For the cool price of $109, plus hotel fees ranging around $150 a night, bloggers from across Virginia can travel on their own nickel to Hot Springs and learn how to blog!
“New Media: Blogging, E Campaigns, Websites” is the name of a workshop scheduled at this year’s RPV advance. So far, I don’t know of any Virginia bloggers asked to be on the panel. Maybe they’ll tout their huge new media successes like this or this (those are the blogs that double their hits by refreshing the screen).
Some workshops may be canceled to make room for a huge Q & A session on the future of the GOP. (wonder what they’ll do with the workshop called “Growing your Unit”?).
But I’m curious who they’ve planned on teaching us about New Media, and what state they are hoping will tell us how it’s done. Virginians like JR, John Henke, Shaun Kenney, Jim Riley, Lynn Mitchell or Chris Green – and a host of others – don’t seem to have made the cut.
I hope they all can attend the advance to learn how to do this the RPV way.
The smart way to do a workshop about new media would be to comp Virginia Republican bloggers to attend and make it very easy for them to post all about the Advance, leading up to and during the event. Lord knows the mainstream media won’t do it, except to attack us.
We all have so much to learn, I guess.
The right wants to jeer him. The left wants to censor him. Moderates usually want both. Brian Kirwin is a political consultant and public relations strategist in Virginia Beach with a lightning-rod flair. Brian also serves on the VB Arts & Humanities Commission and frequently appears on Hampton Roads theatrical stages, if only to prove that all actors aren’t liberals. Kirwin’s columns stir up debate and hit the political scene with no punches pulled. 
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Another example of how our State Party Chairmam is an expert on everything! If you don’t believe me just ask him.
I think they are going to invite folks like Eileen Levandowski and Vivian Paige to teach the GOP bloggers how to actually WIN elections …. that’s why none of the GOP-leaning bloggers have been invited to teach.
How’d that VBTA slate do, Reid?
Brian,
I agree they should have asked some Virginia Bloggers to be a part of the panel, but it sounds like you are just trying to get a free trip to the Homestead.
This is a rather huge expense for the Party every year and they do need to try and make some money if we are to regain anything.
So, stop whining and make your reservation.
BTW, I thought this was a Republican leaning blog–what in the world is Jody Wagner’s ad doing on here. I bet Bill Bolling loves that–you guys will sell to anybody, huh?
Just my thoughts.
That’s a google ad. We can’t control who pays Google.
And, no, I can well afford a trip to the advance. What I need is a reason to go.
Ok Brian,
Fair enough–I don’t pretend to be any sort of tech genious, but I had the understanding that you could tell google ads which ads not to display.
If not, my apologies, but if you can, I would try to get that off of there as soon as possible!
Yes…it can be blocked. But it also is a popular ad that generates revenue…for me. I am a capitalist, after all.
We had a Bolling ad up through Election Day always on display. I am sure the campaign will be interested in continuing that ad.
I must say that I find this particularly ironic.
Yep.
Good questions, Brian, and thanks for the mention. My laptop and I will be at the RPV Advance blogging just as I have the past two years. I commented about this subject on my blog and linked to you.
Brian:
Appreciate the mention, but you know, us folks in the valley are always taken for granted to leave the plow, and show up at…. the…..polls… errr. Homestead.
I think a good strategery would be to offer Republicans really, really, top shelf Bourbon, Cigars, a chance to round table with Sarah Palin to get briefed on why we should be drilling in ANWR, and off Shore in VA…. and a pep talk on yes, if Bill and Hillary can screw it up….. Wait till Obama and company gets to town….
Later we can have a session on what kind of scandal will Tribbett try to trump up (carding any and all who dare to imbibe), and exactly why, we can hardly give a rip, nor want to visualize what actually goes on at a DemocRAT/ic… get together. If you know what I mean.
After this last election, I think we could all use a drink, and a laugh… and some thing to look forward too.
I was 5-0 with clients this year. I don’t know what all this talk about losing elections is about.
Brian,
Good for you, I wonder what Marty Williams thinks of your expertise. You went 5-0 in a non-partisan race, whoop dee friggin doo. If you were that good you wouldn’t still be in the Beach running city council races, you would be based out of Richmond running big time races like Boyd Marcus. Maybe if you weren’t too busy pretending to be an actor you can actually win a race that matters and you can finally afford to get a haircut.
The first thing they need to learn is to quit slinking off to that hillbilly hideaway. The huddled masses are getting tired of a new set of Commandments every few months. The next lesson is.. ah h3ll, they don’t listen to anyone’s advice, so why bother.
The last thing they should be doing is teaching anyone how to blog. It makes them look incredibly stupid, given their success in elections.
Someone hiding behind a fake name calls someone an actor….oh, the irony. But thanks for following my life so closely, GOP. It’s nice to have a groupie.
“you would be based out of Richmond running big time races like Boyd Marcus”
Darrell… you mean like the shalacking that Governor Gilmore just took? Boyd ran a good convention against a fellow Republican, and then led a Good Governor to run away from his own Signature Legislation; and allowed the Urban Myth that Senator Elect Warner was a ‘Good Governor’…. morph into Good Senator… He going to vote the same way he led as Governor. HIgher taxes, Hillary Care for the masses, and on top of it all undermine our Right to Work Laws….
Warner is and was nothing more than a Liberal hiding behind the MSM lackeys, and some ‘pridebound’ tax raising Republicans, who never would have been in the majority with out Gilmore’s Car Tax Relief Program.
Virginians overwhelming embraced the Allen Gilmore years of smaller government, and lower taxes…. Chichester and Potts, et al destroyed that for their own gain… and adoration of the same media…
Hey guys, guess where that gets you…. does the name Senator John McCain ring any bells? Chichester could run against and Democrat for Governor and watch the knives come out for their ‘old buddy’ Chichester.
That is what Republicans don’t understand…. Actually that would be an interesting post… Feel free to discuss…
sorry for the two small grammatical errors (Warner) He’s going to vote…
and ‘any Democrat for Governor.
Will you guys please put in a preview frame? Ya’ll have one when you are building comments, I would suppose.
btw, I do like the new site… keep up the good work.