Maori Party Graphics

I blogged yesterday, asking who let the Maori Party loose in the clipart folder. I retweeted the link this morning for those who missed it yesterday. I got the following reply from Ngarangi Chapman:

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Which may be true, but if you are trying to build and maintain a brand, something that is recognisable, you should try and maintain the quality. But today they have come out with the following graphic:

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Which is back to the sort of level that they have been producing in recent weeks. So it isn’t like they are unable to produce high quality graphics. As an observer, consistently bad graphics gives a message of “we don’t care”, which I don’t like, but it simply gives a message about that. Where as up and down graphic quality presents an image of bigger issues than having consistently bad graphics. Up and down graphics quality  raises other issues, it suggests internal issues, either with time, time management or other resources, like money. Once a party lifts the bar to a certain point, that no longer becomes a target, but a minimum level.

Twitter Stats 13 September

 

Most Tweets by an MP:

National: Tau Henare 428, Nikki Kaye 45, Paul Foster Bell 30.

Labour: Clare Curran 244, Trevor Mallard 156, Ruth Dyson 79.

Greens: Metiria Turei 413, Julie Anne Genter 203, Gareth Hughes 201.

NZF: Tracey Martin 104, Asenati Lole-Taylor 29, Winston Peters 104.

Others: Peter Dunne 96, Te Ururoa Flavell 75, Brendan Horan 2.

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Internet Party and policy questions

So in the last week I have conducted two experiments, here and here to see how parties respond to policy questions. Both times I included the Internet Party, and both times they failed to reply. In the second blog post I mentioned I wasn’t sure if the lack of reply was only because it was me asking, as opposed to a random Twitter user. So I was interested to watch when someone I follow on Twitter asked a policy question of the Internet Party:

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