[Campaigns-l] Great, here are some ideas...

[Chad Lupkes]

This kind of history is great information.

http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Politics_on_the_Internet

Let's expand it so others can add their own history as well.

Chad


On 7/12/06, Steven Clift <clift at publicus.net> wrote:
>
> From:                   "Stephen Abbott" <nhprman at comcast.net>
>
> > The idea is catching on...
> >
> > Political Strategists to Launch Web Site
> > Jul 11 7:42 PM US/Eastern
> >
>
> These ideas have been around a long time.  The first web site in this
> space with a civic mission dates back to 1994:
>
> http://www.e-democracy.org/1994/
>
> In 1999 the ".com" boom swept up a number of folks with the notion
> that they could make money on essentially a civic mission.  Someone
> from Voter.com once said to me, "stock options Steve, stock options."
> To which I replied, "I can help you lose less money."
>
> By 2000, sites like SpeakOut.com, Voter.com and later Policy.com and
> Politics.com fizzled as economic models.  Grassroots.com shifted
> gears and pass the once .org DNet to the League of Women Voters who
> then partnered last cycle with one of the few commercial survivors
> Capitol Advantage which runs Congress.org (they used to make print
> political directories for lobbyists/etc. pre-Internet days and it
> looks like DNet is now gone.)  In the end, the incumbent media brands
> won the day in terms of provision and access to _value-added_
> election information.
>
> More from 2000:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@tc.umn.edu/msg00105.html
>
>
> With HotSoup.com they claim they will be "the first platform
> dedicated to bringing together these influential
> audiences." (Opinion Drivers) If they succeed, yes at a _national_
> level, but we've been doing this and something more inclusive in
> Minnesota since 1994 and locally since 1998 with our forums.  In fact
> our lesson is that local efforts have the most potential as national
> partisanship struck deeper into Minnesota's state politics.  The
> HotSoup model seems to suggest a more elite approach as connect
> celebrity opinion drivers with what others call influentials.*
>
> While I am supportive of any effort (particularly those with real
> everyday citizens as volunteers) which give citizens better access to
> information and community that helps them engage in elections and
> politics, if it has to generate a profit to survive as a business ...
> good luck.
>
> Steven Clift
> http://publicus.net
>
> * See some interesting reports from the Institute for Politics
> Democracy, and the Internet:
>
> http://www.ipdi.org/publications/
>
>
> Putting Online Influentials to Work for Your Campaign
> July 2004: Putting Online Influentials to Work for Your Campaign
> describes the techniques that the Bush campaign and others have
> adopted to take advantage of the unique characteristics of online
> political Influentials--their persuasive ability, their political
> activism and their large social networks.
>
> Political Influentials Online in the 2004 Presidential Campaign
> February 2004: A new community of citizens defined the 2004
> presidential campaign. These citizens are Internet-oriented,
> politically energized, and they support their candidates by visiting
> their websites, joining Internet discussion groups, reading political
> Web logs and making political contributions over the Internet. Even
> before the first primary, they played a pivotal role in the campaign,
> and they may be harbingers of permanent change in American politics.
>
> Pioneers in Online Politics: Nonpartisan Political Web Sites in the
> 2000 Campaign
>
> August 2004: During the 2000 election, political information Web
> sites such as Voter.com, Freedom Channel and DebateAmerica were
> heralded as the new way to engage Americans in politics. Then the dot-
> com crash occurred, and many of them closed their cyber-doors
> permanently. What happened? Pioneers in Online Politics looks at the
> collapse of online politics after the 2000 election and suggests a
> new roadmap for providers of political information online.
>
>
> Nonpartisan Poltical Web Sites: Best Practices Primer
> August 2004: Nonpartisan political Web sites have a mixed track
> record. Many of the innovations launched during the 2000 election
> have since disappeared. However, the online political community is
> enormous and growing, creating great opportunities for effective
> nonpartisan political Web sites during the 2004 election and beyond.
> This primer puts forth a series of recommendations and best practices
> designed to revive political information Web sites now and in the
> future.
>
>
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