan: Let me know if there is anything here that you would like to possibly add to Ron Paul Forums as well.

I have chosen 8 of the most liberty oriented rep's that exist in the United States federal government, and I have created this website in order to focus on promoting them all at once.

My goal is to use the concept of co-promotion in order to create something that is more than the sum of its parts.

The site automatically creates blog posts of YouTube videos from all of the rep's individual channels, which then get re-posted to the site's Facebook page: www.facebook.com/LibertyCrusaders and also the site's Twitter account: www.twitter.com/crusade4liberty.

Articles from the Ron Paul Institute are also auto-blogged and auto-shared on Facebook and Twitter (in excerpt form with a link back to the original source).

The comments section of the blog is integrated with Facebook's threaded comments widget, so all discussion on the site can be spread through Facebook.

In addition, the site also displays the 7 latest Facebook updates from each rep, in the sidebar on the right.

I have also set up a service that will automatically post all Facebook updates from each rep to the site's Facebook page and Twitter account.

If you click on an individual rep's name, then you will only see YouTube vids and Facebook posts from that individual rep.

The site has Google+, Facebook, and Twitter sharing buttons, so that the front page and individual blog posts can be shared on social media.

If you like the site, then please share it on social media, and comment on some of the articles.

Petar

 

[Warlord]

Your list is pretty accurate. After them it only gets worse and on to different levels. Maybe look at those who voted against Boehner as a clue. Labrador is very good and I think would make a great VP pick should Rand land the nomination (he will). Gohmert is good on some issues. Walter B. Jones on some issues? there's still a few more. Much better than even a few years ago anyway!

Love the site.

 

[Warlord]

One thing it's a little slow loading them up when you click through at least to Massie clogged my browser up for a second and maybe the right hand sidebar can be improved?

 

[Warlord]

I think the slow loading is due to the facebook integration or the youtube embedding. It's pretty bad. You should ditch it for disqus for comments and find some other way of doing this ?

 

[CPUd]

It's good design. You may want to consider having no more than 5 videos on the front page.

 

[ClydeCoulter]

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Maybe, later on, you could add an "Almost crusaders" section that talked about those that Warlord mentioned, like Jones, etc... You could show how these could move to the liberty platform, if only...

 

[Warlord]

Basically there's too many youtubes embeded and its hurting flash in the browser I think... nearly a dozen of them on Amash's page. I dont know if facebook integration is making it slow or if its the youtube's. Probably the youtube's as facebook's servers should be fast. You should have no more than 3 posts on each page with a break saying "next page".

 

[Petar]

The sidebar on the right that shows the 7 latest Facebook posts is the thing that really slows the site down in my experience.

If I could convert it to AJAX then maybe it wouldn't be so bad?

I did add a caching plugin that seemed to speed things up, but maybe it still seems slow as I was repeatedly emptying cache while I debugged some things a couple of minutes ago?

 

[Warlord]

The sidebar on the right that shows the 7 latest Facebook posts is the thing that really slows the site down in my experience.

If I could convert it to Ajax then maybe it wouldn't be so bad?

Reduce the number of posts per page as there's too many youtube's then lets see how fast it is.

If still slow then can you reduce last 7 facebook posts to maybe last 5? 3? keep playing with it and optimizing.

I love the concept though it's very good idea to promote multiple candidates and build interest. Maybe give them a subdomain? like massie.libertycrusader.com - then maybe their own forum to keep users on the site and coming back.. collect their email etc this is useful to help further promote them in the future or help raise money and then other candidates.

 

[Warlord]

Definitely do a "Get Tom Massie updates in your email" and put that box somewhere prominent to collect email addresses. This would make it a fine activist tool for the movement if you can get people's emails who are specifically interested in a candidate and maybe email them a newsletter once a fortnight with the latest posts, news, videos , votes or whatever.

Also maybe you need a brief bio of each candidate at the top to introduce people to who they are what their district is... can get this info from their wikipedia's.

 

[Petar]

Definitely do a "Get Tom Massie updates in your email" and put that box somewhere prominent to collect email addresses. This is would make it a fine activist tool for the movement if you can get people's emails who are specifically interested in a candidate and maybe email them a newsletter once a fortnight with the latest posts, news, videos , votes or whatever.

I think you're right, I have to integrate email subscription.

 

[amy31416]

Definitely took a while to load, but I have a slow connection. I don't think I'd get rid of the FB parts of it, it's nice to have all that in one place.

Very classy looking site, love the sketches, and very good choices in candidates to support. Perhaps if you have a link to each person's bio somewhere, that would be good too.

 

[oyarde]

www.libertycrusaders.com

Note to Bryan: Let me know if there is anything here that you would like to possibly add to Ron Paul Forums as well.

I have chosen 8 of the most liberty oriented rep's that exist in the United States federal government, and I have created this website in order to focus on promoting them all at once.

My goal is to use the concept of co-promotion in order to create something that is more than the sum of its parts.

The site automatically creates blog posts of YouTube videos from all of the rep's individual channels, which then get re-posted to the site's Facebook page: www.facebook.com/LibertyCrusaders and also the site's Twitter account: www.twitter.com/crusade4liberty.

Articles from the Ron Paul Institute are also auto-blogged and auto-shared on Facebook and Twitter (in excerpt form with a link back to the original source).

The comments section of the blog is integrated with Facebook's threaded comments widget, so all discussion on the site can be spread through Facebook.

In addition, the site also displays the 7 latest Facebook updates from each rep, in the sidebar on the right.

I have also set up a service that will automatically post all Facebook updates from each rep to the site's Facebook page and Twitter account.

If you click on an individual rep's name, then you will only see YouTube vids and Facebook posts from that individual rep.

The site has Google+, Facebook, and Twitter sharing buttons, so that the front page and individual blog posts can be shared on social media.

If you like the site, then please share it on social media, and comment on some of the articles.

Petar

Seems to scroll slow , but I lke it .

 

[mad cow]

Nice,Bookmarked.

 

[NorfolkPCSolutions]

Well, what's this? A website that concisely represents a liberty-based message and serves as a useful tool for assisting in the waking of minds? I believe I will share the link via email to my Neocon parents. They luuuv Rand Paul, or so they say - I believe their hearts are in the right place even if their minds are not.

Place easily digestible information before folks such as they, as this site does, and they just might come around in time for 2016.

 

[FSP-Rebel]

Well, what's this? A website that concisely represents a liberty-based message and serves as a useful tool for assisting in the waking of minds? I believe I will share the link via email to my Neocon parents. They luuuv Rand Paul, or so they say - I believe their hearts are in the right place even if their minds are not.

Place easily digestible information before folks such as they, as this site does, and they just might come around in time for 2016.

That's pretty much what I thought of the site in terms of being different from what we do here (which most people don't go for) yet focuses on all media and relevant postings about true, pro-liberty politicians. The site name is also very appropriate and I think this is a great hub for us to spread around to conservative types as a way for them to keep up to speed on what the real politician heroes are up to. It's modeled similar to daily paul w/o all of their nonsense. Top shelf for sure.

 

[FindLiberty]

Nice,Bookmarked.

Yes, I did too.

 

[satchelmcqueen]

nice

 

[Henry Rogue]

That's really nice Petar. I like how you rank them. Bookmarked and I will show this to people we have coming over for the Fourth.

 

[angelatc]

I think it looks good.