Posted on 11/28/2009 2:03:32 PM PST by Al B.
Though former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is known as one of the country’s biggest political celebrities – online as well as off of it -- several GOP new-media strategists believe she has significant room for improvement when it comes to her web presence.
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"She is a political celebrity,” said Florida-based Republican new-media consultant Jordan Raynor. "She has built a significant new media space in the last year.”
But Raynor, who claimed to be an “agnostic” regarding Palin, said that she has struggled to make a mark on web platforms other than Facebook.
"What I don't like about as far as an online strategy is that she puts most of her eggs in the Facebook basket. She should be extending her online cachet into other strategy,” he said.
Raynor and other consultants claim that her e-mail list of supporters could be larger considering her political celebrity.
Online political strategists have come to see an e-mail list as the essential tool of a web campaign.
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Others, such as Alabama-based GOP new-media consultant Jeff Vreeland, lamented Palin’s decision to create a new Twitter account instead of changing the name of her gubernatorial account to keep her follower base of over 150,000, though it’s not clear that she was allowed to keep her old one.
“It was just a complete failure for the people who support her,” Vreeland, who said he “still [has] questions” about Palin before he could consider voting for her should she run for office.
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Senate Republican Conference online communications director Sean Hackbarth lobbed this charge at Palin’s online presence this week: “I'm sorry, Sarah #Palin has one of the lamest online efforts of any national political figure.”
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But getting in the bus and interacting with real people is working for her.
And yet every time she posts, it is big news. Maybe lame, but it is far more effect than any other national political figure, bar none.
And after all, the Senate Republicans so effectively convey their message to America. LOL...
Senate Republican Conference online communications director Sean Hackbarth lobbed this charge at Palin’s online presence this week: “I’m sorry, Sarah #Palin has one of the lamest online efforts of any national political figure.”
And John McCain has a better one?
I guess they prefer Obama’s?
This is the problem with Republicans. They think of everything in conventional, organizational terms. See, Sarah is supposed to have an "official" website, with a party logo in the corner, managed by a bunch of "online strategists," that can ask people to sign up for email "please donate" spam.
The GOP just doesn't get it.
These “GOP consultants” are ticked off that Sarah hasn’t paid them $$$ to build websites and ad campaigns. She’s doing just fine with free Facebook and Twitter.
(Or else these schlubs are already working for other candidates...)
Yea, if Sarah doesn’t beef up her Internet presence, she’ll never get the name recognition to be a serious candidate.
I love it.
Just look at all the RINO pundits headed for unemployment. They better check, there are already too many of those lame jokes on the left and less room in the middle every day. Screw’em!
How 'bout some nice newspaper ads? /s
This is beyond ridiculous. At this time, when she is not running for any office and has just had published her autobiography, it is smart to have one single primary stop and Facebook (and Twitter to a certain extent) fits the bill.
These supposed experts can surely be linked back to other aspiring candidates. This inane article that had to search for a handful of Pubbie “experts” to create an image of Palin as lacking web savvy is the result of a general paranoia that Palin will take on not just the Dems but the country club Pubbies too.
The last dolts I would be taking advice from are the folks who ran McCain's campaign.
#1 on NYT Bestseller, Amazon and just about everywhere else. I think Sarah is getting the word out just fine.
And yet, there are a bunch of Sarah-inspired websites, like Conservatives 4 Palin, Texas for Palin, etc. All grassroots!
These ‘experts’ need to think beyond the old formula, and think about a more expansive strategy. The key is a grassroots led movement, not a ‘smoke-and-mirrors’ campaign.
It's that pesky "Going Rogue" book flying off the shelves that is stifling Sarah's on line promotional concerns. ; )
If she is the first Facebook president that would be fine with me.
Same old GOP losers that gave us the incredible online effort in the McCain debacle picking on Palin. How did that online effort work out geniuses? This is one of those times to shut up and not be heard.
Conservatives do however.
Let's show some political muscle for a change!
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