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Architecture of a Successful Political Message — In A Digital Age?

Here’s one Politics Online Conference session you shouldn’t miss (besides my own open-source CMS nerdathon) — Pete Snyder, my boss at New Media Strategies and a veteran of more than ten years in the social media space, will hold the closing keynote conversation with Republican advertising guru Mark McKinnon, moderated by GW prof Dennis Johnson. They’re all three well-known smartguys, so it should be a fascinating discussion. The topic? The architecture of a successful political message, with a particular emphasis on messaging in a digital age.

To start the thinking process off, Dennis and I came up with a few questions for the brave panelists to think about over the weekend. And to help pique your interest, we’re reprinting ‘em below — though you’ll have to swing on by the panel at 4:30 Tuesday to see the magic that results. Of course, these are just starter questions, but they give a sense of the topics Pete, Mark and Dennis should be covering. Looking forward to it!

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Birth Announcement! IBI2010.org

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The day job may be needy these days, but that doesn’t mean we can completely ignore old friends and clients. So, while getting ready for last month’s Spain trip I also got to design a small site for an upcoming conference organized by the International Biochar Initiative (stars of the first Drupal site I built, if you recall last summer’s excitement).

The IBI2010 site’s built in WordPress and designed around the excellent logo they’d already had prepared, and the site’s layout and color scheme are intended to pivot off of the original IBI site while still being distinct and unique. Otherwise, the site’s very simple — besides running parallel page structures in English and Portuguese, the only “advanced” feature it has is a submit-a-presentation-abstract form, which we’ll replace with an actual conference registration form when the time comes. But simple as it may be, every site is its own little challenge, at least on the visual front. Plus, it never hurts to have a little something in the freelance column come tax time….

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