Comments on: Online Politics: Web teams

By: Video Done Right

Video Done Right — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:15:45 +0000

[...] campaigns now task people specifically with following their rivals with cameras in hand; they also produce longer ads just for the Web. Amateurs play the game, too. [...]

By: 2007 April 13 archive at PrezVid

2007 April 13 archive at PrezVid — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:08:13 +0000

[...] the Online Politics conference a few weeks ago, Joe Trippi said, â€œEvery one of these candidates is going to get caught in a macaca moment.â€ They will mess up. [...]

By: kk's blog

kk's blog — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:43:30 +0000

Cheapskate Mama’s Top 3 Tips for Professional Development…

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By: e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics » Quick Hits — March 22, 2007

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:25:32 +0000

[...] Politics Online Conference highlights and analysis from the Bivings Report, as Jeff Jarvis reports from the conference’s web team discussion. [...]

By: Jim Long

Jim Long — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:34:54 +0000

Amen SpaceyG!! I’d like to associate myself with the comments of the gentlewoman from Georgia, Grayson Daughters. “Anyone” can blog but good bloggers know how hard it is to continually post great stuff.
The “anyone can do it” meme comes with the attendant, yet oft unstated “but not everyones should”.

On a professional note, I’m glad Chuck Todd is on our team at NBC.

By: SpaceyG

SpaceyG — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:16:50 +0000

“Anyone can do it”…. ha! The comments of someone who’s edited zero frames of video for a living. I’ve been in the production biz for a zillion years now, and I still can’t edit worth a damn. Believe me, I’ve tried. It’s not for everyone and it requires skill to do well. Personally, if I was hired to “small TV” a campaign, I’d do it with a designated photog AND a crack editor. It’s a lot harder than people think to crank video product. At least to do the kinda packaging worthy of a Presidential campaign and to meet the incessant deadline demands of today’s super-charged political campaigns. Heck, before we hit ‘08, video production demands will seriously exceed a “kid and a camera.” Anyone thinking of cheaping everything down to that level is asking for trouble.

Can I get an amen, Brother NewMediaJim?

By: Tansley

Tansley — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:18:45 +0000

Yes, Alex…and it will be interesting to see the forms those favors take. I can think of one example immediately: candidate Z, in gratitude for Blogger X’s shift into candidate Z’s camp, begins posting (judiciously) in blogger X’s blog…suddenly prompting a quantum leap in readership and resultant buzz…
…which equals more clicks for blogger X re: the ads carried on his blog…

…hmm…this is starting to scare even ME…

By: Alex Hammer

Alex Hammer — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:45:56 +0000

Online politics is beginning to reach a critical mass, a tipping point if you will. That is what we are seeing at Politics 2.0, and many others are discussing as well.

If TV in politics was in some sense democratization FOR the masses, new media, citizen journalism and candidate 2.0 campaigns are the beginning of political democratization BY the masses.

As Joe Trippi notes in his book title after helping to build this foundation with the Howard Dean campaign, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”.

Before everyone had an opinion. Now - and it’s just beginning - everyone has an opinion that counts, that is specifically that the candidates are starting to increasingly recognize and in some cases covet.

When I have my opinion but it’s backed up by my video camera that draws thousands of views on YouTube and other video sites, and my pen (keyboard) for my blog that has thousands of daily readers, then the candidates will begin to take me as a voter but now also campaign particpant seriously, as they have. And when you consider the long tail of these contributions collectivelly across the poitical ecological landscape, you can see why a “paradigm shift” and “sea change” of the landscape is in order.

But we’re not there yet.

Candidates, in large part, are trying to get by with massive amounts of “friends” and one way video messages. But the most Internet progressive among them are plunging further, with interactive social networks to build true communities. Individuals engaged with real bonds that they foster, nurture and control are always the most emotionally invested and involved.

They say that Bill Clinton less than sparingly used the Lincoln bedroom to reward his friends. The winner of the Presidency in 2008 is likely to need more than one White House to sufficientlly pay tribute to assistance received.

By: Tansley

Tansley — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:34:13 +0000

Hm. And thereby we will see the mutation of campaigning. To the potential waffling and counter-watching, add the ‘change of course’ prompted by the mood swings of bloggers. Blogger X experiences a sudden ‘change of heart’ upon learning candidate Q is positioned against this industry or that environmental issue - and X is suddenly villifying candidate Q and examining the merits of candidate Z, who is FOR this or that industry or environmental issue… Meanwhile, Blogger X is taking X number of his/her readers along for the ride. Suddenly an entire voter block has jumped ship. The campaign founders, taken aback by the sudden trough in support… all hands on deck!…

This is going to make for some VERY interesting politics in the coming years…

‘… Editors surrounding themselves with ‘web folk?…’ What are you reading in the W.C., Jeff — Dante?

By: Patrick Ruffini :: Live from IPDI

Patrick Ruffini :: Live from IPDI — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:29:15 +0000

[...] blogging: Jeff Jarvis (PrezVid and BuzzMachine), David All, Mike Turk, and Josue Sierra, who posts this [...]