Oklahoma Students Using Facebook to help Rice

According to the Oklahoma University paper, students are coming together to help US Senate candidate and FM Youthy Candidate Liveblog guest Andrew Rice online using Facebook to mobilize young voters in Oklahoma.

"Matt Tepper, field director for the Andrew Rice for U.S. Senate campaign, taught volunteers how to use the Rice for Senate Volunteer Center application and spread Andrew Rice’s message. The Facebook application offers another way young people can get involved in a grassroots campaign, he said.

“We’re one of only three campaigns in the country using this,” Tepper said during his demonstration.

Volunteers can add the interactive application to their Facebook profiles. The application provides users with a name and phone number, and they are expected to call the person on the list and follow one of three scripts."

Thomas Friedman eat your heart out....

LINK TO THE APPLICATION (must be logged in)

They were developed by the folks at Nico Networks who are responsible for such things as the Got Tuition? Facebook Application and the Rock the Vote Action Center on Facebook.