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Why President Clinton's Team Is Changing its Tune About Tweeting From Salesforce.com Event
President Bill Clinton has been in a bit of a blogger firestorm this week following his camp's demand that there would be no tweeting or live blogging at his keynote session at the Dreamforce, the Salesforce.com event in a few weeks.
We reported Tuesday about an email message we received from the public relations firm representing Salesforce.com, which laid out the Clinton team's mandates.
According to people familiar with the event, it is the traditional media that Clinton wants to keep from live reporting. Tweeting is just fine for the attendees. Seems simple enough, huh? But this isn't a simple media world anymore. Everyone tweets at these kinds of keynotes. Everyone posts. What is the differentiation?
Howcast Hosts 5th Summit of the Americas (Updated)
How-to video site Howcast collaborated with the US Department of State to develop a media-rich web site for the Fifth Summit of the Americas, a strategic meeting between diplomats and world leaders from the western hemisphere, including President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The pressing issues headlining this summit will be human prosperity, energy security, and environmental sustainability. The summit, located in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, runs from April 17 (tomorrow!) through April 19, and there is an opportunity for the public to submit questions to be addressed on the final day.
Another Way to Measure Electoral Clout: Watch the Widgets
Even though last night's big contests in Kentucky and Oregon ended in a split decision, with big wins for both Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, most pundits now agree on who is most likely to be the Democratic nominee for president when the convention rolls around in August. Hint: it's the candidate who has dominated nearly every method we could think of to measure election momentum on the web. We got some data last night from widget-provider Widgetbox that shows the same trend for viral widget installs.
Swiftboating Made Accessible via VoterVoter.com
VoterVoter.com is a new web site from advertising firm WideOrbit, which manages $10 billion worth of advertising on 950 TV, radio, and cable stations in the US, that brings the dirty game of campaign attacks ads directly to the people. Billing themselves as "a non-partisan political advertising service" that was founded to "further democratize the political process," what it really is is a way for any Tom, Dick, or Larry with a couple of thousand bucks to do what 527 organizations do every election cycle: play dirty politics.
How the Barack Obama Campaign Uses Wikis to Organize Volunteers
The Republican nominating contest for President of the United States is all but sewn up -- Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee are footnotes and with 256 GOP delegates at stake today, John McCain may have enough pledged delegates to have his party's nomination in hand by morning. The Democratic contest, however, is still close and all-important primaries today in Texas and Ohio (and important-but-less-so elections in Vermont and my own home state of Rhode Island) could decide the fate of that party's nominee. Yesterday I had a chance to talk with Isaac Garcia, CEO of Central Desktop, whose software is being used by the Obama campaign to manage field operations in Texas.
Obama and Paul: The Kings of the Web Election
There's no question this year that Barack Obama and Ron Paul are the kings of US politics on the Internet. They both command the lion's share of their party's attention online and seem to dominate social networking and social media sites. So why is only one of those campaigns actually working? How come only Obama has been able to translate his online success to success at the polls? We thought we'd take a brief look today at the Obama campaign and why it has been successful, while citizens in 24 US states head to the polls as part of "Super Tuesday."
UPDATE: Also check out Keeping Tabs on Super Tuesday, our guide to following Super Tuesday via the Internet.
Politweets: Twittering Politics
I went out to dinner last night, and when I came home and switched on my TV, John McCain had already won the Republican primary in New Hampshire. But on the Democratic side, it was too close to call -- just about 2300 votes separated Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, with the college town of Hanover still left to count. After I watched McCain's speech, I went downstairs to my office, and things were still too close to project a winner. I got absorbed in something and forgot to turn on the TV, but I kept my eye on a new site called Politweets.
Web Crystal Ball: Obama and Paul Will Win Tonight
The use of social networking and web-based organizing tools in politics has been a major story over the past year (in fact, we named it as our 6th most important story of 2007). Tonight, when a number of Iowans gather to decide who they think should represent the two major US political parties in the upcoming presidential election, we will begin to see if all that web campaigning paid off.
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