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Dialogue Partners - what's the big deal?
People are abuzz about this Our Voice Our Hamilton contract. Does anyone else think this is a tempest in a teapot? Who cares if they asked a question about HSR or pulled some pictures from the Internet for their Pinterest account. The city itself took stock pictures for farmer's market ads last summer.
Two issues I can see: one that a bunch of disgruntled bloggers wish they'd scored a $400,000 contract, and two that the city is spending $400K on a wordpress site, twitter account and Pinterest site. Fair enough on the second, though you don't hear the same people crying every time the city overspends on everything else, but seems to me a lot of people online have a massively enlarged sense of their importance in this city and this is just a battle for online supremacy.
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