On Monday, December 8th www.dontgomovement.com will unveil its Social Media Platoon, a social media and technology blog. The website, found at http://social.newsplatoon.com, will serve as a place for technology-minded conservatives to meet and work together. The focus of the website will be to advance the free-market agenda through social media and inject social media into the existing fiscal conservative movement. Chris Faulkner, VP of Faulkner Strategies states, “I tell candidates and organizations that engagement with Social Media is like having a dog…the more you play with it and feed it …the less it tends to bite you.”

With the launch of the Social Media Platoon, #dontgo hopes to alleviate some of the fears and uncertainties that conservatives have with social media and to help them use the tools to successfully advance free-market ideas. Faulkner says, “Free-market conservatives are now back in a guerilla position that can only make us stronger. We are in a better position than ever to take risks and break new ground.”

#dontgo originally began as a simple Twitter tag that the founders used to track the energy debate by the US Congress on August 1st. Hundreds of activists, including members of Congress, began using the tag not just to track the energy bill, but to energize and champion fiscal conservative values. Soon thereafter the site was created and to date has over 30,000 opt-in email subscribers.

The #dontgo Revolution uses web-based strategies and tactics to advance free-market values. Its mission is to develop a fifty state strategy of blogs and internet social networks that would activate more conservatives in their communities leading into the 2010 elections.

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