The American Assn. of Political Consultants' Academic Outreach Conference of 2007 was held at the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics. This is the ppt I used to explain how blogs differ from the MSM and what's good and bad about those differences. I followed Seth Godin's six word rule.

1. Making Democracy Happen News, Bloggers and New Media in 2008 Ohio Jill Miller Zimon Wide Open: blog.cleveland.com/wideopen Writes Like She Talks: writeslikeshetalks.com [email_address] University of Akron Bliss Institute of Applied Politics October 11, 2007

2. Blogs are different From Bernard Most’s book, The Cow That Went OINK

3. Pay attention to me…

4. Connect with me… From Burning Man 2006 by Tom Davis at www.geometer.org

5. Tell me something I don’t know… Pete Hanson  2004

6. Work with me.

7. Keep your eye on the blog. From http://www.deskshare.com/Resources/articles/rss.aspx

8. Do you know who I am?

9. Conceal & skew=Reveal & spew

10. Issue? I don’t even know you. Photo courtesy of Subodh Chandra

11. Does anybody really care? On a typical day in August, 26 million Americans were using the internet for news or information about politics and the upcoming mid-term elections. That corresponds to 19% of adult internet users, or 13% of all Americans over the age of 18 . From 9/20/06 Pew Report on E-Gov and E-Policy

12. A day without blogs is like a day without…  Jim Borgman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9/30/04