Questions for Campaign Staff ? Role of the Network ?

Network Questions for RootsCampers:

1. What role did social ties play in your campaign? Did information, strategy or advise from friends alter your strategy? How much did you trust people working in the same region as you (did you know and trust the people in the 527, democratic coordinated efforts, or other similar BUT uncoordinated efforts?) Did you develop "social relations or trust" with loggers or other content providers who you never really worked with in face to face contexts?

2. How did you stay in sync with the common story of the election? How did you track the story "landscape"? Did you read CAP? Democracy Corps? or other shared political and message framing content and publications? Did you look at thee for framing talking points and other appeals? How many other candidates email lists were you subscribed to? Did you read any blogs that helped shape message or story? How did you try to build off messages in the wild and connect them to you campaign(Foley, Iraq, Scandals, etc) ?

3. How healthy was your communications grid to people outside the campaign? What email lists were you on? Who's polling infraction idid you get copies of? Where you on IM and Skype with folks from across the movement? Did that help you stay in touch with trends, braking stories, opposition tactics? Internally in the campaign how well did different offices coordinate?

4. How much were you willing to work with information and resources that were "not yours" did you use shared resources? Did you post YouTube clips on your site? Did you work with open source software? Did you access data warehouse materials? Did you use Flickr? Did you clip and run with talking points or research findings from others? Did you use googlemaps? Did you use yahoo groups or meetup? Did you rely on other people's pools of volunteers? or volunteer coordination from outside groups? Did you pass on others flash ads? or voter information? What shared resources of the movement were useful?

5. Clarity of Purpose? Did leaders form within you ranks and network help you define positions? Where there campaigns or efforts that were clearly self-organized by network leaders? Where these useful? Where they a distraction? Did you assign people to manage and lead networks or participate in online forums and high traffic sites on your campaigns teams response?