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Thursday, February 19, 2009

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"Political Party LOKSATTA launches an Orkut Application" from "WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India"

Political Party LOKSATTA launches an Orkut Application

Political Parties are finally waking up to concept of Social Media and the Web. Its not just Advani (BJP) or the Congress but AP based Loksatta are the latest ones to jump on the Social Media bandwagon by releasing an application on Orkut.

Created by corners.in, the application is definitely not the best one around. 4 advertising units on the app make you wonder as to what they want to achieve. They have Discussion boards and galleries for photos and videos currently.

This is definitely not the last of the SNS apps that we’ve seen and I’m sure BJP and Congress have Orkut and Facebook in their plans. They should be using the apps to build communication, to know what the people want and to get them to vote! It would be nice to see more politicians like Sanjay Nirupam take up blogging.

The online space in India is where the educated audience can be found, but many of these are too ignorant or too lazy to go out and vote. They’ll be the first to blog about Terrorist attacks and also blame the Government…but they also need to be the first ones to vote. The youth is online, the youth needs to vote and the political parties are realising this too.