Organizational Democracy

Joe Rospars, the New Media Director at Obama for America writes, “This site — and this campaign in general — will always be a work in progress. We’re going to experiment, we’re going to try new things. Sometimes it will inevitably be a little rough around the edges, for sure, but that’s the risk we’re going to have to take if we’re going to run this campaign in a new way.”  http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post_group/ObamaHQ/GMV

What a great approach.  Yes, I wish the focus of the website was more on getting votes than on raising money.  How do you get votes?  You tell your friends and ask them who they’ll vote for and when they say a particular candidate and are convinced, then you got votes.

Can anyone get votes?  Yes.  Can you track it?  Yes.  Is http://My.BarackObama.com tracking it?  Not yet.

Anyway, check out BarackObama.com for a good example of community organizing, community building, getting people involved.  There’s a lot of groups up already and the “My” mini-site’s only a day old.  I have a blog up at http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/alex mainly to comment on the online campaign itself.

It’s a good start.

And if you want to search the blogs, go to http://MyBarackObama.com click “Blogs” and in the lower right corner click “Search All Blogs.”  To see results from all blogs, just search for nothing (just press Search without entering any text).  Why do people who set up community blogs, like Joe, so often make it easy to read their blogs but difficult to read the community’s blogs?

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