A website, and few advertisements, and there ends the relation between most of our politicians with web and I don’t think they like blogs.
But still, there are a few who blog, including L.K Advani, whose blog is filling most of adsense spots for us these days. If you know more blogs, please post the links in the comment section. It will be very bad if we ignore them.
Question 1. Internet is not so popular in India, so why waste money and time ?
Agreed, Internet is yet to reach the common man at it’s full extend and usefulness. For many who actually use it, there are only very few things beyond orkut and gmail chat.
There are people who are using internet in India, and you can not ignore them. Through internet you can reach the youth of this country, and that makes it a long term investment in spreading the political ideology.
Spending few bucks on adsense and setting up a website is not enough for this. You need to do some good social networking.
Question 2. Will it work ?
( I found this on slideshare … goes well with this post !! )
Well, thanks for that question, friend. Let me ask you a question before I answer this one. How did you know about BigB criticizing Slum Dog Millionaire ? I saw it on the Tv and read from newspapers before I saw it on the web. That’s how our media is !! So don’t worry about getting publicity of blog posts, or anything happening on the web. They will take it to the masses.
This will work !!
1. Start a Blog
2. Post campaign Photos to Flickr.
3. Post campaign speeches and other videos to Youtube
4. Create an Orkut community
5. Create a Facebook community.
anything else guys ?
Social networking is less costly, and its free most of the times. Works better than google adsense for sure.
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Hey we need to talk ! I am planning something of this sort at work..let me know..!!
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Well Obama did it why can’t Advani
but this is not America
but, still, some of it should work here also !!
I guess it is just that the percentage of Indians on the Internet is rather small. For the politicians the most votes are in rural India, so being very active on the Internet isnt a big priority for them.
The Internet penetration in the US is much higher, which is why it makes more sense for Obama etc to devote so much attention to social networking.
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the scope is very less compare to US … agreed … but still , there are better ways than Google Adsense .. right ?
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