BlueBroward.orgAlan Erlich, Ralph Rickle, Cynthia Bush and her daughter Sophia have been circulating petitions to get a proposed amendment to the Florida constitution on the ballot this November. The amendment would make it easier to keep people who live in the same city grouped into the same legislative district or the same congressional district. People on different sides of the same neighborhood street wouldn’t find their voices diluted by being split into two or more legislative districts. It has turned out ot be one of the easiest petitions to get signed. It’s a pretty good idea.
May 15, 2009
Rebooting the BlueBroward.org Blog
This is a re-launch of the Blog I started here a couple of years ago. I always wanted a better way of integrating the blog with the rest of the website, so that people would be able to post blogs and comments here without needing to keep track of a separate password.
I have got that working now, and any registered BlueBroward.org member should be able to start posting blogs as of today. The blogging system is based on WordPress, which has a reputation for being fairly easy to use and working well with the search engines.
I want other BlueBroward.org members to post here because I know many of you have strong, well-informed opinions, and different opinions from mine, which should make this more interesting. I never wanted BlueBroward to just be my soap box. It’s supposed to be for the whole local Democratic community.
I haven’t actively blogged here since 2006, but I still think some of the points I made then about things like effective email communication are legitimate. The old posts are available here, at least for now. I think there may be a way of loading them into this system, but I haven’t gotten that far.
Update: I’ve now imported the old posts so they’re visible here. Some of this is pretty outdated, and some of it (particularly on web/email strategy), I still stand behind.
Best of the Old Posts
Because some of the old posts are fairly outdated now, I thought I should highlight a few that I believe are still relevant in terms of strategy for exploiting the Internet.
Political Email
Email – please identify yourself
Campaigns and other political organizations, like most organizations of every type these days, have made use of the Internet integral to their operations. But they don’t always do a good job of it. I’ve been known to make some mistakes of my own, of course, but there are certain principles …
Even Big Campaigns Screw Up Email
This is a perfect example of how even big campaigns sometimes miss on the basics of email communication. So I’m scanning through my email on a busy day, and it contains a mix of spam and commercial promotions. I make my living as a tech magazine writer, so some of …
Interesting Christian Science Monitor piece on the hazards of email miscommunication. Not specific to politics, but something to keep in mind for every kind of email interaction.
Web Strategy
The Worst Thing a Campaign Web Site Can Be Is …
…outdated. The same could be said for most Websites, political or not. But when I do a campaign Web site, I want people to come away with the impression that there’s a lot going on with the campaign, momentum is building, this is a campaign worth getting involved with or …
The Broward DEC Web site is dead again
This really annoys me. One month to the election, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the Broward County Democratic Executive Committee website. Until recently, it hadn’t been updated since July. Then somebody posted a tiny item with a link to the AM 940 website — I guess because chairman …
Compare and Contrast – Broward Republican Executive Committee
Out of morbid curiousity, I took a look at the Republican website for the county. See the comparison: http://www.bluebroward.org/img/compare.htm