Comments on: Are the candidates using MySpace and other social media well?

By: Doug Haslam

Doug Haslam — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:22:59 +0000

Well, my employers are probably nonplussed that they were mentioned as a nameless “Woburn technology PR firm.”

By: Scott Monty

Scott Monty — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:52:12 +0000

Wow. Zero. That sucks. But seeing as she didn’t even get the name my town right, I’m calling a technical foul and invalidating the contest. ;-)

By: steve garfield

steve garfield — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:30:19 +0000

Great Hillary video. I actually laughed at that one.

By: Doug Haslam

Doug Haslam — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:19:43 +0000

Scott,

I would say your quote was butchered the least, in that you didn’t get a direct quote in the article. I believe I actually did say the two words Danielle used, and they are accurate.

Looks like I win the word count challenge, if we are going by direct quotes. Garfield buries us both by that measure.

By: Doug Haslam

Doug Haslam — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:17:32 +0000

Adam,

I agree that they are reaching a demographic–a new one for them, so getting out the messages to a new group is vital.

I just thought there wasn’t much of a n interactive touch to the MySpace pages, and the MySpace format is part of the problem.

By: Adam Zand

Adam Zand — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:18:59 +0000

Hi guys,
I wouldn’t give up on MySpace just yet – I’m sure active user base is far under 30 million, but it is a compelling audience with wide demographic appeal. MySpace is also reaching out to “help” candidates build sites and providing a mechanism for donations: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/5c8538de-0d5d-11dc-937a-000b5df10621.htm

Vaspers, never had the chance to tell you before now how much (big time) I like Visible Music.

By: Scott Monty

Scott Monty — Wed, 30 May 2007 03:27:50 +0000

Spoken like a true PR guy. ;-)

I like challenges, but I’ll issue you an alternative: the one whose quotes were butchered the least.

By: Doug Haslam

Doug Haslam — Wed, 30 May 2007 01:25:35 +0000

Thanks Scott– great post. They interviewed you as well, hmmm? I thought I was special, lol.

I challenge you to a word count duel in the final article

By: Scott Monty

Scott Monty — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:09:29 +0000

Doug – great points. I began to follow up with a comment, but it got lengthy, so I wrote a blog post about it: http://www.scottmonty.com/2007/05/are-presidential-candidates-using.html

By: Doug Haslam

Doug Haslam — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:53:35 +0000

I am still in shock about the Hillary/self-deprecation thing. I didn’t think she had it in her.
And I forgot to add that she seems to have cooled off any criticisms of the “Vote Different” ad parody. Somebody recognized she needed to juice up the likability and she has responded.

And Vaspers, you are more colorful in stating so than I, but essentially you summed up my feelings on MySpace– I don’t think it’s useful or interesting.