Comments on: Jersey City Campaigns Embrace the Web … in Fits and Starts

By: Joe Harkins

Joe Harkins — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:54:06 +0000

Excellent piece. Solid stuff.

Speaking as one of a number of local web site developers and web site hosting services, I wonder how many of the candidates spent their campaign money locally?

It was good to see mention in this article of some local web site developers. The amount of local web site building and hosting money that goes out of the city and county, yet is paid for by local political sources and grant money and local government agencies, is a scandal. Many UEZs take their locally generated budgets and spend it on web sites, advertising and printed materials bought outside this area.

This same issue of JCI examines the economic effect of local spending. Given that web site developing is a labor intensive process, it’s fair to say that money spent locally on those services stays in the community.

Thanks for 2 excellent pieces of journalism.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:07 +0000

Good piece on getting the most out of the internet. I’m running a non-profit site, so the local political angle is not my primary interest, but the same issues apply across the board. Very comprehensive and reassuring in making me realize I’m not alone in struggling with these issues. This writer knows what he’s talking about. Very helpful. Right now, we’re juggling one website, three blogs, plus Twitter and Facebook and getting ready to develop our own short take videos for YouTube. We need all the help we can get.

By: cruz

cruz — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:41:27 +0000

hey guys. just read this piece; thanks for the positive mention about (the no longer on-line) harveysmith.org.
dan levin’s team also did a great job. ad did JCI, covering the madness.

david cruz

By: Dan Levin

Dan Levin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:17:52 +0000

Tom,

great insight and perspective. still trying to “get” Twitter….. lots more to learn.

to be discovered – how to get out the vote and increase voter turnout more efficiently. what would Minnesota’s 78% voter turnout do to JC politics…..

Dan

By: Jon Whiten

Jon Whiten — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:18:28 +0000

Enoch-

Love the link. Awesome.

As you can see in the piece, we didn’t really wade into the MySpace waters, mostly because the web 2.0 trends show less and less action there and more on Facebook, Twitter and the like. But thanks for pointing out that Catrillo was on there.

Re: his FB page, I thought I remembered that, but I couldn’t find it when we were researching this piece — is it gone now?

By: enoch needles

enoch needles — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:12:50 +0000

Guy Catrillo had both MySpace and Facebook pages with some 60 members. The pages contained both policy positions as well as advocacy for causes such as Liberty Humane and the 6th St embankment. And no candidate could top Catrillo’s appearance as an early performer on MTV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhpI2viDEQc