Collaborating With The Virtual Think Tank

The Florida Progressive Coalition announced yesterday the creation of the Progressive Florida Virtual Think Tank. You can read the full post here, but this is the highlight:

"Among the things we produce will be an e-book covering — in very specific details — every aspect of organizing, campaigning, winning elections and turning Florida into a blue state. This will be your one-stop shop for everything on activism and politics in the state. If you want to form a group, this is where you’ll go. If you want to win an election, this is where you’ll go. And this won’t just be strategy, it will be data-driven as well. That stuff you learned at DFA training about targeting voters, eventually, we’ll have all that data for you and will run the basic analysis, too."

Build Florida's DECs is also proud to announce that we will be collaborating with the Florida Progressive Coalition in the development of this website.

We can only talk in broad terms about how to build up our local parties here on this site. We can't get too specific, as our Republican colleagues are always watching. The Virtual Think Tank will allow us to get specific and trade truly valuable ideas.

We are proud to join FPC in this worthwhile and valuable project!

Name Change

This is something I've been kicking around for a while now. The name "Reform" in Reform Florida's DECs has always kind of bothered me in the back of my head. While we are indeed working to change local parties here in Florida, we're not against them entirely. Those of you who were at the Netroots Luncheon at JJ probably remember me saying that "Reform Florida's DECs doesn't mean we're against DECs, we want to help them." The name can mean different things to different people. Ken Quinnel of Florida Progressive Coalition received some communications recently which confirmed some of those initial thoughts.

So today, I'm changing the name of this blog to "Build Florida's DECs". Building is exactly what we want to do and doesn't compromise our original message of change.

The actual URL of this blog will be changing too...just not right now. I want to give all the folks who've bookmarked and linked to this blog some time to know its changing. Instead of reformfloridasdecs.blogspot.com, on Monday, July 9, the URL will be changed to buildfloridasdecs.blogspot.com. Please be ready to make these changes accordingly.

I'll be sending a blast email out shortly to all those on our mailing list.