{"id":7397,"date":"2010-10-15T13:11:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T17:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7397"},"modified":"2010-10-15T13:11:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T17:11:21","slug":"conservative-women-leading-the-social-network-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7397\/conservative-women-leading-the-social-network-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Women Leading the Social Network Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Slate<\/em>\u2019s Noreen Malone writes an incisive article detailing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2270483\/pagenum\/all\/#p2\" target=\"_blank\">the secret behind the rise of conservative female activists<\/a>: superior use of social networking.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This brand of social activism also happens to perfectly dovetail with the brand of conservative feminism that was being promoted at the (Smart Girl Summit): You can maintain your duties as a wife and mother but also become involved in the movement through making phone calls, handing out flyers, running for school board if national office seems too disruptive to your family. ( &#8220;Start small, build big&#8221; was another theme\u2014school board leads to county leads to state, etc.) You can organize an entire conference and run a highly trafficked Web site but, since those activities are not professionalized, still call yourself a stay-at-home mom. And those &#8220;maternal&#8221; skills\u2014organization, communication\u2014are just as good, if not better than, a high-powered professional r\u00e9sum\u00e9 in a movement that&#8217;s asking for foot soldiers. (But high-powered r\u00e9sum\u00e9s are OK, too\u2014cf Liz Cheney.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though Malcolm Gladwell makes some excellent points about<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/10\/04\/101004fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all \" target=\"_blank\"> the limitations of social networks<\/a> as vehicles for social change, the increasing use and adaptability of social networking technology is allowing a whole new breed of conservative activists (homeschooling mothers) to dramatically impact the national political scene; at least when it comes to news coverage and GOP primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate\u2019s Noreen Malone writes an incisive article detailing the secret behind the rise of conservative female activists: superior use of social networking. This brand of social activism also happens to perfectly dovetail with the brand of conservative feminism that was being promoted at the (Smart Girl Summit): You can maintain your duties as a wife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1104,1960,1963,1962,1756,1959,1961],"class_list":["post-7397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-activist","tag-female-conservative","tag-malcolm-gladwell","tag-noreen-malone","tag-slate","tag-smart-girl-summit","tag-social-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7400,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions\/7400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}