Self-organizing Presidential campaign

[Douglas D. Germann, Sr.]

Hi--

Does anybody get Wally Bock's weekly newsletter? This week's has a mention
of the material on the web sites of Kerry and Edwards, and then goes on to
say:

 << Dean has that stuff, too. The writing is more emotional, though, and
 << there are more stories. The stories are about "official" campaign
events,
 << and about locally organized meetups. And Dean's blog has more key
 << postings from folks who aren't officially part of the campaign.
They're
 << just supporters.
 <<
 << "Just" supporters?  It turns out that the real difference between Dean
and
 << everybody else is that he treats his supporters like a giant,
 << self-organizing staff of experts. The key to that is giving up control,
 << reversing the great political campaign trend of the last decade or so.

But notice this a few paragraphs down:

 << The big news story of the past few days has been Dean's decision to
forego
 << federal matching campaign funds.
 <<
 << Dean made the decision to forego matching funds after hearing from his
 << supporters.  They used all the technology resources available to get
all
 << the participation they could. The result was a decision where
supporters
 << had real input.  That's powerful stuff.

Yup, Wally, those of us who have experienced OST know how powerful
participation can be. It is a wonderful day when the politicians start
seeing it too....

(Wally's newsletter can be seen at http://www.mondaymemo.net/ . I think it
is a good one.)

                              :-Doug. Germann

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