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By: dan mcquillan
Call me a curmudgeon, but this looks to me like the successful assimilation of social media by a traditional political campaign. Rather than challenging a top-down system through p2p collaboration it’s...
View ArticleBy: Week 10 - Wrap Up « Digital Democracy
[...] engagement – from epolitics.com: Now let’s look at the Obama numbers and see how they break down. Thirteen million people on the [...]
View ArticleBy: cpd
Which brings up the question of whether policy and decision-making SHOULD be crowdsourced! It really comes down to that classic question of whether we’re electing representatives to do our bidding or...
View ArticleBy: K Street Cafe » Blog Archive » Inside the Obama Numbers: Tiers of Engagement
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View ArticleBy: Brad Fitch
While I wholeheartedly agree with the thrust of my colleague’s Colin’s comments, I must correct one factual error. He notes that according to Congressional Management Foundation research, which I...
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Hi Brad, thanks for clarifying that — I should have been more explicit. When I was talking about advocacy emails that have little effect, I was thinking about the mass, undifferentiated email campaigns...
View ArticleBy: New Geek Links : Wesley Donehue
[...] e.politics: Inside the Obama Numbers: Tiers of Engagement [...]
View ArticleBy: dan mcquillan
Hmm. The idea that elected representatives are making independent decisions must be open to challenge. See for example Sunlight Foundation’s PARTY TIME or any of their work mapping voting decisions...
View ArticleBy: Disconnected | Akkam's Razor
[...] epolitics explains: It’s a rule of thumb in the advocacy world: the more difficult an action is, the fewer people will take it and the more valuable it will be. The more someone goes out of his...
View ArticleBy: e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics » Climate Change Helps...
[...] Nat Journal piece neatly captures another dynamic as well, the idea of moving activists up tiers of engagement: For Freedom Works, each new e-mail address represents an opportunity to rear a new...
View ArticleBy: e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics » Winning in 2010: Online...
[...] common approach to supporter management is to provide activists with escalating levels of engagement. Like a the rungs of a ladder, each higher engagement level requires more work and holds fewer...
View ArticleBy: e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics » Winning in 2010: Putting...
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