http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/how-well-networked-are-political-campaign-blogs/ The Bivings Report (TBR) is a source of news, insight, research and analysis on the web-based communications industry. TBR content is posted, created and managed by internet strategists, media/communications analysts, web developers, designers and programmers, all of whom are employees of The Bivings Group. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:13:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/how-well-networked-are-political-campaign-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-193159 Blog Campaigning: 5.3 How can we measure the impact of blogs? « BlogCampaigning Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:10:38 +0000 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/how-well-networked-are-political-campaign-blogs/#comment-193159 [...] BlogCampaigning Public Relations, Political Campaigns, Technology, Social Media, Web 2.0: A blog analysis « Blog Campaigning: 6. Conclusion Blog Campaigning: 5.3 How can we measure the impact of blogs? June 4th, 2007 5.3 How can we measure the impact of blogs? During the period that the research took place, few bloggers, online communication experts or political commentators explicitly discussed technical aspects regarding how we actually can measure the impact of campaign blogs on political elections. The only reflection that explicitly dealt with this subject was produced by Todd Zeigler, Senior Vice President of the Bivings Group, on the company’s blog, The Bivings Report. Discussing the performances of the 2006 contestants’ official campaign blogs, Zeigler (2006b) raised the following question: “How influential/successful are the campaign blogs?”. [...] [...] BlogCampaigning Public Relations, Political Campaigns, Technology, Social Media, Web 2.0: A blog analysis « Blog Campaigning: 6. Conclusion Blog Campaigning: 5.3 How can we measure the impact of blogs? June 4th, 2007 5.3 How can we measure the impact of blogs? During the period that the research took place, few bloggers, online communication experts or political commentators explicitly discussed technical aspects regarding how we actually can measure the impact of campaign blogs on political elections. The only reflection that explicitly dealt with this subject was produced by Todd Zeigler, Senior Vice President of the Bivings Group, on the company’s blog, The Bivings Report. Discussing the performances of the 2006 contestants’ official campaign blogs, Zeigler (2006b) raised the following question: “How influential/successful are the campaign blogs?”. [...]

]]> http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/how-well-networked-are-political-campaign-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-3283 Todd Zeigler Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:16:02 +0000 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/how-well-networked-are-political-campaign-blogs/#comment-3283 Pete - I agree.  Technorati ranking is sort of a blunt instrument for measuring the true readership of these blogs. Pete – I agree.  Technorati ranking is sort of a blunt instrument for measuring the true readership of these blogs.

]]> http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/how-well-networked-are-political-campaign-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-3282 Pete Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:35:46 +0000 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/how-well-networked-are-political-campaign-blogs/#comment-3282 This is an interesting idea, and a subject worthy of exploration, but Technorati searches aren't really the best approach to understanding a site's presence within the political blogosphere. There are any number of reasons for this, but chief among them is that Technorati isn't comprehensive or transparent enough to give an empirically-sound snapshot of blog activity.A better approach might be to build a crawler to collect a multi-tiered snowball sample of hyperlinks from a set of political blogs (national and / or state level, depending on the race) for a given period of time and conduct social network analysis on the resulting data set. You won't get a comprehensive snapshot of all possible links, but if choose the appropriate sites to seed your networks you should get something useful. This is an interesting idea, and a subject worthy of exploration, but Technorati searches aren’t really the best approach to understanding a site’s presence within the political blogosphere. There are any number of reasons for this, but chief among them is that Technorati isn’t comprehensive or transparent enough to give an empirically-sound snapshot of blog activity.A better approach might be to build a crawler to collect a multi-tiered snowball sample of hyperlinks from a set of political blogs (national and / or state level, depending on the race) for a given period of time and conduct social network analysis on the resulting data set. You won’t get a comprehensive snapshot of all possible links, but if choose the appropriate sites to seed your networks you should get something useful.

]]> http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/how-well-networked-are-political-campaign-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-2587 latetotheparty Tue, 08 Aug 2006 02:12:39 +0000 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/how-well-networked-are-political-campaign-blogs/#comment-2587 [...] Bivings rated this aspect of site relevance. [...] [...] Bivings rated this aspect of site relevance. [...]

]]> http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/how-well-networked-are-political-campaign-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-2568 Which Senate Candidate Has the Best Blog? » The Bivings Report Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:46:43 +0000 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/how-well-networked-are-political-campaign-blogs/#comment-2568 [...] In my last post I took a look at which Senate campaign blogs were linked to the most often by bloggers.  Following are the top 5 in terms of links: [...] [...] In my last post I took a look at which Senate campaign blogs were linked to the most often by bloggers.  Following are the top 5 in terms of links: [...]

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