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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
I figure we will see a new poster from the other contenders try to make us feel bad. That they spent a lot of time on their idea and we ruined it.
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How?
To be honest I think that if this project did indeed have marketing component, which I believe it did, then we didn't ruin it. If you look at the wording on the site itself it encouraged people to spread the word and get their friends and family to vote for it.
We've seen evidence that these people flocking out to the social media to gain votes.
So Michael Ha followed the spirit of this assignment.
Where he failed is he acted like a really terrible telemarker, its great that he picked a website (CalgaryPuck with a large mass of potential voters. But like Al Gore he completely failed to comprehend that to get votes you need to sell your idea and why you should vote for it.
Instead he posted a nondescript please vote for me. There was no FAB on why we should vote for him and support his idea.
So he got a lesson in the real world failures of a badly executed internet marketing scheme and received a lashback from a voter base that gets a little cynical when a person's first post is a cry to action, but there's no intriguing argument about why our action should support him.
If I'm his teacher I fail the lot of them based on their failures in that aspect.
Ha for failing to sell his idea or making it the primary reason for a call to action.
And Wannamaker for failing to take advantage of the negative backlash against her opponent to gain some much needed momentum to really crush him. (Plus her video is at a main level really annoying.)