Comments on: The Election and Social Media: The Difference in ‘08 http://techprgems.com/2008/10/election-social-media-the-difference-in-08/ Conversations about PR, social media, technology and marketing -- with a special focus on the social media community in Greater Boston Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:44:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Katelyn http://techprgems.com/2008/10/election-social-media-the-difference-in-08/comment-page-1/#comment-1123 Katelyn Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:50:18 +0000 http://techprgems.com/?p=1072#comment-1123 Hi Adam, Thanks for all the information! I'm looking into http://www.SoMeElection08.ning.com and will let you know if I post it. Thanks again! Kate Hi Adam,
Thanks for all the information!
I’m looking into http://www.SoMeElection08.ning.com and will let you know if I post it.

Thanks again!
Kate

]]> By: nick http://techprgems.com/2008/10/election-social-media-the-difference-in-08/comment-page-1/#comment-1118 nick Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:37:21 +0000 http://techprgems.com/?p=1072#comment-1118 Election and economic is a big issue along 2008. Election and economic is a big issue along 2008.

]]> By: Adam Zand http://techprgems.com/2008/10/election-social-media-the-difference-in-08/comment-page-1/#comment-1116 Adam Zand Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:28:43 +0000 http://techprgems.com/?p=1072#comment-1116 Hi Katelyn, My.BarackObama.com is going to be the case study of this election (well at least until 2012 when all of our current social media election initiatives look quaint). Online fund-raising has been done very well for a while (McCain used it effectively in 2000 and Howard Dean built communities of giving). The revolution this time might be where http://my.barackobama.com/N2N supplies all the canvassing (convincing) tools like neighborhood voter details, leaflets, phone scripts as self-service applications. Amazingly, this has the potential of moving the political Web from participatory to actually changing votes. Heck, they even have a catchy YouTube post on the ease and fun of N2N: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2b1BFyLH3k. Twister for Obama! By the way, I found election.twitter.com to be almost useless during the Debates. Just too much grandstanding and almost no conversations happening. One tip: you can pause the Tweet stream with a well placed cursor. Lastly since we've been BFF since Todd's party, would you please join and then post great content like this at http://www.SoMeElection08.ning.com? Vote Pedro, Adam Hi Katelyn,
My.BarackObama.com is going to be the case study of this election (well at least until 2012 when all of our current social media election initiatives look quaint).

Online fund-raising has been done very well for a while (McCain used it effectively in 2000 and Howard Dean built communities of giving). The revolution this time might be where http://my.barackobama.com/N2N supplies all the canvassing (convincing) tools like neighborhood voter details, leaflets, phone scripts as self-service applications. Amazingly, this has the potential of moving the political Web from participatory to actually changing votes.

Heck, they even have a catchy YouTube post on the ease and fun of N2N: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2b1BFyLH3k. Twister for Obama!

By the way, I found election.twitter.com to be almost useless during the Debates. Just too much grandstanding and almost no conversations happening. One tip: you can pause the Tweet stream with a well placed cursor.

Lastly since we’ve been BFF since Todd’s party, would you please join and then post great content like this at http://www.SoMeElection08.ning.com?

Vote Pedro, Adam

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