Comments on: The Irish Green Party just don’t get it!

By: Rita Tobin

Rita Tobin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:00:23 +0000

I just like to say that in general as far as I’ve seen, Irish political parties have more or less ignored social media and the opportunity that lies there, at least the green party are making an effort. It may not be the best attempt ever but it’s a start.
I think I’ll look back on this day with a sense of nostalgia, similsr to getting my first text message from my ma “How r u? I’m fine TG”

By: Keith Martin

Keith Martin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:39:39 +0000

Might I plug my own Political Blog, Youtube Channel here? I regularly update my blog with info and comments and have started my own Youtube channel to keep my constituents informed. I could probably do with more opinion pieces and less press releases but its a good effort for a town councillor in the west of Ireland, is it not?

What improvments or addittions could I make?

By: Bernie Goldbach

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:02:36 +0000

The initial email needed to be tailored to the recipients. In my case, I have around 20 illustrators, animators and short-form video students who are interested in this Green Party competition. But the email caused me pause, instead of engaging me. I put that down to some of the hesitation I have about getting unsolicited email to my phone–would the originator want unsolicitied text to his phone? When someone talks to my weblog, they get directly to my phone. And that top-drawer presence is why I’m a little sensitive when people take liberties by sending me mass-market emails.

That said, I’m still interested in pointing out the competition to students.

By: Damian

Damian — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:49:07 +0000

Some fair comments. Some not. As I explained on Alexia’s post, I would like to have taken the time to tailor an introductory email to the 22 bloggers and tech journos that I contacted, then follow up with another mail. But promoting the competition is one of about 50 different things I had to do yesterday so I cut corners… with disastrous results.

Re the execution, thanks for the ideas, but centralising the receipt and uploading of the clips was the only way we could think of doing this while retaining control.

There are plenty of politically motivated and generally malevolent people out who would love to hijack something like this and link all sorts of crap to our competition. They still might give it a go. Allowing entrants to post their clips to their own YouYube channel would also let them take the video offline, which could potentially scupper this whole enterprise for us. And finally, we’re going to be showing the clips on big screens in March, so we will likely need a DVD - if not HD - version for that purpose in any case.

Thanks for the feedback, though; I will go back and edit the entry page to allow people to suggest other ways to submit their entries that may be more convenient and new media-friendly than DVDs and the postal system.