Posts Tagged ‘iowa caucus’

How did you get the caucus results?

More than likely, from “old media” like TV or newspaper.  But there was a surprising number of “new media” ways to get some of that information.

Mediashift posted a great article yesterday about this called “Iowa Caucuses Blanketed by Twitter, Blogs, Video

That’s the hard lesson learned by veteran GOP political strategist Ed Rollins, who was repeatedly flummoxed in a Fox News interview with Chris Wallace, who hectored him about a conversation he had that was transcribed and sent to a TownHall.com blog by the one other person in the restaurant.

It still gets hard to leverage all of these items when the rubber hits the road – good stuff!

Iowa’s Budding Political Blogosphere

A post over at Social Media Today talking about Iowa’s budding political blogs.

During the ‘06 election cycle, I was baffled about why more candidates weren’t running ads on local political sites, since they’re usually quite cheap, often on the order of $25 or $50 per week, and they’re reaching a very tightly targeted audience.

It seems like we just need ot find the right audience for our sites – then find the advertiser which fits.

Twittering Iowa – innovative thinking by Patrick Ruffini

Patrick Ruffini blogged on Dec. 19th that he was shaking things up a bit – “Twittering Iowa

I would like to launch an experiment with Twitter on Iowa Caucus night. If you’re caucusing in Iowa on January 3rd, sign up for Twitter, make sure you have the mobile feature turned on for the night, and send a Twitter a text message with your caucus location and the results in 140 characters or less. If possible, please send your message from inside the caucus location as the vote totals are being announced. Make sure your tweet contains the word “caucus” or is prefixed “@IowaCaucus” so we’ll pick it up at the account we have designated for this purpose. We’ll be tabulating the results and providing a real-time tally of our totals in the Republican and Democratic Caucuses.

Wow – I have emailed this to my com padres at gazetteonline.com – I think they are going to pull the twitter feed into their caucus site.

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