That went well: WKC on DKos
Submitted by CalifSherry on February 12, 2007 - 7:39pm.
Netroots
As of 3:30pm pst, General Clark's Dkos diary has been up for about 6 hours and holds the #2 - of 8 - recommended slot. There are 693 comments - 14 from General - and the conversation is still active. Many of the comments are substantive. The #3 diary by John Conyers has 199 comments. If anyone reading this can reach Gen. Clark and if he has online capability, a comment on Conyer's diary would be well received.
Since, for purposes of keeping this Clark Diary "above the fold," the value of recommendations decays, I'll hold off with mine until it slips down to the 6th slot on the reocmmended list. It's now 6:30pm on the east coast and so another wave of folks are just getting to it. If the diary is still there by morning, this diary will have the opportunity to reach a huge segment of the 100,000+ Dkos users.
Tomorrow, we can check jotters statistics under the title "High Impact Diaries." For the moment though, this exercise seems to be going very well. Can anyone give us info on new sign-ups to Securing America?
Yes, I would call that a success. ;-)
Thank you, Early Bird, for the encouragement. Whether it's with a campaign for a Clark candidacy or supporting his efforts on behalf of the country (including other candidates), I respect the General's leadership and would very much like to be helpful. (I've been a state level campaign scheduler too, hint, hint.)
Jotter has posted High Impact Diaries - February 12, 2007. Disclaimer: I am not a statistician, nor do I play one on the internet. For the straight scoop, I recommend reading jotter's diary, along with the embedded links. Still, here are some highlights and a comparison. It's a start.
1. General Clark posted one of the 269 diaries published yesterday on Daily Kos.
2. 2833 people recommended and 7786 people viewed various of those 269 diaries.
3. With 889 recommendations, Is War with Iran Inevitable? received the greatest number of recommendations for the day. The next most recommended diary received 467.
4. 352 users contributed 823 comments to his diary.
5. 1066 = the number of unduplicated commenters and recommenders. Think of this as "eyes on the prize." Maybe not as many as Fox News, but still an important audience.
6. Impact: "uses numbers which most clearly demonstrate approval (recommendations) and interest (connections) without over emphasizing individual intensity." For the seriously mathematically inclined: "The formula for impact is as follows, where cnx will be the abbreviation for the union set of recommenders and commenters and the average for nrec and cnx in the standard set is given to 5 digits.
impact = sqrt( ( (nrec/78.927)^2 ) + ( (cnx/136.38)^2 ) / 2.0
Impact for this diary is 9.69. (Second highest impact for the day was 5.04) Jotter displays diaries with impact figures >.15, but I'm still trying to figure out if there is an upper limit for impact.
As it happens, just the day before, Mike Stark published "Something is Wrong in Gore-ville," and explicitly called on the Kos community to break records in the recommend and comment departments - and to link to a specific pro-Gore site, register and make a symbolic donation. This social network is nothing if not responsive:
1. Mike Stark posted one of the 234 diaries published for the day.
2. 2425 people recommended and 6512 people viewed various of those 234 diaries. (Fewer on the 11th than yesterday, the 12th.)
3. With 854 recommendations, Something is Wrong in Gore-ville received the greatest number of recommendations for the day. The next most recommended diary received 338.
4. 182 users contributed 428 comments.
5. 951 = the number of unduplicated commenters and recommenders.
6. Impact = 18.21
OK, partisans, nothing to be upset about here. Although it's clearly possible to have a greater impact than 10, and I'm going to ask Jotter about the upper limits and distribution of "impact:" there are other considerations.
What might we learn by comparing the numbers from the response to Wes Clark's first DKos diary and diaries of other public figures? I'm thinking John Conyers, Jennifer Granholm and Lynn Woolsey.
What about form. This diary was more of an editorial, combined with Q&A: excluding something that came up in comments, there was no clear call to action. How would a call to action be met?
Standing. Speculation aside, Clark is neither an elected nor a candidate. How might a call for action be met if he was one? Or if he decided to forego a run for the White House (shsss - it'll be alright) and instead campaigns for as many candidates for the Congress as he did in 2006. If he asked for our help with that effort - identifying ourselves as "his" troops - what might the response be?
I'm going to post this and go onto other things. I'll be back in touch when I've something more to contribute.
Note re netroots (reality based community) organizing:
Today, February 13, 2007 11:46:15 AM PST, I received an email from WesPac, containing the text of Gen. Clark's Dkos diary, with links, and an invitation to participate. Which, had it been sent yesterday, when the recommending window was still open, would have been much more effective. With a little timing improvement, the bump from that email could have greatly increased the numbers of people who read the diary.
Next time.
you've got your dkos strategy all together;looks like you should help securingamerica.com and CCN-ers plan their internet- ing :-) thank you for being on top of dkos - CCN monitoring -- it is a great diary I'd like to see everyone with email LOL take the URL and excerpts or all 14 Wes comments and make it a mailing to friends family and SEND to their local left radio hosts; LTE; op-eds and so forth