Facebook plz fix, kthnxbai

Facebook, in conjugation with its current positioning, has many pieces of a puzzle that should end up being the picture of an effective online grassroots campaign, but too often the pieces just don’t fit together. Many of its Applications have a significant amount of value for those of us interested in online organization, but if they can not be integrated the netroots ball is dropped so to speak. Today I’m going to try and cherry pick parts of some of the Applications I’m currently digg-ing (terrible joke, sorry). Lets start with the bigger ones first. The Politician pages (which are actually now more like regular profile pages in nature) have lots of stuff great for people who are already interested in the politician/client, as well as many of the successful Group pages.* But Politician pages weren’t meant to be used by any grassroots organization interested in external outreach, and they really only message people who already i...