Comments on: BlogHer, Comic-Con, and the rethinking of a presidential candidate http://www.communityguy.com/7212/blogher-comic-con-and-the-rethinking-of-a-presidential-candidate/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:26:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jake McKee http://www.communityguy.com/7212/blogher-comic-con-and-the-rethinking-of-a-presidential-candidate/comment-page-1/#comment-41752 Jake McKee Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:13:45 +0000 http://www.communityguy.com/7212/blogher-comic-con-and-the-rethinking-of-a-presidential-candidate/#comment-41752 Thanks for the comment!<br><br>As far as the politicians go, don't forget campaign staff is as much the problem as anything else. Like traditional marketers, they're slow to reform their opinions of the "right" way to do things. In particular, doing "new" types of events and events that aren't inherently "mass" is something unfamiliar to them, therefore scary. Thanks for the comment!

As far as the politicians go, don't forget campaign staff is as much the problem as anything else. Like traditional marketers, they're slow to reform their opinions of the “right” way to do things. In particular, doing “new” types of events and events that aren't inherently “mass” is something unfamiliar to them, therefore scary.

]]> By: PunditMom_JoanneBamberger http://www.communityguy.com/7212/blogher-comic-con-and-the-rethinking-of-a-presidential-candidate/comment-page-1/#comment-41751 PunditMom_JoanneBamberger Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:21:42 +0000 http://www.communityguy.com/7212/blogher-comic-con-and-the-rethinking-of-a-presidential-candidate/#comment-41751 Thanks so much for the link. I do find the tone deaf quality of politicians to venues such as BlogHer and other "non-traditional" ways to reach people of influence disconcerting. I was shocked when I read the Valerie Jarrett profile in the New York Times Magazine this week, and learned that Barack Obama had to have his arm twisted to attend an event that included over 200 college-educated black women in South Carolina. His hesitance? It was a sorority reunion. But so what -- why would Obama turn down a chance to meet that kind of group of influencers because of the type of forum.<br><br>Someday, politicians will break out of that mind set. Thanks so much for the link. I do find the tone deaf quality of politicians to venues such as BlogHer and other “non-traditional” ways to reach people of influence disconcerting. I was shocked when I read the Valerie Jarrett profile in the New York Times Magazine this week, and learned that Barack Obama had to have his arm twisted to attend an event that included over 200 college-educated black women in South Carolina. His hesitance? It was a sorority reunion. But so what — why would Obama turn down a chance to meet that kind of group of influencers because of the type of forum.

Someday, politicians will break out of that mind set.

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