An Online Partnership with Fellow Students

As I'm preparing for another advocacy effort on the part of CSULA students, I wanted to ask you, my core supporters, to help me begin to build a strong, online, grassroots network of supporters and activists to help us fight for a better future for our University and our surrounding campus community, not to mention statewide. Over the coming weeks, I will be employing various methods in an effort to communicate with my fellow students -- including my new blog and website -- but there is one that you and I, together, can help get off the ground right now: this Facebook page.

I want you to help me grow our Facebook page community so we can begin to share our vision of a mobilized and unified CSULA with a new thoughts and ideas. After much deliberation with several key advisors, such as the Student Action Coalition at California State University, Los Angeles and the executive board of Earth LA, we came up with few easy steps that can help you start using Facebook to grow our community right away.

1. Become a supporter. The quickest way to start growing our numbers is for you to make sure you've signed up as a supporter. And better yet, when you become a supporter, your friends will see it in their News Feeds, so just by joining you'll be helping spread the word!

2. Click the Share button on my page. By sharing the page, it will be posted to your profile and in your friends' News Feeds. You can also add a comment about why you are supporting my candidacy and why you think others would want to as well!

3. Post a link to my page in your Facebook status. Use a message like, "Join me in supporting student representation at CSULA!" and include this link to my page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carlos-Lopez-Jimenez/120138260493

4. Write a note about what change here on our campus means to you and tag your friends in it. Then, include a link to the page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carlos-Lopez-Jimenez/120138260493) so they can join us and so that I too may read about your opinions and concerns!

5. Email your friends. I will be constantly updating to post relevant news regarding issues at CSULA and our surrounding community, but I also need your help! Help me by continuing the chain of information by forwarding emails to all of your CSULA contacts. Then, include a link to my page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carlos-Lopez-Jimenez/120138260493) and encourage them to tell their friends as well!

Still looking for more ways to spread the word or having some trouble? Don't hesitate to contact me at clopezj@calstatela.edu for more information!

Building a strong and active online community will help us build the vision of a green, unified, and strong CSULA campus community that we all share. But to create that community, I need your help to recruit your friends and make our Facebook page a place where we can all come together and look to the future.

Here, we have the opportunity to not just share, but also shape a new vision for LA. My colleagues and I will be posting videos, articles, and messages for the community there, but you will also have the chance to share your videos, photos, and thoughts. Together, we can discuss the future of Cal State LA and ways to make it brighter for everyone.

Thank you for your continued support, and make sure to keep an eye out for new tools as we build this online movement.

Very Truly Yours,

Carlos Francisco Lopez-Jimenez