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New School Politics began as an idea in early 2006. Its first implementation, a mere idea, gradually morphed into the idea of a blog. Months later, we took the first step, signing up for hosting and a domain name. Ryan’s choice, New School Politics, won out against other domain names because we decided it was a combination of what we wanted to convey in our name: youth and enthusiasm for politics. Since then, we chose WordPress as a platform to host our blog and set about customizing it to best fit our readers.

On January 9, 2007, the blog went live after lots of talk and planning. Since our launch, we’ve gone through several design revisions and we’ve added tons of different plugins. To run things down for our readers, we’ve added some new features, including Book Reviews, which are powered by Shelfari. MyBlogLog has provided a platform for user communication and community building. We’ve made it easier for users to share our articles with a “Share This!” button at the bottom of every post.

We’re still not satisfied, however. New School Politics has clearly grown from what it was in January of this year, but it’s not near the website we want it to be. So what’s coming in the future? We’ll give our readers a little sneak preview at some stuff we’re working on for the next several months…hopefully finished by around June.
It’s hard for three high school students to write an article everyday, but we’re making it a goal. To help accomplish our writing aims, we’re going to be hiring several more writers. If you’d like to write for New School Politics, please send us an e-mail. With a higher post frequency, hopefully we’ll be able to build a bigger community of readers. Unfortunately, to support our readers, we plan on either soliciting donations or adding a bank of advertising. Avid readers may have noticed the Performancing ad network integration earlier in the year. We took down the unobtrusive block of ads to clear up our interface for readers. In the future, however, we’ll have a much more streamlined webpage. In the second quarter of 2007, we plan on commissioning a web designer to both design a logo for New School Politics and redesign New School Politics.
We’ll also be adding more social features. Newly popular Twitter helps to give readers constant updates on blogs. We’ve just created a New School Politics Twitter for those who’d like to receive our updates over IM and text message. Those subscribing to our feed may receive special insights and up to date news from the writers here. We’re also tossing around several other ideas to help our readers interact.
New School Politics is young and we still have a lot to learn. That’s why, in the coming year, we’ll be attending a number of conferences about technology and politics. In April, we most likely will make an appearence at PodCamp NYC, an “unconference” designed to edify its visitors about podcasting. That brings us to another one of our stipulated goals for the next quarter…a podcast. Whether it’s once a month or once a week, we’d like to be on your iPod. Look out for an announcement in the next couple of months regarding that. In May, we’ll be attending the Personal Democracy Forum, a conference dedicated to the merging of technology and politics. Our attendance at these two conferences will surely improve New School Politics.
We thank our readers for their continued support and hope that the next quarter of New School Politics’ existence will be its best yet.
Thank you,

Zach, Ryan, and Efty

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