Comments on: Politics is Viral — AND Local http://www.epolitics.com/2008/12/30/politics-is-viral-and-local/ dissecting the craft of online politics and online advocacy Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Andy Mirsky (www.mirskylegal.com) http://www.epolitics.com/2008/12/30/politics-is-viral-and-local/#comment-536541 Andy Mirsky (www.mirskylegal.com) Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:28:02 +0000 http://www.epolitics.com/?p=1453#comment-536541 Hey Colin, you're right, I do agree with you more than I disagree. Your post was thought-provoking and I was showing the thought that it provoked, I guess! I like your additional points about the nonprofit world, by the way. Hey Colin, you’re right, I do agree with you more than I disagree. Your post was thought-provoking and I was showing the thought that it provoked, I guess! I like your additional points about the nonprofit world, by the way.

]]> By: cpd http://www.epolitics.com/2008/12/30/politics-is-viral-and-local/#comment-536428 cpd Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:10:37 +0000 http://www.epolitics.com/?p=1453#comment-536428 Andy, I love you like a brother, and it hurts me deeply to have to point this out, but I think you're actually agreeing with me by the end. Boil it down and what I said was, good piece, bad title, and the piece actually contradicts the title. Which is also I think what you're saying! As for the broad applicability, we're seeing it every day in the nonprofit world, as plenty of groups are learning to use their supporter lists for more than overnight fundraising and email advocacy -- some are finding ways and providing tools to turn supporters into evangelists in whatever communities they're a part of (whether local or not). Andy, I love you like a brother, and it hurts me deeply to have to point this out, but I think you’re actually agreeing with me by the end. Boil it down and what I said was, good piece, bad title, and the piece actually contradicts the title. Which is also I think what you’re saying!

As for the broad applicability, we’re seeing it every day in the nonprofit world, as plenty of groups are learning to use their supporter lists for more than overnight fundraising and email advocacy — some are finding ways and providing tools to turn supporters into evangelists in whatever communities they’re a part of (whether local or not).

]]> By: Andy Mirsky (www.mirskylegal.com) http://www.epolitics.com/2008/12/30/politics-is-viral-and-local/#comment-535679 Andy Mirsky (www.mirskylegal.com) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:56:53 +0000 http://www.epolitics.com/?p=1453#comment-535679 Hey Colin, nice post, although I disagree with your critique of the Vargas piece. I remember reading that last week and thinking the same thing when I read the title, but maybe it was just that it WAS poorly titled. Vargas probably could have made a stronger point - as you did - about how the virality of social media makes the locality of politics that much more powerful. I think, though, that he really does make that point pretty well through his examples, and the Northern Iowa example is exactly that. You make a good point, though, talking about how (well, I THINK this was your point) the Obama campaign was smart about taking advantage of social media's ability to "validate" relationships that people make on the local level in order to cement those relationships. The result was the strength of these unbelievable local machines that the campaign built. This was entirely innovative, and does seem to be the most powerful lesson to be learned. My question would still be how this is applied beyond the campaign. Andy Hey Colin, nice post, although I disagree with your critique of the Vargas piece. I remember reading that last week and thinking the same thing when I read the title, but maybe it was just that it WAS poorly titled. Vargas probably could have made a stronger point – as you did – about how the virality of social media makes the locality of politics that much more powerful. I think, though, that he really does make that point pretty well through his examples, and the Northern Iowa example is exactly that.

You make a good point, though, talking about how (well, I THINK this was your point) the Obama campaign was smart about taking advantage of social media’s ability to “validate” relationships that people make on the local level in order to cement those relationships. The result was the strength of these unbelievable local machines that the campaign built. This was entirely innovative, and does seem to be the most powerful lesson to be learned.

My question would still be how this is applied beyond the campaign. Andy

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