Links and Comments 16/11

http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/political-online-advertising-strategies-near-election-day

A valuable insight about Adwords: target the long-tail: you want to reach voters who are researching issues, voters who are likely to be undecided (example here: “North Carolina unemployement rate”)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-maslansky/hope-and-change-20-its-th_b_766839.html?ref=twitter

If you listen to the Tea Party candidates…actually listen to what they (as opposed to the media filters) are saying, you start to hear the [...]

Deliberative Democracy…and the Tea Party

As I was browsing the web, I found yet another small discussion of deliberative democracy; here’s a small excerpt:
Deliberative democracy stems from the belief that democratic leadership should involve educating constituents about issues at hand, and that citizens may significantly alter their opinions when faced with information about these issues. Advocates of [...]

Comments 19/10

Here we go:

http://www.faz.net/s/Rub7FC5BF30C45B402F96E964EF8CE790E1/Doc~E400678D137D843899DBE031140F0BD39~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html (German)

Politics is more and more perceived as the simulation of competence and influence. There’s work to do.

http://e-blogs.wikio.fr/le-blog-comme-outil-politique (French)

Blogs as an opportunity to “humanize” politics; I like this: I’d say you can “sell” “humanity” in politics both as authenticity/personalization and ethics, so the trick is to combine both of them efficiently.

http://nonprofitprforum.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-tea-party-means-for-communicators.html

But how can [...]