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Social Scorecard: How the Presidential Candidates Stack Up

May 9, 2012 by Eric Harr
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FOUR YEARS AGO, the Washington Post dubbed Barack Obama the “King of Social Media.” It was a fitting sobriquet. After all, Obama used the untested new medium to flat-out out-fox and out-run the most well-oiled, well-entrenched political machine of our time in the Clintons. But Obama’s secrets are no longer. The GOP is poised to pounce and will likely use everything they learned, with a potent mix of new tactics, to rocket Romney to victory in November. [read more]

Spying For Security? A Closer Look at #CISPA, "Big Brother" of #SOPA

April 27, 2012 by Tammy Kahn Fennell
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[Editor's Note - CISPA was passed by the House] "We must be allowed to spy on Facebook and Twitter..." In the UK, Sir David Omand, former Permanent Secretary and Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator in the Cabinet Office, says criminals are increasingly making use of online social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to communicate. Meanwhile in the US, debates around CISPA are heating up... [read more]

Why the Political Parties Have No Social Media Policy?

December 26, 2011 by Mic Adam
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2012 is an election year. This is not only the case in the US, but also in many other countries including my own, Belgium. There will local elections and union elections this year. But I am looking forward, with a lot of anticipation, to how US politics will be using Social Media to rally to victory. Four years ago, Team Obama surprised everybody, but this year, many politicians and candidates will be fighting back and use the same weapons. What I can not stop wondering about is whether the Democratic or Republican party has a Social Media Policy. I do not think so and in all honesty I am not sure they can make one that sticks. [read more]

Social Media and Politics: for Good, or Just a Fad?

July 26, 2011 by Michael Laskey
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"Condensing answers on topics like the economy and the war in Afghanistan into 140 character snippets also runs the risk of trivialising serious political stories. Of course on the other hand, the debate provided a way for voters at home to interact directly with politicians in an unprecedented way, and the trending of the process raised awareness of the race for the Republican nomination and those involved it." [read more]

Twitter Town Hall Cynicism is Misplaced

July 12, 2011 by Shel Holtz
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"In the many face-to-face town hall meeetings held to date, only the lucky few who scored tickets and passed screenings were able to get into the auditorium where they had a shot at having a question answered. Turning to YouTube and Twitter simply opens the door to anybody who wants query his or her leader. Shrugging that off as a stunt is like making fun of someone who uses a computer for word processing, which improves the process of typing. " [read more]

Obama 2008: Using Agile + Lean Marketing to Elect a New President

June 20, 2011 by Rohn Jay Miller
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"I was blown away. Looking back, what I think we were doing is a lot like Agile management. What time we spent organizing was done in a Scrum zero meeting, getting alignment and empowering each team member. Everyone walked out of the meeting as I like to say, 'highly aligned and loosely coupled.' Like a Lean start-up, we had just followed the rule, 'Nail it, then scale it.' " [read more]

Is Social Media Destroying Obama's Approval Rating

January 26, 2010 by ChrisTurnquist
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Are the same technologies that were skillfully used to crush his opponents during the 2008 presidential campaigns going to aid in destroying the President's approval rating? Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama utilized various social media platforms to establish a grassroots movement that revolutionized presidential... [read more]

Haiti...Turning Internet & Mobile Giving Into Investment

January 17, 2010 by John Bell
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President Obama called the $100m of US aid to Haiti an "investment." I like that. News stories report on the incredible amount of donation and word of mouth in support of the people of Haiti via mobile ($3m to Red Cross via texting) and Twitter The CTIA advertised an offer for free texting... [read more]

Can eMail Marketing Save Us?

May 28, 2009 by Tom Martin
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Did you know that President Obama has 13 million permission based email addresses? Of course you do. It was one of the smart moves he made that helped him win the election. Did you know he still emails that list — quite often? In fact, he's been quoted as saying the email list will be part of the “permanent campaign”... [read more]

Obama's Not the Only One Who Gets Social Media

February 2, 2009 by Robin Carey
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Last week I interviewed Heather Lauer who is in charge of online strategy for the Pickens Plan, a grass-roots effort to support legendary oil-man-turned-energy-independence champion T. Boone Pickens' strategy for reducing the country's dependence on foreign sources of energy.  I've been fascinated by this campaign since it launched... [read more]

Legislation Made Available for Comment on White House Web Site

February 2, 2009 by EthanKlapper
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(Originally posted to Social Government)It finally looks like the Obama Administration has made good on a campaign promise: allowing for public comment on non-emergency pieces of legislation before the president signs them. While the public was overlooked last week when President Obama signed the S. 181 -- the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay... [read more]

Social media and the government in an Obama administration

January 20, 2009 by Martin Edic
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Wired has a great article on the current state of the US government's use of both traditional sites (there are 24,000!) and social media and how President Obama's administration will affect the future use by the Feds.There are things they can't do by law:“No We Can'tBarack Obama wants to transform the way the White House connects... [read more]

I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this message…

January 20, 2009 by william ory
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L'élection de Barack Obama à la Présidence des Etats-Unis est un fait historique, c'est indéniable. Aujourd'hui, la cérémonie d'investiture est donc un évènement national et international (+2 millions de personnes sont attendues à Washington), les moyens mis en Å“uvre sont consid... [read more]

Barack Obama: Inauguration Day

January 20, 2009 by Joyce Dierschke
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It is a big day for the United States. It is a big day for the whole world. I'm glad that the theme of this new administration is “hope”. We have a lot to hope for, a lot to improve about our country and our individual lives. The last six months have been tumultuous to say the least. I don't know anyone who has not been... [read more]

Obama ouvre la voie du gouvernement 2.0

January 19, 2009 by Michelle Blanc
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Alors qu'ici, nos partis politiques se demandent encore si ça vaut la peine d'être en ligne convenablement entre les élections, demain, le premier président américain valorisant le dialogue Web avec le peuple prendra le pouvoir. Dans l'article Le «cyberprésident» débarque sur la... [read more]

The ultimate co-creation opportunity: our world

January 18, 2009 by Filiberto Selvas
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Maybe I am taking it a little far, but I do think is within reason to believe that the United Stated is one of the most influential countries in the world; having, as citizens, the opportunity to co-create what this country will become through the Citizens Briefing Book site could mean that we as individuals have a chance to co-create... [read more]

Starbucks-meets-Obama-meets-Digg: crowdsourcing democracy

January 17, 2009 by Angelo Fernando
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The president elect is taking a leaf off the social media marketing book to gather ideas from citizens. Starbucks‘ MyStarbucksIdea has been around for several months, basically asking people to “Help shape the future of Starbucks.” Now the Obama people have launched the Citizen's Briefing Book —part of Change.... [read more]

McCain VS Obama : l'analogist face au digital native…

September 23, 2008 by Emilie Ogez
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On sait que Barack Obama est très présent sur la toile. C'est loin d'être le cas pour le candidat McCain. Il se présente d'ailleurs en tant “Analog Candidate”. Alors, est-ce si nécessaire pour gagner les élections présidentielles ? Le New-York Times explore la question. R... [read more]

Presidential Politics and Online Branding

August 12, 2008 by Jesse Greenberg
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I recently received an email from Sen. John McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis asking me check out the new McCain campaign video, "Fan Club."  This 30-second spot mocks Sen. Barack Obama's status as celebrity while sarcastically asking you to support  Obama's positions that  would increase taxes and placing your faith... [read more]

Testing the Wisdom of Crowds

October 20, 2007 by Rod Boothby
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Intrade is prediction market. People buy and sell contracts based on outcomes. If you own one of the 2008.Pres.Clinton(H) contracts and Hillary Clinton does become President, you get $10. Right now, that contract will cost you about $4.85. That's more than a 100% return in just over 1 year. Not bad. Google (GOOG ) would have to be... [read more]

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