Former VP candidate John Edwards will launch a podcast next week, likely being the first national politician to do so. For the technically challenged readers of InterAdvocacy, check out this definition of podcasting. (Thanks to the BuzzWebster blog for bringing this to my attention.)
The good news: 36 million Americans use text messaging. The understandable caveat: most are 18-27. Shel Holtz discusses implications for the PR industry broadly, but does text messaging have a future in politics? Could it be a way to engage younger voters with issue alerts? Or is it an Inside-the-Beltway pro tool that might work…
Steve Rubel points to a Pew statistic that shows 5 percent of users take advantage of RSS feeds. That’s obviously a number that shows the technology is in its very early stages. The interesting thing to consider here is how RSS might impact politics in a few years. For example, it could be used as…
One of the things I plan to do with InterAdvocacy is to show different techniques being employed by groups in their online advocacy efforts. Needless to say, I won’t agree with all of the groups or even techniques I feature, but these are ideas that seem worth sharing. Today, MoveOn.org‘s contribution page drew my attention. …
Politics can be a dirty business, that’s certain. In the trenches, many will do the unthinkable. Now some are speculating about PR firms creating fake blogs for the Bush Administration … or even Democrats creating fake fake blogs in an attempt to implicate the President’s team. Let’s not get too carried away here. Professional public…
BuzzWebster has links to a recap of the Politics Online Conference held last week at George Washington University.
A study by the Economic and Social Research Council found that Britons are slow to adopt the Internet as a means for communicating with MPs. But politicians and advocacy groups on this side of the Atlantic would be wise to listen to the conclusion of the study’s leader, Stephen Ward of the Oxford Internet Institute,…
Marketing guru Seth Godin points to a study about how visitors read news web sites. It’s all based on tracking technology designed to show what the eye is looking at on the screen. I’ve only had time to skim the report so far, but it is clearly fascinating reading. Just take a look at the…
WashingtonPost.com offers a commentary on the ongoing Politics Online Conference at George Washington University. It notes that one of the speakers this year came from JibJab, the outfit that created the widely viewed online parody titled "This Land." (If you haven’t seen it, you must not have had an Internet connection last fall.) The piece…
Well-known PR measurement expert Katie Paine is blogging about the International Public Relations Research Conference going on in Miami. She has an intriguing observation which hopefully she’ll elaborate on when she’s not running between sessions: Howard Dean and the DNC would be adviced to carefully study Len Barshak’s ongoing Q-Sort study of attititudes about the…