Why a Find A Conservative Project?

With the explosion in popularity of social media, Conservatives have more and more online properties. Finding all of them can be difficult for Canadians.

Putting them into one searchable website makes it easier to find and share Conservatives politicians, Conservative Associations, and Conservative Campus Clubs.

The growth in online advocacy has also seen an increased mobilization of left-wingers and socialists online. They are using digital tools to attack Conservatives at all levels of government.

Proud Canadian conservatives need to be able to come together and mobilize online to fight these attacks, but first they have to find each other.

FindAConservative.ca seeks to be your resource for finding information on Canadian Conservatives.

Who is Find A Conservative?

FindAConservative.ca™ is part of the EDA Help.ca Network and is a commercial marketing website for EDA Help.ca.

Find A Conservative is not affiliated with Conservative Party of Canada.

How can you help The Find A Conservative Project?

Contribute Links

If you find a broken link, or a new Conservative website, social media site, or page, please, send us the link.

Update A Profile

Are you a Conservative Member of Parliament or Conservative Staffer? Register here to update or correct a Member’s Profile.

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Find A Conservative Is Live!

It’s alive! . . . well, sorta.

Welcome to the first post of our blog Lost & Found.

Our goal is to provide updates on the development of the site. FindAConservative.ca is still under-construction.

Here is our short-term To-Do List

  • Filtered searches – Right now, we only have a text search set-up, but shortly you will be able to filter by MP, Riding, Province, Association, or Social Media.
  • Update the Profiles – We are still adding contact details to the Associations and we are always on the hunt for updated links to social media for Members of Parliament.
  • Styling & Visual Identity – The site is still very much a blank canvas. Making the site useful has been prioritized over style, but we hope to have some big updates ready by the time you check back in in the new year.

Over the medium term we have some very big plans for the profile pages and as well as adding information on Provincial Parties and Provincial Associations.

In the hopefully not to distant future will be be able to launch FindAConservative.org, our idea for an open source conservative community driven project. If you think you might be interested in joining the Project, please contact us.

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Welcome to the Digital Political Age

Welcome, and thank you for visiting my personal website. BrendanMulvihill.ca was supposed to be just a basic biography page but there were topics I wanted to write about which didn’t fit naturally into any of the other 3 blogs I contribute to (Help Blog, Digital Caucus, Lost & Found).

This blog will (time allowing) be the repository of longer form essays on the what I have come to call the Digital Political Age.

There is obviously a huge shift in how citizens acquire and share political news stories but the most fundamental aspect of a democracy, since Ancient Athens, is still getting warm bodies to come out and vote.

Our 21st century democracy exists in between to polities, the digital polis, and the national polis. Many commentators are now catching onto big data in politics, and social media continues to attract much analysis,  but I feel most of this analysis comes from people lacking in the practice of actual retail politics. My aim is to study the “retail” digital political strategies which translate into effective real world political engagement and the technologies being adopted or employed to engage voters.

If you are interesting in learning more, I would strongly recommend two websites/blogs to start:

Slate.com – The Victory Lab: Sasha Issenberg has literally written the book on the information technology revolutions inpact in US politics

Mark Blevis.com –  Digital Public Affairs: Mark Blevis provides a wealth of information on the digital public affairs in Canada, including regular analysis of the Twitter feed #cdnpoli 

I am still on the steep part of the learning curve of digital media and information technology. If you can recommend any articles or websites, please, don’t hesitate to comment or email me: brendanemail-At-bustermphost.ca

Digital Political Disclosure

Full disclosure: If you have randomly come across this blog, know that I am not an impartial analyst or detached political scientist. I have skin in the game! As a campaigner and purveyor of Political & Digital Services Exclusively for Conservatives, my research and writing has a purpose.

So, you are welcome to comment, but fair warning, any insightful commentary may contribute to electing Conservatives.

The Tory Digital Political Age