Liberal Democrats: Flock Together

Apologies to those of you who wanted to use Flock Together this afternoon. The site (along with all the other sites I host with 1and1) was down for about 6 hours.

Another reason to sort out some new hosting, I suppose.

Congratulations to David Peters for being the 1,000th account on Flock Together.

So far Flock Together has recorded 1,426 meetings, by-election and resources, comprising amongst others: 356 council by-elections, 329 social events, 237 campaigning sessions, 227 organisational meetings, 70 public meetings, 64 policy discussions, 44 conferences, 30 training sessions, 25 hustings, 17 RISOs and 5 parliamentary by-elections.

To make it all work, there’s a table in the background calculating the 1,426,000 different distances between each user and each event or resource!

Aside from the number of people who have found new ways to get involved in the party ‘in the real world’ as a result of Flock Together, here’s a special ‘hat-tip’ to the 7 people visited the Flock Together website and clicked through to joined the party online as a result!

I’ve had a bit of an RSS frenzy here at Flock Together.

There are now feeds for:

• By-elections
• Recently added or updated meetings
• Recent comments
• Blog entries

If you go to the relevant page there are also RSS feeds for organisations and comments on organisations meetings, as per the following examples for Liberal Drinks:

• Liberal Drinks meetings
• Comments on Liberal Drinks meetings

And there are also RSS feeds for individual organisations, such as this one for Federal Conference in the Spring

• Comments on Liberal Democrat Spring Conference

The organisation feeds and meeting feeds, as well as a personal RSS feed that only tells you about meetings that you are interested in, are displayed on the left hand menu on the relevant meeting or organisation page, or if you have logged in.

Some of the feeds take flags, as shown here for organisations and here for individuals.

Let me know if you would like any further options.