2008
Missouri LP
Candidates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Libertarian Party of Missouri Announces Grand Opening

(Columbia)  The Libertarian Party of Missouri (LPMo) announces the
grand opening of their new home on the world wide web,
www.LPMO.org, and the online home of their official state-wide
newsletter, Show Me Freedom, www.ShowMeFreedom.org.
Glenn Nielsen, Webmaster for the LPMo Internet initiative, said "We
feel  the new websites for the Libertarian Party will be a great
resource for the media as well as Libertarian Party volunteers,
officials, candidates and voters in Missouri. We would particularly
ask media outlets with a website to add a link to our website on their
elections/politics page."

"Effective use of the Internet for reaching out to voters and
organizing volunteers is especially important for third parties who
receive a small fraction of the media coverage the two major parties
receive," continued, Nielsen. Improved communications include timely
reporting on campaigns and party activities, automated discussion
lists for party business, online donations and an events calendar for
scheduling and coordinating volunteer activities.

A prominent feature of the new LPMo.org website is the new Small
Business Initiative recently launched by the party. the Small Business
Initiative Survey is now available on-line. See:
http://www.lpmo.org/issues/SBI
Enhancements to the new ShowMeFreedom Online include a search function
(by article or columnist), a Press Release Archive, a listing for
authors which can include their biographies and a special software
enhancement for creating photo albums for stories. You can see a good
example for the O'Fallen Meet The Candidates at the Ballpark event
here: (http://www.showmefreedom.org/2004/July/ballpark/).

All Show Me Freedom articles since January, 2002 are archived on the
new website. Future editions of the printed newsletter will be
available in PDF and printer friendly formats. "The new Show Me
Freedom website is part of the LPMo Internet Initiative started in
2003. This is just the start, there are a number of new features
planned for the future," stated Nielsen, who is also a member of the
LPMo Executive Committee.

Future enhancements planned include providing an RSS Syndicated News
Feed for SMF articles, Email notification of new articles for online
subscribers, submit new articles to the SMF Editor online and
archiving SMF issues prior to 2002. Observed Nielsen, "The Howard Dean
campaign for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination was lauded
for its use of the Internet to organize volunteers. Computer
programmers who worked on the Howard Dean campaign are releasing some
of the software they developed as Open Source, free for anyone to use
(http://www.advokit.net/). As Webmaster I am researching how the
Missouri Libertarian Party can benefit from its use."
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Contact:
Glenn Nielsen
Webmaster, Internet Initiative
Phone 573-499-4477
Email glenn@earthdome.org

Bob Sullentrup
Sate Chairman
Phone 314-280-2847
E-mail: rwsully@charter.net

To respond with instructions/corrections regarding the future routing
of news releases, reply to this message or send to:
Libertarian Party Media Liaison
PO Box 455, Belton, MO 64012

Further information:
Libertarian Party of Missouri
877-Vote-4-Us
www.lpmo.org

Show Me Freedom
Editor@ShowMeFreedom.org
www.ShowMeFreedom.org

Libertarian Party of the United States
1-800-Elect-us
www.LP.org