Recenseamento eleitoral no MySpace

O social networking site MySpace.com vai lançar um serviço de recenseamento eleitoral e os membros que utilizarem esta ferramenta recebem, por exemplo, um crachá que diz "Eu fiz o recenseamento eleitoral no MySpace".

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MySpace Launches Voter-Registration Plan
By ANICK JESDANUN
The Associated Press
Wednesday, September 27, 2006; 7:56 AM

NEW YORK -- The youth-heavy online hangout MySpace.com is launching a voter-registration drive to engage its members in civics. In partnership with the nonpartisan group Declare Yourself, MySpace is running ads on its highly trafficked Web site and giving members tools such as a "I Registered To Vote On MySpace" badge to place on their personal profile pages.
"Young people in this country ... are really engaged in what's happening in their community and want to make a difference," said Jeff Berman, MySpace's senior vice president for public affairs. "The key is to make it easy for them to get engaged. By putting these tools on MySpace and putting it in front of their eyes, you make it far more likely they will use them."

in The Washington Post - Business

MyBallot Box
MySpace launches a new effort to bring the benefits of social networking to voter registration.

By Andrew Romano
Updated: 8:19 a.m. ET Sept. 28, 2006

MySpace.com has a knack for making comedians (Dane Cook), rock bands (Arctic Monkeys) and scantily-clad models (Tila Tequila) cool. But now the social-networking colossus is setting its sights on a slightly squarer property: the ballot box. On Wednesday, the site will begin steering its tens of millions of members to myspace.com/declareyourself, a new in-house page where they can register to vote and—with a single click—tell their entire network of friends to follow. It's Rock the Vote goes viral. "Putting the simplest voter registration tool on a platform that already reaches 54 million unique monthly visitors is a huge step in promoting civic engagement," says Jeff Berman, MySpace's senior vice president for public affairs. "This is where people are spending their time. The potential is enormous."

in Newsweek