The Election On The Web: A Slideshow
This historic U.S. election already fulfilled its promise of change even before the final ballots were cast. Never before had we seen the internet used so heavily in the political campaigning process. From Twitter debates to YouTube videos to Facebook and iPhone applications, the candidates, especially President-Elect Obama, used the tools found online to reach out to the modern-day voter. In addition, news organizations and other sites across the web enhanced the election process by encouraging citizen participation. The impact of these efforts made voting once again feel like a true participatory experience.
Yesterday, we provided you with a web toolkit for the election, and as we watched the television news last night, we revisited some of those sites mentioned. In many ways, what we saw online as voting drew to a close was a little bit of history being made, too. Ustreamed speeches, Twitter voter reports, voters recording videos for YouTube, web sites breaking the news before the TV stations did, and so much more.
The internet has not only impacted this last election, it has forever changed politics in America.
Please enjoy this flickr slideshow of what we saw last night - the election, as seen on the web:
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If you enjoy slide shows, here's a nice one from CNN with Obama's speech going on. http://www.cnn.com/interactive/allpolitics/0811/slideshow.obama.speech/
Hi Sarah, I enjoyed the slideshow. It was amazing to watch the election results from so many different media. One area I didn't see in the slideshow, but also played a big role on Election Day, was mobile. Plenty of people weren't at home but still kept abreast of news via mobile websites like CNN's Election Center, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, etc. and social networking sites like Twitter, Twitterific, Facebook Mobile, etc. We have some of these pics as well on our blog at http://blog.crispwireless.com/index.php/2008/11/04/a-refreshing-election-an-election-for-change/.
Sarah,
Doesn't it excite you that our next president actually has an understanding and appreciation of the plethora of social media tools available to engage people both online and off? I woke up this morning extremely excited at being an American again.
Not to mention excited at the prospect of getting a CTO for our country who can work on infrastructure to support extending these social tools further into our national fabric.
Thanks for the recap of the tools. I was as glued to Twitter last night as I was to television.