Comments on: More Tips on Blogging and Websites http://yda.org/blog/post/276 The Young Democrats of America Blog Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:39:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Kevin Bondelli http://yda.org/blog/post/276/comment-page-1#comment-471 Kevin Bondelli Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:33:38 +0000 http://yda.org/blog/?p=276#comment-471 <p>I think that there are a couple reasons why certain candidates have other people run their social network profiles. First is the amount of time that goes in to running a successful profile. In order for a profile to be more than just another outlet for traditional communications, someone needs to be tending to the correspondence and constantly updating content. In a campaign the candidate has many other demands upon his/her time the prevent this. Second, most candidates did not come up during a time when they would have had their own profile personally. It will be interesting to see what happens in the future when candidates that run for higher offices have their own personal profile. Will they create a second official one or will they use their personal one? </p> <p>There is always a risk in having a volunteer manage a public face of a campaign, yet only the most funded campaigns can afford to hire staff for the purpose of social networking. However, there is a happy medium in accountability between a volunteer and staff: the intern. Interns are less likely to just disappear from the campaign than a volunteer is, and interns seeking college credit are accountable to the campaign. </p> <p>One important thing to keep in mind is that the person controlling the profile should be on the same page as the campaign, and that the campaign itself is aware of all of the profiles and login information.</p> I think that there are a couple reasons why certain candidates have other people run their social network profiles. First is the amount of time that goes in to running a successful profile. In order for a profile to be more than just another outlet for traditional communications, someone needs to be tending to the correspondence and constantly updating content. In a campaign the candidate has many other demands upon his/her time the prevent this. Second, most candidates did not come up during a time when they would have had their own profile personally. It will be interesting to see what happens in the future when candidates that run for higher offices have their own personal profile. Will they create a second official one or will they use their personal one?

There is always a risk in having a volunteer manage a public face of a campaign, yet only the most funded campaigns can afford to hire staff for the purpose of social networking. However, there is a happy medium in accountability between a volunteer and staff: the intern. Interns are less likely to just disappear from the campaign than a volunteer is, and interns seeking college credit are accountable to the campaign.

One important thing to keep in mind is that the person controlling the profile should be on the same page as the campaign, and that the campaign itself is aware of all of the profiles and login information.

]]> By: Rob Dolin http://yda.org/blog/post/276/comment-page-1#comment-470 Rob Dolin Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:50:38 +0000 http://yda.org/blog/?p=276#comment-470 <p>As I’m sure you guys are aware, there are both benefits and pitfalls to having volunteers act as agents for a campaign. The better campaigns figure out how to do this while the weaker campaigns fight with their volunteers. In many ways, the Obama campaign has enabled volunteers by providing tools at http://my.barackobama.com while the Clinton campaign has been late to the party here.</p> As I’m sure you guys are aware, there are both benefits and pitfalls to having volunteers act as agents for a campaign. The better campaigns figure out how to do this while the weaker campaigns fight with their volunteers. In many ways, the Obama campaign has enabled volunteers by providing tools at http://my.barackobama.com while the Clinton campaign has been late to the party here.

]]> By: Kevin Bondelli http://yda.org/blog/post/276/comment-page-1#comment-469 Kevin Bondelli Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:22:20 +0000 http://yda.org/blog/?p=276#comment-469 <p>Good question. I’ll put together a post soon with my thoughts on it.</p> Good question. I’ll put together a post soon with my thoughts on it.

]]> By: Kevin Berry http://yda.org/blog/post/276/comment-page-1#comment-468 Kevin Berry Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:10:39 +0000 http://yda.org/blog/?p=276#comment-468 <p>What are your thoughts on using volunteers to manage online media presence like MySpace and Facebook? In the past some candidates have turned to supporters that have created alter ego’s on social networks to provide the campaigns “official” profiles. Are these supporters too hard to control, is the user started phenomenon viable moving forward, or is it just a function of the fact that higher up politicos have traditionally been social network illiterate?</p> What are your thoughts on using volunteers to manage online media presence like MySpace and Facebook? In the past some candidates have turned to supporters that have created alter ego’s on social networks to provide the campaigns “official” profiles. Are these supporters too hard to control, is the user started phenomenon viable moving forward, or is it just a function of the fact that higher up politicos have traditionally been social network illiterate?

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