Conservative Resources Updated 14 Oct, 05 (en francais)

* New - Angus Reid Feeds - Our Polls & Research archive—the world’s largest free-access online public opinion database—includes surveys from every continent on topics that include approval ratings for heads of government, voting intention studies and reviews of public sentiment on a wide range of global issues. Our entries go beyond simply recording numbers and percentages. Each poll is located, translated if necessary, and accompanied by a brief analytic review.

* New - Angus Reid Feeds - Our Democracy database features the Election Tracker, a unique online publication that monitors democratic conditions around the world, by reviewing background information, assessing the latest campaign news and events, describing trends in voting intention, and reporting on the outcome of a particular ballot.

* New - Angus Reid Feeds - Our Trend Analysis section reviews shifts in worldwide public opinion, examines the effect of policy decisions on the electorate, and focuses on the upcoming challenges for leaders and parties.

* New - Many of the EDA Yearly Financial returns are now being posted online at Elections Canada. It never hurts to know what kind of resources you are facing. Using the returns you can work out a rough estimate of where each EDA stands.

*New - Conservative Campaign Academy - Fall Schedule. Contact your local EDA or Candidate if you are interested in taking part in this, or you can sign up directly online.

They've added three new courses: Handling the Media, Field Organization Poll Captains, Special & Overseas Ballot. Courses run from October thru Dec.

Take advantage of these excellent resources while there is still time.

* New - CPAC Podcasts. For all you political junkies, looks like CPAC is going to start podcasting some of it's shows on the 27th of September. Audio only and details are sketchy, but it's a start.

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BasecampHQ - Basecamp is an online project management tool. Perfect for organizing and running local campaigns. You can sign up for a free account and be up and running in minutes. The only limitation on free accounts is that they don't offer file sharing. For $9 US per month, you can get a basic account that allows you to manage 3 different projects and includes file sharing. Base Camp offers Milestones, Messaging, To-Do lists, File Sharing, Unlimited users, ICal calendar sync, secure RSS syndication, secure hosting. VERY easy to setup and use.

Bloggingtories.ca - join the Blogging Tories and let your voice be heard.


BT Blogging Tips - a few simple tips for new Blogging Tories members

Blogging Tories - Conservative.ca Feeds for your site - just a simple copy, paste into your website and you can display the latest CPC news on your site. Free, fresh and easy!

Conservative Campaign Academy - run by Richard Ciano, Party Vice-President.
The Campaign Training Series for all Candidates & Campaign Workers. Training sessions conducted in a state-of-the-art campiagn office located in Bradford, Ontario - 45 minutes North of Toronto on Highway 400

Conservative Party of Canada RSS Feeds - 8 different RSS feeds to stay up to date on the latest CPC happenings. If you're not sure what "RSS" is, take a look HERE.

Conservative Party of Canada Podcast Feed - get the latest Conservative.ca mp3 files delivered to your computer.

Conservative Party of Canada - Issues (on the main menu). Stay up-to-date and on message with the latest issue related announcements from the Conservative party.

Conservative Wallpaper - three new wallpapers. Resolutions available: 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x960, 1400x1050


Videocast - http://www.conservative.ca/rss/mod/2900/2032


Radio Free CPC Podcast - http://www.conservative.ca/rss/mod/2726

CPC Employment Opportunities - new section added to CPC site.

How'd They Vote? - aims to be a non-partisan website which provides a variety of in-depth information on the operations of the Canadian Parliament, specifically, how our politicians vote and what they've said. We take the Hansards from the parliament website, and extract information on bills, members of parliament, votes, and speeches.

Add Canconv to your blog - Andrew has come up with some more improvements for his Canconv blogging resource. Take a few minutes and join the conversation.


CanConv 1.08b Beta - (Canadian Conversation) - a distributed conversation tracking application. Designed to track blog posts relating to Canadian topics. You can submit blogs and posts relating to Canadian topics. Subscribe to topic feeds or to all recent content. Designed by Andrew Anderson of Bound by Gravity.


Donation Research Tool - designed and hosted by Andrew at Bound by Gravity. Elections Canada seems to have downgraded some of their search capabilities, so into the breach comes Andrew with this great little tool. It even works faster than the EC search - go figure!

Add French Translation to Your Blog - code available for Blogger and MT. If anyone has come up with the code for any other blogging platform - drop me a line.

Google Language Tools - Google's suite of translation tools.

Google News RSS Feeds - use the power of Google to create custom RSS feeds. Helps you keep an eye on specific topics, keywords. For eg, I have created feeds for Harper, Martin and Layton, Conservative, Liberal and NDP. Helps catch some interesting articles, at times.

Government of Canada RSS Feeds - stay up to date on the latest Liberal propaganda Government announcements.

Info-Syn - Info-Syn is designed for a quick skim of whatever was published in the last little while. Check out the 'Canadian Bullet - Canada's Top Political blogs at a glance.

Institute for Politics, Democray & the Internet - a virtual treasure trove of current political research. "The Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet has three principal goals:

1. The establishment of a research base for the study of online politics, especially with respect to American campaigns and elections.
2. The design, testing, refinement, and promotion of appropriate standards of practice for the conduct of online campaigning.
3. The creation and public promotion of an online public space where good campaign practices and democratic values may thrive.

JustBlogit - great little Firefox ad-on. Gives you right-click blogging capability. Has 5 custom spots available. I have one programmed so that I can easily add posts from peoples blogs who don't have a Canconv button added. Right click, copy permalink, Right Click - add To Canconv. Very easy to use.

Babelfish - Alta Vista's site translation tool.

LocalVictory.com - a virtual treasure trove of election related articles and advice. Make sure you sign up for the newsletter while you're there.

Mambo - Mambo is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Mambo is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. For CDN political examples of Mambo see VoteRick.com and RahimJaffer.com . Check out MamboForge.net for hundreds of components and modules that you can add to a Mambo installation to extend it's capabilities. A very robust and easy to use product.

Newspaper Listing - from Neale News. If you've got a letter to the editor just bursting to get out, head on over here and let it loose. Make sure you take a look at the Letter Writing Style Guide before putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard. (Microsoft Word format)

Radio Listing - from Neale News. Give those radio hosts a piece of your mind. (just a piece, mind you, don't give it all away!) Check out the Call In Guide to prepare yourself for the show. (Microsoft Word format)

Add the Tory Transit Calculatotor your blog/website - cut and paste code brought to you courtesy of Stephen Taylor.

Have a cool tool or resource that you'd like to share with others? Drop me a line - bluebloggingsoapbox@gmail.com - and I'll add it to the list.