September 2011
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Then Again, Obama's & DNC's Apps Suck
They don’t deliver a high priority message when you launch them. Thus they don’t drive any agenda.
The Discussion Points section of the Democrats.org app never loads. And the local events map is glitchy.
Still, they have donate buttons and a current news section (even if the news is just a random stream of stories).
Oh where, oh where is the strategy?
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Funk legend Sly Stone homeless and living in a van... →
Today, Sly Stone — one of the greatest figures in soul-music history — is homeless, his fortune stolen by a lethal combination of excess, substance abuse and financial mismanagement. He lays his head inside a white camper van ironically stamped with the words “Pleasure Way” on the side. The van is parked on a residential street in Crenshaw, the rough Los Angeles neighborhood where “Boyz n the...
Where are the GOP iPhone/iPad Apps
I see an Obama 2012 iPhone and iPad app. I even see apps from the DNC/Democrats.org. But I see nothing from the RNC or any of the GOP presidential candidates, except unofficial apps from their supporters.
The Obama and DNC apps are free. The unofficial GOP apps cost money.
The Ron Paul app creator splits his fees with Ron Paul.
Good for him.
The Social Media Landscape (via Pew Internet &...
The Social Media Landscape
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Twitter Will Sell Political Ads for 2012. Can I?
Twitter announced it will be political selling ads for the 2012 cycle. These ads will not be embedded in the timeline, but will be delivered less obtrusively via:
Promoted tweets, which look like non-commercial tweets except for a small logo and disclaimer, and which appear when a certain term is searched for and will appear in a campaign’s follower’s timelines no matter when the log in;...
Don't Confuse Number of Facebook Fans w/ Success:...
It is serious mistake to think that just because Mitt Romney has 1.1 million Facebook fans and Rick Perry only has 162,000 fans that Romney is more successful on Facebook than Perry. Focusing on the size of the audience ignores the most important social networking metric, audience engagement. Why? Because each time a fan engages with a candidate on Facebook (by liking, commenting or sharing...
