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I’ve been wondering for a few days now what is the next “thing” or brilliant idea the campaign will have in store since the “Rally for Romney” events have come and gone (successfully). Well I got my answer today: an official online social site for Romney Supporters called Team Mitt Action Center, or TMAC. (No TMAC does not stand for Tracy McGrady of the Houston Rockets.) I’ve already signed up for the site (user name PlanetRomney) and checked out some it’s features. I think this will work well to help average supporters to instigate their own grassroots movements through fundraising, recruiting etc. It is similar to some other social sites (facebook) but is dedicated purely to Romney supporters, which I find a lot more inviting. Click this link to join. If you have already signed up for Team Mitt then you just have to create a username for the site.

Once you do sign up, this is the site you can bookmark to sign-in: http://tmac.mittromney.com

Here is the press release from the official campaign in it’s entirety:

Boston, MA – Today, Romney for President announced the launch of Team Mitt Action Center, an online social networking platform that shares features common to popular social networks like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. Team Mitt Action Center empowers Governor Romney’s supporters at every level to make a direct, positive impact on his presidential campaign.

Team Mitt Action Center features include the ability to load your picture and customize your profile; to create and manage events in your neighborhood; to engage in grassroots, peer-to-peer fundraising; and to network with friends and fellow supporters across America. After the current beta phase, additional features and expanded functionality will be added to accommodate Romney supporters as the campaign progresses.

As part of the launch, Romney for President is also announcing “Ask Team Mitt Anything,” a weekly series of live, online, text-based chats with prominent supporters and members of the campaign.

Campaign Manager Beth Myers will host the first chat on Tuesday, October 9 at 2pm EDT in anticipation of Governor Romney’s participation in the CNBC/MSNBC/Wall Street Journal debate in Michigan. Ann Romney, Political Director Carl Forti, and Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) will host “Ask Team Mitt Anything” chats in future weeks. All chat hosts will have Team Mitt Action Center profiles to maintain an ongoing connection with campaign supporters.

Mindy Finn, Director of eStrategy, said, “Team Mitt Action Center continues our campaign’s practice of providing cutting-edge, innovative, and democratizing tools for voters to get involved in the political process. And the ‘Ask Team Mitt Anything’ chat series will provide a great opportunity for our campaign to engage and interact with supporters across America.”

To sign up for Team Mitt Action Center, please visit: www.MittRomney.com/TMAC.

Selected Team Mitt Action Center Features:

My Dashboard: Team Mitt members will use their dashboard to track their friends, their fundraising, their events, and their network progress at a glance. As they engage new voters and grassroots supporters, Team Mitt members will see their progress bar move forward.

My Profile: Team Mitt members can customize their profile with their picture, their contact information, their issue priorities, their coalitions, and their presence on other social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and Flickr.

My Fundraising: Team Mitt members can set goals for and track the progress of their peer-to-peer fundraising efforts, send personalized fundraising appeals, and invite friends to join Team Mitt.

My Events: Team Mitt members can create their own events to discuss the campaign or raise money for Governor Romney or find nearby events in their own area to attend.

My Friends: Team Mitt members can search, add and manage their friends within the Action Center. Members can set privacy settings for each of their friends to control the amount of information that each is permitted to view.

Sign up! and encourage your friends to do so too. Then put the site to good use.

~Nate Gunderson

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NETROOTS AT ITS BEST!

Two simple requests for all of us —- PLEASE:

1) Join UltiMitt Now — Ask three friends to join after you do.
2) If already a member, ask five friends to join right away.

Over the last seven to eight months, many people have asked how they can get involved and help Governor Romney get elected President. There is a great site from which to get up-to-date information on the campaign and Mitt’s competitors, but more important, the site allows you to create your own forum and subject for discussion and debate. See below for details.

Please join UltiMitt now by clicking here: Join Now! It is FREE and literally takes 15 seconds to join!

WHY? Here are some great reasons:

MEMBERS: There are many very influential Romney supporters counted as members today (UltiMitt has 800 members today). Once a member, you can look up the names of every member of UltiMitt; it’s easy! Members include senior Romney campaign staff, national and regional Romney committee chairs, major leaders in GMR’s fundraising and grassroots work, Romney family members, leaders of industry, bloggers, etc. I cannot mention their names yet, but prominent people you all know will soon join UltiMitt. Why not join them now, early in the campaign season and MAKE A DIFFERENCE??! It is time to step up and influence others.

FORUMS: Currently, there are 540 active forum subjects (over 3,400 replies). Forum topics with lots of involvement include: “Board Conduct”, “Huckabee’s Record”, “Thompson to Announce”, “Mormonism & Mitt Romney”, “Why I Like Mitt Romney”, “Fred has Waited Too Long”, “Mitt Takes the Gloves Off!” You can join today and create your own forum TODAY.

Have you considered starting a blog in support of Romney but just cannot find the time to take on such a commitment? Well, once you join UltiMitt, create your own forum topic and get a good debate going on a timely subject, important to you.

NEWSLETTERS: Once you are a member, you will receive regular newsletters (that you choose) about specific Romney for President topics that you can then forward to family and friends to influence them.

TEAMS: There are currently 20 active teams formed at the site. If you are an attorney and want to join other attorneys on a team, you can. You might be a college student from a university that has a bunch of Romney supporters; get them involved in a team. If you are a business owner who might be affected by immigration reform, you can create your own team of other business owners and get involved to influence the national debate.

NEWSCENTER: If you are like many people, you do not have the time to check multiple sources for your Romney and political news. No need to look further. Once you join, you will see two to six new news stories posted in the NewsCenter every day and you can have the confidence they are the most important news items surrounding Mitt Romney and his candidacy.

Let’s make it happen!

[TO ALL ULTIMITT LEADERS: Please drop in and leave a comment and add your thoughts where I might have left out important attributes]

~ Vic

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U.S. News put out an article (by Chris Wilson) yesterday called Romney’s Blogosphere Buzz. Following his success at the Ames straw poll MR 2008 made a jump to #2 (usually held by Pres. Bush) on the list of key people that are most blogged about, just behind the fictional character Harry Potter - “No one touches Harry Potter”.

Check out Blogpulse.com to see the actual results. They are tracked on a daily basis. Romney is back down again as Karl Rove has shot to the top (even above Potter).

From the article:

Riding the news of his victory in the Iowa Republican presidential straw poll, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney enjoyed a tremendous boost in attention from the blogosphere, supplanting President Bush as the second-most-blogged-about person on Sunday, according to Nielsen Buzzmetrics. He is still a distant second to Harry Potter. No one touches Harry Potter.

Mindy Finn, Romney’s director of E-strategy, said yesterday was also a record day for traffic to the campaign’s website, even though it was a Sunday, typically not the busiest day for Web surfing. “Usually Sundays are naturally slower days, but yesterday was one of the highest traffic days MittRomney.com has seen since its launch in January,” Finn wrote in an E-mail. As the White House increasingly has to compete with the 2008 election for attention in the political arena, the second spot in the ranks—and maybe even the first, if the unthinkable happens and Harry falls—is up for grabs.

Hitting #1 (for REAL people) is a good accomplishment for the Governor, and it won’t be that last. It will become a daily occurrence when he becomes President.

~Nate Gunderson

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