TC50 for the Politically Inclined

Just as Nell highlighted a few music sites that caught her eye at TechCrunch50, I thought I would highlight a couple politically-related sites that I'm particularly excited about.

Politics4all provides a new means for the political crowd to come together. Whether you're running a campaign, supporting a campaign, or trying to get involved in a campaign, this site is the place to go to get connected. I am most interested in how this helps local campaigns build relationships and find ways to support one another in the most efficient way and look forward to seeing how they will help their users make the most of their existing social networks.

Another site that caught my attention was Vlytics and its founder Scott Tranter. Scott has put together a fantastic, and user-friendly, application that allows campaigns to aggregate data and have a much more thorough understanding of the people they are trying to reach and the cost that is going into acquiring each one of those voters. Needless to say, a tool like Vlytics gives a campaign such great means of understanding how to use its limited resources and, once again, I think this is particularly interesting when thinking about how it applies to local campaigns.

So that's my quick take on a couple political sites--definitely check them out when you get a chance!

We'll be posting our last account from TC50 soon so be sure to check back and see which companies Nell and I liked most from the top 50.

Until then,

David