Green Party to launch "social media blitz"

[thereader]

Christ, climate change will be back !

the snow will come back to us

[jmcc]

Green shoots of recovery, huh? What's the Green politburo up to these days? How's Ryan enjoying his "pension" and Dan Boyle, has he managed to get elected to anything yet?

Regards...jmcc

[lostexpectation]

Anti-Green bile seems to be some of the most bilious bile on this site. It seems disproportionately bilious to me. Perhaps I am a watermelon and should be put to death, or added to a fruit salad.

whether you like "green" policies or not, the greens screwed us, dont' act the martyr now greens, you did it

[Keane]

Will this blitz be sponsored by a company that makes diet pills? Big Dan was going out of his way a few weeks back on his twitter feed about the miraculous virtues of a certain brand of diet pill. Has big Dan lost any weight btw?

[dent]

Is Dan Boil's album part of the offensive ?

[rash mulligan]

Cuffe and Ryan need to held accountable for promising 10,000 green jobs that have yet to appear.
They are an activist group, not a political party.

[miclin]

In reality, the Greens are reorganising their website and making sure that local and national policy information and contacts are clearly accessible. There is hardly any money and only one staff member so naturally there is going to be more focus on getting the website right before traditional costly media. The party is being relaunched this weekend with the 30yr anniversary party in Vicar Street.

I found this article interesting about the FG online campaign in GE2011. Particularly the idea of 40 volunteers staffing computers for 20 hours a day...

Singh's star turn for Fine Gael - The Irish Times - Fri, Apr 29, 2011

My feeling was that FG's online campaign was counterproductive. Remember Fine Gael girl? "Join the team, Ireland 2.0, Enda Kenny"? Fine Gael's twolicies? It was often hard to tell parody from official material. Labour seem to have a much better handle on internet media. FF didn't do much interaction on the internet but at least their site is easy to follow. ULA sites were clear and effective.

None of the parties pay any attention to politics.ie because it has such a narrow number of readers most of whom have their minds made up already. Parties focus their efforts on calling and texting radio programs, writing to newspapers, getting in the frontline audience - all of which reach a massive number of undecided people. There was some attempt to organise people in the greens to do this in the past but even then, it would have been a far smaller operation than any other party was managing.

[jmcc]

In reality, the Greens are reorganising their website and making sure that local and national policy information and contacts are clearly accessible.

Well that should be easy - are there any real Greens left? Not the student union level wannabes - real Greens?

None of the parties pay any attention to politics.ie because it has such a narrow number of readers most of whom have their minds made up already.

Actually they do and there are identifiable party members on P.ie. The problem with "social media" gurus is that most of them are wafflers from PR who learned a few buzzwords. They just don't get the Social part of Social Media. Social Media's power equation can be stated quite simply: People influence people.

Parties focus their efforts on calling and texting radio programs, writing to newspapers, getting in the frontline audience - all of which reach a massive number of undecided people.

Well guess what - newspaper readership is falling. People don't really bother with radio programmes where the same bunch of overpaid f*cktards waffle day after day.

There was some attempt to organise people in the greens to do this in the past but even then, it would have been a far smaller operation than any other party was managing.

It probably got hit by the IQ factor - you have to have smart people running such an operation for it to be successful. It takes a bit more than buzzword bullsh!t.

Regards...jmcc

[tigerben]

A green Christmas is about all they can hope for!

[Mushroom]

Anti-Green bile seems to be some of the most bilious bile on this site. It seems disproportionately bilious to me. Perhaps I am a watermelon and should be put to death, or added to a fruit salad.

We don't expect honesty from any other political party - but we genuinely believed that the Greens (including the articulate, passionate, persuasive Ryan) were different. More fool us.

They promised us real change and we believed them - then they gave us only more of the same. For that, they will be reviled forever.