MySpace.com

[Charles L. Cotton]

Okay, everyone sit down before reading further. I have a MySpace.com account. Yes, 58 years old and I have a MySpace account. When you finish laughing, read on. (My 33 year old son is still laughing!)

At the last NRA committee/board meetings, I was briefed on NRAs new MySpace and FaceBook accounts and how well they were doing. I won't bore you with the details, but some of the "kids" at HQ convinced the old guys that it was a good idea, if we want to reach an entirely new generation of potential members. I was convinced, so I finally had the time to ask a girl in my office to help me set it up. (She's 28 and she laughed too.) So if any of you MySpace gurus have any suggestions as to what I should do to the website to get more exposure for the TexasCHLforum, please let me know. I am particularly interested to see if it is possible to set up some type of RSS feed from the new blog I started (http://www.TexasCHLblog.com) so that anything I post on it becomes a bulletin on MySpace.

Thanks,
Chas.

[flintknapper]

Okay, everyone sit down before reading further. I have a MySpace.com account. Yes, 58 years old and I have a MySpace account. When you finish laughing, read on. (My 33 year old son is still laughing!)

At the last NRA committee/board meetings, I was briefed on NRAs new MySpace and FaceBook accounts and how well they were doing. I won't bore you with the details, but some of the "kids" at HQ convinced the old guys that it was a good idea, if we want to reach an entirely new generation of potential members. I was convinced, so I finally had the time to ask a girl in my office to help me set it up. (She's 28 and she laughed too.) So if any of you MySpace gurus have any suggestions as to what I should do to the website to get more exposure for the TexasCHLforum, please let me know. I am particularly interested to see if it is possible to set up some type of RSS feed from the new blog I started (http://www.TexasCHLblog.com) so that anything I post on it becomes a bulletin on MySpace.

Thanks,
Chas.

I think that is an excellent idea.

If you want to communicate with the "young 'uns", you have to go where they are. Simple.

[Kalrog]

I'm 30. I have a blog. I don't see the point of myspace or anything like that. But I guess I'm not the target market of those "social networking" sites. I hope it works out well for you and the 2A cause.

[quidni]

I have a MySpace.com account. Yes, 58 years old and I have a MySpace account. When you finish laughing, read on.

Linky?

[DoubleJ]

you can put pictures (not just in the allotted pictures area, but everywhere), you can also imbed videos, music players, and allow people to leave comments on your page, too.

I see the best use of MySpace for bands, hoping to get their music out to an audience without radio play.

but this is as well a great idea. I would suggest keeping if dynamic, as in, adding new pics now and again, adding blogs now and again, maybe have updates about NRA/TSRA/CHL stuff, like bills being filed, the Joe Horn case...

basically, I'm taking a lot of cues from this forum, and I think you could use that as a guide.

just saying, as a "young'un" that uses MySpace ALL the time.


PS check out http://www.myspace.com/socialjab hehehehehehe

[MrsFosforos]

I have a MySpace.com account. Yes, 58 years old and I have a MySpace account. When you finish laughing, read on.

Linky?

Here it is: http://www.myspace.com/texaschlforum

[ELB]

I am not a kid either , so have only the foggiest idea of the ins and outs of myspace and facebook and all that. I only hear about them when somebody makes the news doing something spectacularly stupid and a reporter quotes, post-humously, the strange things they put on MySpace. (Hint: don't put strange thoughts on your MySpace page -- nor do spectacularly stupid things!)

But ignorance never stopped anyone from making recommendations! So, Since I see you can list the NRA website as a "friend," you might want to also add the Campus Concealed Carry organization http://www.concealedcampus.org/.

Good luck. I'll be watching this with interest.

elb

D'oh! Just noticed that Concealed Campus carry has a Facebook presence. Don't know if you can belong to two tribes at once?

elb

[Skiprr]

But does Martha know your MySpace status shows: "Single"?

I noticed that!

[Charles L. Cotton]

But does Martha know your MySpace status shows: "Single"?

Remember, I'm a rookie at this!

Chas.

[stroo]

My three daughters could certainly help you as they are on myspace or facebook all the time. However, I haven't got the foggiest idea of how they work. Maybe that's why they call me the old fogy.

[locknload]

Okay, everyone sit down before reading further. I have a MySpace.com account. Yes, 58 years old and I have a MySpace account. When you finish laughing, read on. (My 33 year old son is still laughing!)

So if any of you MySpace gurus have any suggestions as to what I should do to the website to get more exposure for the TexasCHLforum, please let me know. I am particularly interested to see if it is possible to set up some type of RSS feed from the new blog I started (http://www.TexasCHLblog.com) so that anything I post on it becomes a bulletin on MySpace.

Thanks,
Chas.

First thing that comes to mind, video your Thunder Under demo the next time you do it for a Women's Clinic. That'll draw interest!


I leave you with that!

Blessings!!

[dutysublime]

Charles, lose the coat and tie in your profile photo.

[John]

Yes, 58 years old and I have a MySpace account.

Oh great, now you are on another government watch list.

[tarkus]

Watch out for Chris Hansen!