http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/27856/barack_s_boring_website Comments for "Barack's Boring Website" en http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/27856/barack_s_boring_website#comment-2232 <p>Patrick, your post makes no sense to me. Its a geeky critique of a tool that is for the mainstream web user.</p> <p>Elections are all about "transactions". Not just money but volunteering, engaging and doing things like getting out the vote, voter registration, getting folks together like House parties etc.</p> <p>Your reference to the lame McCain Nation is even less sensible. Obama had over 4000 house parties on June 28th and has thousands of volunteers out actually working on voter reg while McCain is just now putting out a social site on the "Internets".</p> <p>The "GOP toolbar" - that is a joke right? </p> <p>Your reference to "a well-honed machine run like IBM at its peak, not a hungry, innovative startup" is a bad thing? Elections are won with discipline and focus not some naive startup mentality.</p> <p>The typical voter has no idea what Twitter is and does not care. They are day to day web users who need basic, simple, easy access and sites need to work for them.</p> <p>The campaign could clearly update pages more frequently and all sorts of things but most of us use our MY BO page and by now know where to click to get the info we need.</p> Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:49:25 -0400 jnail comment 2232 at http://www.techpresident.com http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/27856/barack_s_boring_website <p>The common wisdom is that BarackObama.com is not only better at wrangling donations from the faithful, but is categorically better than JohnMcCain.com because it embraces an interactive as opposed to a broadcast model. </p> <p>But let's not kid ourselves. At its core, BarackObama.com is not truly interactive. It is transactional.</p> <p><a href="http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/27856/barack_s_boring_website">read more</a></p> http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/27856/barack_s_boring_website#comment Barack Obama Email fundraising innovation John McCain strategy Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:35:06 -0400 Patrick Ruffini 27856 at http://www.techpresident.com