For someone not officially in the U.S. Senate race, Curtis Coleman certainly is looking like a candidate.  Today, he launched a full-fledged campaign website completely with a flash video introduction, online giving, testimonials from supporters (including Brenda Turner, Huckabee’s former chief of staff), and a place to sign up for updates.  A quick look at the site’s design and you can quickly see that Coleman has already started investing some money in this campaign.  Add to that his new twitter, facebook, and even a blog and you can see he is serious about running.

Coleman’s website includes a biographical sketch which highlights the portion of his career spent at Safe Foods Corporation (which also had a recent website redesign – hint more flash video), his motivational speaking at the University of Arkansas, and his management of Gov. Huckabee’s unsuccessful campaign for U.S. Senate in 1992, although he leaves out the portion of his career as a Southern Baptist evangelist, which is when I knew him.

He also posted his first blog entry. I will cut him some slack, as this was his first blog post but I cannot help but make a few observations.  First, the post is well over a thousand words.  My advice – keep it shorter.  People don’t read long posts.  (In fact, I bet most of you already stopped reading this one by now.)  Also, you might avoid referring to people as “red, yellow, black, brown and white” as people can be somewhat sensitive about that sort of thing.  Other than that, I will give the web effort a big thumbs up for a good looking website and using all the different types of social media.

Blake Rutherford Thinks (get it!) about the same as me – nice website – not so much on the blog.  I guess we are blog snobs.