In the early hours of February 10th, 2007, New Media Director Joe Rospars posted the second ever HQ Blog post:
Coming to Life...By Joe Rospars - Feb 10th, 2007 at 2:18 am ESTAbout two hours after a midnight beta launch, the site is already coming to life. ... The site is already brimming with groups, blogs, fundraising pages, and events. Getting started early are Idahoans for Obama and South Carolinians for Obama, just to name a few of the many newly-created groups.
Coming to Life...By Joe Rospars - Feb 10th, 2007 at 2:18 am ESTAbout two hours after a midnight beta launch, the site is already coming to life.
... The site is already brimming with groups, blogs, fundraising pages, and events. Getting started early are Idahoans for Obama and South Carolinians for Obama, just to name a few of the many newly-created groups.
Some of the first blog posts that night included Nathan in Quincy, Illinois, writing from his dorm room before leaving for Springfield to watch Barack's announcement speech, and William in Maryland who admitted he had not voted in a presidential election since 1992 and described himself as "never [having] been this motivated or energized about a political campaign."
Since that night, over one million people have joined the MyBO community. They've formed groups, worked together to host over 150,000 events, written countless blog posts, made phone calls, knocked on doors, and been the heart of a grassroots movement that has evolved into what may be the most impressive field organization in the history of American politics.
Many of our earliest HQ Blog posts received only a handful of comments each. Over the next twenty months, the comments section exploded into a community of its own, and has become an essential part of the site itself. It is often the first place where readers turn to share stories, get answers to questions, find motivation and support, or simply vent their frustrations among friends. At times, discussions on the HQ Blog have reached over 2,000 comments on a single post, and we sometimes see as many as 10,000 new comments in a single day.
Throughout the primaries and now into the general election, supporters have used the community here on the HQ Blog to inspire and to motivate one another time and again to make that next phone call, knock that last door, or donate one more time.
Now as we near the end of this long journey, we thought that it was only fitting to take stock of what the community here on the HQ Blog has accomplished. With that in mind, we've created a MyBO group called the "Obama HQ Blog Community," and we're inviting all of you who have been with us here, whether for 20 months or 20 days, to join.
It's an imperfect measure of what you've accomplished, but it's also a symbol of what can happen when people join together to work for a common cause.
As Joe explained in that late-night post nearly two years ago:
This site will always be a work in progress, but everyone here is excited to see what we can do together.
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