Let me guess: someone made Pat Powers webmaster?
A couple weeks ago, Republican blogger Pat Powers snarked on the South Dakota Democratic Party for not being sufficiently active on their official website.
The proper response from Democrats this evening is, "At least we Democrats have a website."
Cue Tony Post cocking an eyebrow over his Starbucks. Cue fingers flicking across keys. Cue simultaneous creamy brown splash on screen and cell phone ringing.
Try punching in the South Dakota Republican Party's last known online address, southdakotagop.com. As I post at 17:45 MST, here's what you get:
Oops. That's not right. All those nice links we had to the SDGOP's platform and staff and contact info—poof! up for bid on NameJet.com.
Maybe Pat Powers is just spoofing us all again. Or maybe new SDGOP chair and infamous adman Craig Lawrence decided to go bid up Bob Newland or joker Derek Cecil to get the party's hands on the snappier sdgop.com. Or maybe the GOP got sick of Stace Nelson and other Mugwumps crawling all over their platform online and decided to direct all platform inquiries in person to Russ Olson, who will mutter something about jobs and corporate welfare.
But as of this moment, southdakotagop.com is on the market, and the South Dakota Republican Party has no Googlable online home.
Oh dear God, please someone buy that who has a sharp sense of humor and a little mischief inside!
Must be getting ready to launch something new...
I wonder if Lawrence and Shiller are doing the work or if they are sticking with Click Rain?
I'm surprised they wouldn't keep the old site active through the new site's launch, forward all hits to the new domain. Leaving themselves without normal Web presence suggests that the website wasn't adding much value.
Hmm... no tweets since the 15th, either, and nothing happening on their Facebook page. Must be some serious social media retooling going on.
Last week the state party mentioned routine updates and strategic deployment of some of Craig’s cool ideas.
I'm eager to see those "cool ideas." But I'm curious: did "routine updates" include surrendering your domain and making the SDGOP's web presence disappear for an unspecified number of days? I'm just lowly amateur blogger, not a professional marketer like your new chair, but when I upgraded and migrated to my new domain, I kept my old blog site active until I was sure the new site worked. Then I kept the old site to direct visitors to the new site. Was the old SDGOP website getting so little traffic that taking it offline wasn't a problem?
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Good points Cory. If Post didn't hang on to the web domain then that was a bad move. Hopefully he has something else up his sleeve.
SDGOP is a bowl of cold oatmeal: even PP's multiple personalities are chewing his fingernails. twitter people: go find their hashtags and troll their accounts so anonymous can hack them.
cue: grudz.