{"id":1010,"date":"2007-02-13T08:39:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T16:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2007\/02\/enabling_your_fans_connecting\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T08:39:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T16:39:58","slug":"enabling_your_fans_connecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/enabling_your_fans_connecting.php","title":{"rendered":"Enabling your fans, connecting their friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As another presidential election rolls into gear, it will be instructional and fascinating to watch how each campaign makes use of social networking systems on the web. In fact, if you&#8217;re watching correctly, a major national election can offer a practical course on community engagement &#8212; exposing the best guesses of experts on how to galvinize and direct the individual choices and social actions of an entire country.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a useful course for cultural managers, whether they work on the local, regional, state, or national stage.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, expect a <i>whole bunch<\/i> of energy and cash flowing on-line &#8212; videos, photos, blogs, meetup groups, and on and on. Howard Dean&#8217;s campaign in 2004 was a first indicator of what was to come &#8212; raising tons of cash and attention in the virtual world, but eventually falling short in the world in which people actually vote (the infrastructure of Howard Dean&#8217;s campaign has now evolved into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicspacelabs.org\/about\">CivicSpace<\/a>, a fairly cool social networking web system for social causes).<\/p>\n<p>As a first look, take a gander at Barack Obama&#8217;s new social networking site, <a href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/\">My.BarackObama.com<\/a>. It offers lots of opportunities for any supporter to start a blog, build a buddy list, schedule local events, and raise money for the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if your web site gave your most enthusiastic audience members the same opportunity, or at least encouraged and connected those who already post on-line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As another presidential election rolls into gear, it will be instructional and fascinating to watch how each campaign makes use of social networking systems on the web. In fact, if you&#8217;re watching correctly, a major national election can offer a practical course on community engagement &#8212; exposing the best guesses of experts on how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}