Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and sports advocacy (Part 4)

This blog post is part 4 of a series dicussing my experiences with Facebook, Myspace and Twitter as they relate to  advocacy issues that highly affect the women’s sport sphere. This is an assignment for a class I’m enrolled in as part of John’s Hopkins University’s Digital Communications program.

The theme of this week’s post is “learn from example.” Because our female sports feminist sisters seem to “have it together” politically, I went searching for a good site which asks readers to take action on Twitter, MySpace or Facebook. Immediately, I found one: Women’s Voices. Women Vote.

Nice widget that pulls together activity in Twitter, MySpace and Facebook, with call to action in each network

It’s a simple site that was clearly created around getting women to register to vote during the 2008 Presidential election. But beyond the seemingly “expired” nature of the content, they have a unique presence in YouTube (13 videos, page which is unbranded – not bad), MySpace (customized page with 33 friends – kindof low, but clearly shows widgets and publicizes videos), and Facebook (345 fans, but a blank wall). Seems to me like they got their basics down. They just needed a little help with public engagement.