That sounds eerily similar to the old marketing lifestyle/behavioral/psychographics that main stream marketers have been using Claritas for - http://www.claritas.com and as some smart person, think it might have been in the book Groundswell, mentioned - that's for folks that want to shout into the cave and listen for the ecco, in otherwords, agencies that are good at defining a message, broadcasting (media placement), and then measuring results, which is the old politics - the new politics is represented by things like Obama's iPhone app (I am not stumping for him - just giving an example) - a platform of tools to empower people to talk with people - and that means less marketing, and more social media strategy - creating a platform that is Built for Conversation (the title of my upcoming talk).
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Carol Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's another way voters are being categorized: > > The Christian Science Monitor identified 11 places across the US that > represent distinct types of voter communities. > > http://www.csmonitor.com/patchworknation/ > > They are Monied 'Burbs, Minority Central, Evangelical Epicenters, Tractor > Country, Campus and Careers, Immigration Nation, Industrial Metropolis, > Boom > Towns, Service Worker Centers, Emptying Nests, and Military Bastions. > > ------------------- > Carol J. Smith > Principal Consultant, Midwest Research, LLC > http://www.mw-research.com > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/167/781 > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel: +1.617.281.1281 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: semanticwill | gtalk: wkevans4 twitter: semanticwill | skype: semanticwill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
