In this month's edition of Politics Magazine, Democratic online strategist Jerome Armstrong and I post our Top 10 ways to use Facebook to get your message out.

Below you'll find the first five tips, read the rest at PoliticsMagazine.com:

1. Create a Public Page
Every candidate should have a page on Facebook. You can have an unlimited number of supporters and easily disseminate unfiltered information about your campaign.

2. Add Content
Add videos, notes, blog posts and news articles to your page that your supporters can “like,” share and comment on. These features also allow you to measure which information your supporters care the most about.

3. Update Your Status
As simple as it may seem, updating your status can be an effective way to get your message out to the Facebook community. It shows up in users’ news feeds, and they can share it with other Facebook users.

4. Ask Your Supporter to Donate Their Status
According to Facebook, more than 30 million users update their statuses at least once each day. Develop an application that allows users to update their status with your messaging. This will make your application more prominent on a user’s profile and also show up in their friends’ news feeds, helping to spread your content to other potential supporters.

5. Utilize FBML
Facebook Markup Language allows page developers to create their own applications to feature tools that aren’t available by traditional Facebook applications. With FBML, you can allow users to sign up for email updates and make a donation without leaving Facebook.

Read the full list here.

What tips did we miss?

The list is in.

You nominated your friends & colleagues. The votes are tallied.

Yesterday, Politics Magazine released its list of 2009 Rising Stars.  We here at TechRepublican want to recognize the two Republican technologists who are surely keeping up the fight to push the right ahead online.

Katie Harbath - Katie is the director of DCI Digital for the DCI Group. She has worked on Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 campaign and for the Republican National Committee.

Here is what Katie had to say about being a Rising Star:

I am humbled and honored that Julie Germany nominated me and Politics Magazine chose me to be one of their 2009 Rising Stars. I'm included with an incredible group of people and am excited to see what great things we can accomplish in the future.

And, Ryan Waite - Ryan is is the president of NextDoor Politics and executive vice president of
Connell Donatelli, an online advertising and marketing firm in
Virginia. He handled the online advertising for John McCain’s
presidential campaign.

Ryan's response:

It’s a great honor and a tribute to all of the great work our team has
done over the last cycle. The best, however, is yet to come.

And we can't forget everyone's favorite Facebook & YouTube friends on the Left who also made Politics' list:

Adam Conner - Adam opened Facebook's Washington D.C. office, where he oversees the company's political and governmental outreach and directed the company’s 2008 election efforts including voter registration and get out the vote tools.

And, Steve Grove - Steve is the head of News and Politics at YouTube. A former journalist, he partnered with CNN to develop the CNN/YouTube debates during the 2008 Election.

Congrats to all - and we look forward to seeing the 'best that is yet to come.'

Some readers may remember a show on YouTube that MyDD's Jerome Armstrong and I used to do called DomeNation.

On the show, we'd interview politicians (Sen. John Kerry, Rep. Jack Kingston), candidates (Ron Paul), bloggers (AMERICAblog), and reporters (Paul Kane and Jonathan Martin) about their use of technology. You can see the archive of shows here.

After 16 months of being off-line...

We.
Are.
Back.

Here's the teaser of what's to come where you find out who we'll interview first along with a hat-tip to our sponsor: