Elections

At the moment there are elections in Holland. Everyday the politicians are on television and on the radio. Because I was curious if the use new media, I started a research. I found out that the are pretty conservative in the way the use internet and social media. Look at the website of PVV: http://pvv.nl/ boring!

Also the website of the PvdA is very boring. http://nu.pvda.nl/ also, no links to social media. Not smart.

I don’t understand why the political parties don’t spend more time on cool websites and social media. I think that they can win votes with a good website that is adapted to different target groups. Why don’t they create a site for older and younger people?

Especially after the things I’ve learned in the course: ‘design of business communication’ I can say that the websites have bad designs. Too much text, bad lay out. I think this is one of the reasons why the political parties have problems with reaching the youth.

Another thing I do not understand is that we still have to go to certain places to vote. Why can’t we use our Digid? That would be perfect! I think it is real old fashion to go and stand in line to vote. Don’t forget this line: within 8 years we can vote online. Trust me.