Thanks to @keryp on Twitter who retweeted the link for this voting badge…yes, I voted this morning and got my Starbucks after. (Too bad they didn’t extend the free coffee to include lattes.) Yes, you may think it’s last minute–at least I went this morning and not this evening.So, if you haven’t voted yet, what are you waiting for? At least the free Starbucks should be incentive.
Testing your campaign ideas out online can get you more than useful feedback, it might just save you from a complicated legal issue later.
The Art Van Furniture company recently had some ideas on how to redesign the look of their delivery trucks. They posted the ideas and asked people to vote.
One early choice was a truck that showed a leather sofa emerging from a partially unwrapped candy bar. 
The candy bar looked a bit too familiar to the folks at the Hershey’s chocolate company. According to a Hershey’s’ lawyer, Art Van was trying to cash in on the “substantial fame” of the…
Right on the heels of the news that Barack Obama spent $44,000 on ads inside of video games this month, Gamasutra is examining the effects that video games have on the election process.
The GOP has released games with both the 2004 and the 2008 elections. In 2004, it was a game called Pork Invaders, featuring a McCain ship flying around shooting vetoes at pig “aliens. In 2008, it’s a game called Tax Invaders,
Tax Invaders cast taxes in the role of the alien enemy and George W. Bush as the executive-hero who would save the people from them, an apt characterization of conservative…
Had I the time to volunteer at a grassroots level for a political candidate I would be doing so.
I recently participated in a PR News/Cision survey about social media regarding its use and how executives perceive and use this new bonanza of public outreach.
The results are in and, according to the survey, social media involvement is now considered a standard public relations practice. That doesn’t mean everyone wants it to be, however.
The more than 900 people who participated also “voiced a mixed bag of concern, skepticism and optimism over the value of the blogs and social networks that are currently being implemented within their organizations.”
That’s not really surprising considering many of the folks getting corporations involved in the…
Okay, forgive my ignorance. Despite being a Twitter addict, I’ve yet to find out what/who the Twitterati are.
I am into social networking, I love social media. I love Twitter especially. I am also a business owner. Where does the line between personal and business interests stand?
I confess, I have met prospective clients via Twitter. However, it was not my sole intention to Tweet to troll for business–it became a happy accident in the few aforementioned situations. Has Twitter become a tool for Svengalis out in the business world? I love the idea of as meetup.com puts it: “use the internet to get off the internet”. However, once it becames a blatent tool for commerce, then I get mixed…
I’ve spent the last couple of days trying to get tickets to, and attending a rally for Sarah Palin. I would not have known about it, if not for an email from the McCain campaign. I am not voting Republican, but I thought that my teenager would enjoy the experience, so I found out the best place to get the tickets, and we went this morning.
It got me to thinking about the difference in political advertising in the last decade or so. When I was a kid, we had yard signs and buttons and the occasional commercial on television. Now,…
Despite all the chatter about how “historic” Campaign 2008 has been, it is the McCain-Palin ticket that it is truly testing the limits, not of race or gender politics, but whether the United States is ready to enter a new dimension of political lying. — Robert Parry, Consortium News
Not to state the obvious, but with my background being the news business, I leave marketing observations to the many tenured marketing minds at this and sister Talent Zoo web logs. Until now – because political ads are a subject with which I’ve a long history. As a reporter, you’re always at odds with…
I hitched my journalistic future to digital new media thinking it the greatest information tool ever seen. In the midst of the ongoing U.S. presidential election, I’m starting to also see it as the greatest enemy to information. This is why I’m remembering the famous Pogo line, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Economist and columnist Paul Krugman correctly noted that John McCain’s and Sarah Palin’s “Blizzard of Lies” are “assertions that anyone with an Internet connection can disprove in a minute.” In Palin’s interviews on CBS’ and ABC’s nightly newscasts, the little-known governor of Alaska not at all surprisingly…
