Obama: Person of the Year 2008
Time names Obama Person of the Year 2008: Why history can’t wait; http://is.gd/c8ye
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Gerrit Eicker
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Obama: Open for Questions
Open for Questions is part of the Obama team’s effort to make Change.gov an interactive platform; http://is.gd/b9w8
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Obama Announces U.S. Net Offensive
Obama: “It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption”; http://is.gd/av9M
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Joe the Plumber: a New Brand
Wurzelbacher, Joe the Plumber from the presidential debate, co-wrote a book, becomes a media brand; http://is.gd/ak3n
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Change.gov Goes CC BY
Obama‘s Change.gov is now published under the most permissive Creative Commons licence: CC BY; http://is.gd/9Lov
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Change.gov Adds OpenID
Obama‘s Change.gov added the ability for users to log in using an OpenID account; http://is.gd/9b9h
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Hello, Mr. Two-Way President?
TC’s Solis offers some great analysis on Obama‘s campaign and potentially two-way presidency; http://is.gd/7E5Q
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TC: “Barack Obama is already being called the YouTube President because of the 1,800 YouTube videos that help propel him to win the election and have been watched more than 110 million times. So it seems fitting that Obama will continue to use YouTube to get his message out once he takes office. … These ‘fireside chats‘ were started by FDR during the depression as a way to reassure Americans that everything was going to be all right. Now Obama will have some of his own reassuring to do as we grapple with the current economic crisis.”
RWW: “Some people are already saying that posting to YouTube is just the strategy of the week for pandering to young people. They point out that Obama’s account on Twitter, almost the most popular account on the service, has been dead silent since the election ended. … It’s hard to know if the political policies of the next administration will be radically different from the last one, but at the very least the technology of the Presidency should be more contemporary and relevant than has ever been the case before.”
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Obama’s Social Network Power
Andreessen about Obama‘s social network power: “He was clearly supersmart and very entrepreneurial”; http://is.gd/6R6v
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Change.gov
Obama‘s http://Change.gov “provides resources to better understand the transition process“; http://is.gd/6wTH
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BB: “Still wrapping my head around this, but it sure is interesting at first glance – in part because of the speed in which it was launched.”
HP: “President-elect Barack Obama has launched the website change.gov, where one can find news about the transition and inauguration and information about his agenda. The site also has a place for people to share their ideas for government and their stories about the campaign.”
RWW: “The Obama organization continues to turn the political machine on its ear and continues to shake the conventional wisdom of “political strategy.” If change.gov is any indication, the use of social media appears to have been much more than a gimmick for Obama. It appears to have truly been a means of embracing change. – Whatever happens next, it will be incredibly interesting to see how this next act plays out. And what acts – or actions – follow.”
Guardian: “Howard Dean transformed Dean for America into Democracy for America, which helped him win the chairmanship of the Democratic Party. I was left wondering what Obama would do. What was the next step in his digital strategy? We’re getting a sense of what that looks like with Change.gov.“
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Daniel Durazo
When the Federal government uses social media such as change.gov to inform the American people about the important transition process, you know that times have definitely “changed.” And for the better, in my humble opinion. – Best, Daniel Durazo “The Cheapskate’s Guide to PR” http://www.danieldurazo.com
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Gerrit Eicker
Daniel, there might have never been an experiment in politics like this during the last decades.
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A Presidential Commitment to Social Media?
Cahill: “If Obama remains committed to the social web, he’ll turn collective hope into action“; http://is.gd/6xOI
RWW: “Clearly, the President-elect is not shying away from technology, and here at ReadWriteWeb we hope the examples he has set so far continue post Inauguration Day.”