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The Tyee launches Election Central 'Super Blog'

The Tyee.ca is a wonderful, feisty online publication based in BC but containing informative articles of interest to all Canadians. They have re-launched their Election Central 'Superblog'. Here is more info and links on how you can sign up or link your posts (in this email I received today):

" Just a quick note to draw your attention to the re-launch of Election Central - our election 'superblog': http://electioncentral.ca

With more tight races here than any other province, all eyes are on what happens in BC. For the last key weeks of the campaign, Election Central will be the place to go for vibrant commentary and feature articles from over a dozen regular Tyee writers, interesting feedback from readers and bloggers from around the province and country, links to election resources, and selected links from other news sources.

But don't just read Election Central. Comment, and even contribute. We want to know what the 2006 Canadian Election looks like from your corner of BC or Canada. Help turn the volume up by letting us know how you are participating in this election, what issues are important to you, and what's going on around you.

How Can You Participate?

-- WORDS AND TAGS --

1) Post your feedback. It's easy - anyone can do it. Just use the comment
form we've provided at the end of each Election Central post.

2) Do you have a blog? If so, use the 'trackback link' (at the bottom of
all our Election Central posts) to link your blog posts to our stories. (If
you're not already a trackback pro, find out more about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback).

We are also asking bloggers to tag their posts with 'tyeeelectioncentral'
when they are referring to the Canadian Federal Election and/or our
http://electioncentral.ca blog. This will help us track the conversation online using the sites http://del.icio.us/ and http://www.technocrati.com.

(Not a regular tagger? Find out more about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy).


-- IMAGES AND TAGS --

If you're a flickr.com user, tag any election-related photos with
'tyeeelectioncentral'. Your photos will then pop up in our sidebar
thumbnail gallery (up soon) with links back to your flickr page.

As well, you can ask to join our Election Central flickr group here:
http://flickr.com/groups./electioncentral. When we accept you as a contact your images may become part of the electioncentral coverage, and the best will be featured full-size on our blog.

If you're not part of flickr.com yet (it's a free image storage service)
find out about using it here: http://flickr.com and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr

You can also send us pictures the old-fashioned way - by email. Send
photos to Election Central editor Richard Warnica at richard@thetyee.ca.

-- IMAGES AND WORDS, a great combo! --

If none of the above appeals to you but you have a great image or story
about the election we'd like to hear from you. Send your images or short
stories to richard@thetyee.ca. We don't promise to post them all, but we will look at them.

Enjoy Election Central, and above all - VOTE!

David Beers

PS:
If you're interested in promoting Election Central, here's a graphic you
can grab for your website or blog:
http://thetyee.ca/Ads/ec_tower_banner_2.gif

Or, grab our Election Central RSS feed:
http://thetyee.ca/electioncentral/feed/ "

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posted by Annamarie at 5:42 PM