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By: FreshNetworks Blog » Blog Archive » Turkey texts - social media makes advice lines more useful

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:26:14 +0000

[...] on our screens and the potential Obama administration that comes into power next year. But with Obama’s use of social media (stories of him abandoning his BlackBerry aside) I would imagine he wouldn’t be calling for a [...]

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Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:28:38 +0000

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More Than Marketing - Social media and the Obama administration — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:33:29 +0000

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By: louiscrusoe

louiscrusoe — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:30:02 +0000

I’d say that the higher penetration of social networking / web 2.0 in Britain (most online in Europe) would make us even better candidates for greater engagement and participation. The UK government already does a lot of this stuff (see the work of the participation unit), and organisations such as the JRF and the Work Foundation have looked into it, but it still feels that an Obama-esque campaign could see it really take off here. Neither Brown nor ‘just call me Dave’ have the same appeal as Barack, but as in other spheres (private consumers), governance and politics could really do better at efficiently delivering what individuals actually want.

By: John McCain On Best Political Blogs » Blog Archive » Will social media be used as well once the election’s over?

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:06:03 +0000

[...] Will social media be used as well once the election’s over? I know that polls can be inaccurate – they are biased towards people with a fixed-line telephone (rather than just a mobile phone or no phone at all), they suffer from people projecting the response they think the interviewer wants to hear (they may not admit that they wouldn’t vote for a black man), and we know that how you ask the question can vary the response you get. However, most polls seem to agree about the outcome of today’s US Presidential Election. From CNN to Bebo and even a poll of [...]