Flickring here, Twittering there
The future of campaigning for office in the United States is changing. We all saw it change this fall when both Barack Obama and John McCain ran for president. They both used the internet for their advantages, but it seemed like Obama had a better sense of how to use it, what SNS `s to use, how to put up websites, and put up videos. That definitely helped him in winning because he drew a lot of support form the younger people. This will be the future of campaigning for any candidate for any political seat.
Do you think campaigning through the internet is the future, and how do you see campaigning evolving on the internet?
Obama Uses Text Messaging with an Eye on Nov. 4
At Invesco field in Colorado, around 70,000 people attended the Obama rally, and about half sent a text message that night that allowed the Obama team to get their numbers in order to spread the message of Obama`s campaign in order to get their vote. If they said yes to the message the nthey asked if they wouldsend th same message to their friends so Obama can get their numbers to spread the message even more, and this kept going on and on. This technique is very smart way of garnering support for your campaign and spreading your name around the country.
Do you like this new idea of spreading your name around the country, and what other technique would you use to spread your name through the internet during an election?
How much is Youtube worth to Obama and McCain?
Just by looking at the chart of how many hours Obama and McCain spent on campaigning on Youtube shows why Obama did better in the polls than McCain. Obama really reached out to the online community and the younger people online. McCain did not take advantage of youtube like his counterpart did and that probably hurt him because his message probably didnt get out as much or wasnt heard by as many in the online or younger people.
Do you think Youtube is the first place you would start campaiging if you ran for office, or would you start somewhere else?
Twitter: An Antidote to Election Day Voting Problems?
Twitter might be the answer to the voting problems, but it needs more time develop and more time for the average Joe to become familiar with it. They need to get familiar with it in order to trust it once election time comes around. Also in order to use it we will need Twitter to be able to collect votes and keep its speed up while millions of people try to vote. So the technology will need to improve as the article says. It would save us a lot of hassle with the states that dont have up to date voting technology and hold back votes on election night. For example, Minnesota had a huge problem with votes which was resolved finally and they put the Franken in the office after recounting votes. All of this might be resolved if we could vote over Twitter or some other computer device that can log a vote right away. Maybe it will happen in the future, but we will have to see.
Do you see Twitter as a way to solve all of our voting problems and to make it a more clean process?
The Daily Me
This article shows how general news stations, general newspapers, and any other general channel is slowly going away. We want to personalize everything we see, read, and even eat. If that means only reading sports and business, or just reading the conservative politics, or just reading the weather and food section; we are all changing or personalizing what we want. It is a freedom we have been given, and it makes it more difficult for candidates that we dont like, or papers that we dont like to break our barrier and influence us. The same with our TV, the new TIVO recording system allows us to watch what we want and avoid all other channels or views. This technology helps us to personalize our lives, and makes it hard for outsiders to influence us.
Does personalizing our lives make us have tunnel vision, only seeing the things we want to see?
Web of Activism
Viral Advertising can be an up and coming way of romoting things if more people join in to promote what they want. The tools are out there now for us the average person to make a case by putting a video online to stop a local problem. Like retail companies, we can promote a local school budget increase, a road paving to fix potholes case in order to fix problems we want to be fixed. We can use Youtube, Facebook to send out videos to our local towns people to get supporters. All you need to do is take the initiative and become an activist which is not hard to do this day and age.
Have you ever supported a cause from an online facebook group, joined a campaigners facebook group, or just support a local cause that used online help to promote it?
