Posts Tagged with ‘barack-obama’

We are having more news proving how fond the president-elect Barack Obama is of the internet and the latest and greatest communication tools it has to offer. After all, it was online where he won the presidential race, as many people believe - so I am not surprised watching him paying continuous attention to the web population.
Today’s news is that traditional radio address will be online in addition to radio distribution and available on YouTube for everyone to view - [...]

For the first time in the nation’s history, the US will have a CTO in Obama’s administration - a person in charge of the overall technological development of the government and making sure the latest technology standards are met. The idea of introducing this role is quite logical given the fact that Barack Obama expressed his concerns about the technological leadership of the country during the presidential race. Besides, a dedicated person is needed since Obama’s platform has a number [...]

I think it is quite visible that the overall mood online since last night when we got to know that Barack Obama won in the presidential race has been quite positive with most voices cheering the president-elect and expressing hopes for the promised change that he has promised to bring. But it would have been a complete nonsense without loud opponents, of course - and I am sure you have seen plenty of them already in comments on political blogs, [...]

Now that we know that Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States, I think everyone is making their guesses on what we should expect him to do in every field of the politics and economy. And while it is quite easy to promise whatever you want during a presidential race, the presidency itself is usually a little different thing where multiple factors will influence the politics - and those factors will hardly be limited to the [...]

ComScore has just released some interesting statistics on online campaigns performance of Barack Obama and John McCain. The report addresses the first six month of 2008 and takes into account visits to their respective websites, videos viewed, searches for both Barack Obama and John McCain on 5 major US search engines and display advertising efforts of both candidates across the entire web.
The result is predictable: Obama seems to be doing better than McCain in almost all the spheres. But the [...]

There’s an interesting article on Business Week today written by CEO of online reputation management company Rapleaf detailing the history of presidential candidates using various cutting-edge technologies of their respective ages to target voters better - from radio to television and cable ad networks. Now that we live in the 2.0 world there’s definitely tons of new tools to use to reach electorate in a more intimate and human manner - and these tools are heavily used by Barack Obama.
This [...]

Though the 2008 presidential election has already reach historic proportions with both women and minorities being represented in the tight Democratic primary, this election has signified a shift in the way candidates go about fundraising and targeting potential constituents. Many political experts are attributing Barack Obama's achievement of the Democratic nomination to his internet campaign, and believe that Obama's skillful use of social tools, social networks and his own website could be the key to defeating John McCain in [...]

Launched today (officially), News Groper is a collection of 70+ parody blogs written in first-person form with various “newsmakers” as authors. Well, people purporting to be the newsmakers, anyhow.
No, Barack Obama didn’t really write that come-on to YouTube-based Jaimie (read post labeled: “YouTube debates round one: Wolf, I already miss you”). And Katie Couric didn’t really have a fit when speaking of the one who came before (See: “I’d Rather be a tart than unemployed, you stodgy hack”). [...]

United State Presidential contender Senator Barack Obama has been at the forefront of taking the 2008 race Web 2.0, encouraging supporters to join his MyBarackObama.com web community, create their own blogs, add him to their MySpace friends list, and generally take advantage of every and any online community aspect to spread the word to take his campaign to the masses.
As one of the first candidates to really take advantage of every aspect of the Web for his campaign, Obama is also one [...]