Come visit PopRule booth 302 in the Exhibit Hall.

And tweet your political issue with the hashtag #whatsyourissue.” Everyone who tweets their issue has a chance to win a $50 iTunes gift certificate.

When PopRule launches publicly in September, we’ll categorize your issue and associate it with relevant people, organizations, letters, petitions, groups, elected officials, videos and stories. PopRule makes it easy to participate in democracy and take political action.

Follow PopRule on Twitter @poprule ]]> http://blog.poprule.com/2009/08/poprule-net-roots-nation/feed/ http://blog.poprule.com/2009/04/poprule-road-aprilmay/ http://blog.poprule.com/2009/04/poprule-road-aprilmay/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:00:06 +0000 andrew http://blog.poprule.com/?p=186 PopRule Co-founder Rob Kramer will be representing PopRule (and, as always, handing out buttons like crazy) at a couple upcoming events. Are you going to be there? Send us a tweet @PopRule and tell us!

Net Roots Nation New Media Summit (Friday, April 17)
Bently Reserve, 301 Battery Street, San Francisco, CA

Rapid Messaging: Creating Measurable Impact on Society, Politics and Media (4:55 to 6 PM - 1st Floor Conference Room)
Can a quirky status update, tweet, text message, social news story, or social letter have immediate and measurable impact on society, politics and media? This session, led by cultural anthropologist and Guerilla PR CEO Michael Leifer, PopRule co-founder Rob Kramer and ChangeSF founder James Hanusa will focus on effective rapid messaging using social media applications such as Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Flickr and PopRule and more.

Politics Online Conference (April 20 - 21)
Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004

The Politics Online Conference sits at the intersection of smart politics, good governance, transparent democracy, and innovative technology, spotlighting tools, applications, strategies, and ideas that affect a range of functions, from writing policy to organizing democratic movements to running a smarter political campaign to building dialogue with your constituents.

Fifteen years later, in the new political age of Barack Obama, social media driven politics has not only provided the foundation for electing the first African American President, but it has turned politics into a social conversation that is as culturally relevant as who Paris Hilton is dating. PopRule expands O’Neill’s political insight beyond geography by transposing “all politics is local” into the more culturally relevant truism that “all politics is social.”

In an age where headlines often dictate the nature of the collective conversation, be it on the local or national level, we believe it is important to remember that our politics are both local and social.

And in our quest to create more relevance and context for the way our streets are paved or how the decisions of local school boards affect our kids, we recognized the need to organize the marketplace for political news from a local and social perspective. And so, PopRule was born.

We welcome your individual or group participation by submitting news, commenting, popping stories, and forming groups on PopRule. Who knows, we may just get to the place where, one day, the “population rules.”

PopRule

Currently, these are available as simple scripts:

Pop It! Button: The Pop It! Button lets readers submit stories right from your site, pop stories that have already submitted, and view how many pops the story has received. To add the button, just copy the following code and replace YOUR_URL with the URL of the story you want people to pop.

<script type="text/javascript">
url_site = 'YOUR_URL‘;
</script>
<script src=”http://www.poprule.com/tools/PopIt.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>

Simple Pop It! Link: If you just want to provide an HTML link to your users, we suggest the following code, but you are welcome to modify it to fit the look and feel of your site. Again, replace YOUR_URL with the URL you want popped.

<img src="http://www.poprule.com/tools/poprule.png" /> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.poprule.com/submit?url=YOUR_URL“>Pop It!</a>

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