An interesting phone conversation with a colleague working on the David Miller campaign for Mayor of Toronto left me pondering the question: If I were the Mayor of Toronto, what would my blog strategy be? It’s an interesting question for our current Mayor — David Miller — who ran as the “underdog” in the last election and now runs again almost unchallenged. Aside from the obvious implications that this has for Miller’s fundraising strategy, it also occurred to me that it would impact his campaign’s initiatives around blogging and mobilizing the “netroots.” In short, it seems that the key questions are:  read more »

What does Web 2.0 have to do with grassroots advocacy and electoral politics? Well, that’s the question that we set out to explore yesterday during the workshop that I delivered (with my good friend Mark Greenspan
of the Habitat New Media Lab) at the Mesh conference. For those who were at the workshop, you can find the slides as a PDF here and Sacha’s notes on the session here (and, if you have feedback on the session, please drop me a comment below!). read more »