L et’s face it, the Obama Presidential campaign was one of the most successful social media marketing efforts in the history of the internet. can count on my fingers the number of major US companies that understand new media the way the Obama campaign did. (Incidentally, Incidentally, how long do you think it will take Firefox to put “Obama” in their spell-check dictionary?) I This is really not that surprising, given the involvement of people like Chris Hughes , one of the founding fathers of Facebook, as Obama’s online organizing coordinator.

Barack Obama tells a story. It's told in the first person, Obama (our narrator) is a character in the story. It's also quite a long story (8 mins approx) and it takes place near the end of Obama's speech after he's built up some rapport with the audience. Obama has obviously spent some time in Church. Shawn played a similar video to this at a conference I was at in Melbourne about a month ago. The story he tells is very well known in the US but comparatively unseen here in Australia.

In a similar way the same can be said about Obama and how he used internet to organize volunteers, raise funds, and communicate with voters to gain an edge in the campaign. The use of new social networking software gave so great results to President Obama and his advisers that they are going to continue to use them from the oval office. Every morning, Obama will receive a briefing from the ideas and Last presidential campaign, as you heard a thousand times, was historic in many fronts. In terms of the use of technology was historic too.

It wasn’t traditional media in the US that put Barack Obama in office, if I’m not mistaken: Obama said he noted the trend. “I Maybe it has to do with the fact that bloggers are starting to take on the role that journalists also do, which is undercover investigations – and it didn’t go well for Obama: He should stick to politics – how quickly they forget! Mr.

five "Presidential Actions" went into force (see White House press statement ), establishing a clear foundation of organizing values and principles for the new Obama Administration. BARACK OBAMA [Your name here] ...Tags: Tags: Transition Obama Transparency Government Leadership Economy Networks and Networking Collaboratio At the stroke of midnight on January 21, 2009. The "Midnight Five," with their links, are: Presidential Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government Presidential Memorandum on Freedom of Information Act

The Washington Post asks how Obama can transform his net-based electoral strength, into a policy and advocacy tool that will strengthen his presidency? ( But Peter Greenberger, manager of political advertising for Google, said such information could be a boon for Obama in building public support for policy proposals. Obama could use Internet ads to solicit signatures for petitions, or he could place display and here are also a number of videos on the topic ) An interesting passage: “In past years, such lists were considered useful tools for political campaigns

Masterly interview of Noam Chomsky by Le Monde, with French subtitles: Noam Chomsky, regard critique sur l’Amérique by lemondefr ...Tags: Tags: P2P Politics Vide

Last week at the InterAction Forum I had the pleasure of hearing Sam Graham-Felson , former director of blogging for the Obama Campaign talk about their strategy and success.  They helped explain Obama's 10 major policy positions by breaking them into Blueprint for Change videos on each one.  Admittedly, what made the Obama campaign so so successful was what many organizations don?t Lots of what Sam talked about can be translated into useful tactics for small and large organizations who are building communities of people who care about their issues. First, let me say

Arianna Huffington: “A series of recent meetings with members of Barack Obama’s economic team (including running into Larry Summers on my way to an appointment in the West Wing, leading to a spirited back-and-forth that made me feel like I was back at Cambridge, debating the smartest kid in the class), left me with a pair of indelible impressions: Just as Ptolemy was convinced we live in a geocentric universe — and made the math work to “prove” his flawed theories — Obama’s senior economic team is convinced we live in a bank-centric universe,

have followed the campaigns of Obama and McCain filtered through the Dutch news. But it's a nice opportunity to find out more about how Obama leveraged the social media- I have heard it was a great campaign and his team made good use of the media in general and social media in particular. I'm a fan of Obama (like 90% of the Dutch I believe!), The netsquared thinktank question is this time: ' What was the best example or lesson learned about leveraging social media from the political campaigns this year?' At first, I didn't feel like responding. I