Dol2day

dol2day

Type	Private
Founder	DEESITE GbR (German company constituted under civil law)
Headquarters	Aachen, Germany
Slogan	Die Politik-Community (the politic-community)
Website	dol2day
Type of site	Social network, Virtual community
Registration	required
Available in	German
Launched	May 15, 2000
Current status	active

dol2day is the name of a social networking platform for politically interested German speaking people. dol2day is the abbreviation for “democracy online today”. Most of the members are college and university students, pupils and younger professionals, in particular from Germany. Average age is between 20 and 30 years. The website was launched in May 2000 by five students from Aachen. Therefore dol2day claims to be one of the oldest social networks and the biggest for politics in Germany. The site is a combination of Internet forum and multi-user dungeon (MUD).

Features

dol2day provides several features for its members (“Doler”). Users are able to keep and maintain a personal page. This page contains information about their name, age, contact details, interests, friends list, political preferences and group as well as virtual party memberships within dol2day. Doler also have the option to upload a photo on their personal page. Furthermore the website provides a private messaging service for its members and an internet radio. dol2day is comparable to other social networking sites.

Users can start public-opinion polls about political and social topics. In these polls all Doler are able to discuss the issue and to evaluate articles by other member.

Doler are accessed to vote an “Internet Chancellor” for a period of four months. This “Internet Chancellor” organizes chats with politicians and other celebrities (e.g. Franz Müntefering, Christian Wulff, Günter Verheugen) and starts referendums to develop the community. But the ultimate decision makers are the owner of dol2day, DEESITE GbR, a German company constituted under civil law.

From time to time Doler are holding local real life-meetings.

External links

• (German) Official website
• (German) DORA community radio website