[Campaigns-l] changing politics

[Stephen Abbott]

I fear campaigns will simply be baffled if they come to the site in its
current state, since it's very quickly evolved in a direction that mirrors
what the WORST campaigns are doing and the worst of what is online on the
blogs.

I wholeheartedly agree with Joe's definition that : "a non-participatory
campaign works to influence people while a participatory campaign works to
involve people." Very nice!

Stephen A.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at wikia.com>
To: <campaigns-l at wikia.com>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Campaigns-l] changing politics


> Joe Daverin wrote:
> > I totally agree with this, except that I'm not quite so frustrated as
> > some of you guys sound with the thing so far. To get anything truly new
> > going will take time. As I've been futzing around on the wiki, I've come
> > to the same kinds of conclusions that have been voiced here.
> > Specifically, that discussions about specific races are probably going
> > to be too quiet or too loud, that candidate information is widely
> > available elsewhere, and that there's only 6.5 million (approx) forums
> > to discuss political issues.
>
> Exactly.  What I am interested in us doing is figuring out how to go out
> and actually get the campaigns themselves involved in using wikis for
> organization, etc.  To actually take seriously the new tools.
>
> Us discussing politics and doing a voter guide and that sort of thing
> are great in a way, too, of course.  But what I really want to see us
> putting at least a big portion of our effort into is forcing campaigns
> to take notice.
>
> > I guess if I were to make up a
> > buzzword-laced meaningless tagline I would say that a non-participatory
> > campaign works to influence people while a participatory campaign works
> > to involve people.
>
> Buzzword laced, yes, but not sooo meaningless.  I more or less like it. :)


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