A month ago I criticized the Young Democrats of Missouri for among other things, having a crappy website that they never bother to update (there’s still a poll about Matt Blunt on the front page.) Not surprisingly, it’s still completely inactive. So is their Facebook page, which appears to be stuck in September of 2008.
All of this is made more infuriating by the fact that I listened to speech after speech by candidates at the YDMO convention for the various officer slots, each of whom talked about how they wanted to improve the YDMO online presence. Instead, since being elected, not a thing has been done.
As I posted previously, this isn’t in a vacuum. We have a huge amount of momentum from what the Obama campaign accomplished last year in winning the youth vote so decisively. Because we know the state party isn’t going to get it done (more on that in a future post) the Young Democratss of Missouri should be out front in showing what can be done to reach out to young people across the state with new media. For some reason, they are not. YDMO is continuing to waste a great opportunity.
UPDATE: Lo and behold, the Facebook page has been updated with the current officers. And the YDMO home page finally displays a poll about a current topic and an April press release, instead of a poll about Matt Blunt and a press release from mid-September.
Still crappy, but making progress.
…it takes time, effort, commitment, and discipline to feed the content beast.
And the next time those individuals run for office in the organization someone should make sure everyone else knows about it.
But I am like busy and stuff! I am so absorbed with me and all my friends who adore me! And like I became a Young Democrat because my cellphone told me too because Obama is a Democrat and stuff. It took me like a hour to do my part to get him elected and now that he is, I am done.
Like my cellphone and my jeans and my hair, my President defines me. All that work looks good on my resume, which I have been giving to everyone because I can’t find a job and stuff. The mall is closed and without a mall I don’t know how to instantly gratified my neo-consumer media imposed self image!
So get out of my grill. I am going to the new club on Washington since my card isn’t maxed yet and I will drink Mojitos with real people who like me for who I am, which is me. Obama will fix this so I can be the full me again!
Text me when you get over yourself!