Comments on: Whose community? http://socialwebstrategies.com/2008/06/30/whose-community/ Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:25:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jon http://socialwebstrategies.com/2008/06/30/whose-community/comment-page-1/#comment-75 jon Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:23:43 +0000 http://socialwebstrategies.com/2008/06/30/whose-community/#comment-75 Indeed, community cuts both ways. There was an interesting post about this <a href="http://www.thenextright.com/allen/a-lesson-to-learn-from-the-obama-campaign" rel="nofollow">on The New Right</a>, a conservative blog, which said in part <blockquote>The Obama campaign has made the courageous decision to keep his dissidents under his tent and armed with the tools his campaign can provide to organize. Can you imagine a Bush campaign reacting like this? I can't. But if we are going to campaign effectively on the web we must understand that power resides in the grassroots and the days of autocratic control from above are over</blockquote> The group's <a href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/SenatorObama-PleaseVoteAgainstFISA" rel="nofollow">here</a>. We've been tracking <a href="http://get-fisa-right.wetpaint.com/page/Statistics" rel="nofollow">statistics on the wiki</a> ... pretty interesting. Unsurprisingly, being Slashdotted this a.m. sped up growth :-) Indeed, community cuts both ways. There was an interesting post about this on The New Right, a conservative blog, which said in part

The Obama campaign has made the courageous decision to keep his dissidents under his tent and armed with the tools his campaign can provide to organize. Can you imagine a Bush campaign reacting like this? I can’t. But if we are going to campaign effectively on the web we must understand that power resides in the grassroots and the days of autocratic control from above are over

The group’s here. We’ve been tracking statistics on the wiki … pretty interesting. Unsurprisingly, being Slashdotted this a.m. sped up growth :-)

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