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Is Obama campaign a model for the future?: TechPresident takes note of the Obama's campaign integration of online methods into its overall campaign strategy. Colin Delany refers to a Post article that looked at the campaign's operations in Iowa. Depending on the voter, they follow with Facebook reminders, telephone...; Tags: Operation, TechPresident, Internet, Social Networking, Productivity, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-02-03

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Obama benefits from the Net's election power: The Internet has fundamentally changed the second most important aspect of elections: money. In fact, writes Tom Regan in the Christian Science Monitor's "Innovation" column, if not for Internet fundraising, Barack Obama would not be the Democratic nominee. In a year when he continues to break all fundraising records,...; Tags: Network, Benefit, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-06-18
Republican YouTube debate rescheduled for November: The Republicans are back on board. After a few dicey weeks where it didn't look like Republican candidates wanted anything to do with video-camera wielding voters, CNN and YouTube have rescheduled their online video debate with the GOP candidates for president, the Hollywood Reporter reports.The debate will be held November...; Tags: Republican, YouTube Inc., Video, Candidate, Blogger, ZDNet Government; Blog posts 2007-08-14
The verdict on candidates' texting: Obama ahead of Edwards, Clinton coming up lame: What campaign manager could resist technology that reaches more than 75% of Americans? Taking cues from television, presidential hopefuls are using cellphones to text-message voters in much the same way that viewers vote for their favorite American Idol contestatnt, reports the Washington Post.The Obama campaign has jumped on the fledging...; Tags: Elections; Blog posts 2007-07-02
Bloggers no fan of Clinton - but does it matter?: Sam Stein, writing at The Politico, identifies Hilary Clintons "blogger problem" but wonders if it makes a difference. Are politicians and politics-watchers losing perspective with their obsesson with the "netroots" when they should be watching their base? “Her model of doing politics is based on pandering to individual groups,”...; Tags: Elections, Government technology; Blog posts 2007-05-11

MySpace brings online town halls to campuses, but is this just another online debate?: MySpace announced today that it will host a series of "Town Hall" candidates meetings on college campuses, Reuters reports. The meetings will feature all of the major candidates, including Clinton, Obama, McCain, Edwards, Guiliani, Romney and Thompson. The meetings will be broadcast on MySpace video and MySpace users will...; Tags: Instant messaging, MySpace, online debate, Micah Sifry; Blog posts 2007-05-10
Obama campaign in cyberspat over supporter's MySpace page: In the latest development in the MySpace wars, Mr. Clean, Barack Obama, has been a litle dirtied over his campaigns handling of a pro-Obama blogger looking for a little support. TechPresident reportson what happened when an Obama devotees MySpace page soared beyond his wildest dreams and sadly spun out of...; Tags: Government technology; Blog posts 2007-05-02
A visit to John Edwards' virtual hang-out: At TechPresident, Ruby Sinreich offers a pretty in-depth of John Edwards space on Second Life. Somehow the campaigns think its important this year to play with all the geeky toys and Second Life is not exception. Sinreich visited the day Elizabeth Edwards cancer recurrence was announced, so the space...; Tags: Government technology, Elections; Blog posts 2007-04-12
Anti-Hillary net video shaking up politics: In the 2006 election, the big YouTube story was George Allens "macaca" video. That is, the mode was campaign staffers and volunteers tailing their opponents, running video on everything they said and waiting for campaign gold. Already in 2007, its clear that the 08 election will be the mashup...; Tags: video, Obama t-shirt, advertisement; Blog posts 2007-03-22
John Edwards goes crazy for social networks: Noting criticism that John Edwards site goes overboard with so many links to social networking sites - 24 of them - David All at TechPresident praises Edwards "messy" website. John Edwards use of 24 different social networking tools is smart. And its given me 24 more reasons to visit...; Tags: Government technology, Elections; Blog posts 2007-02-20
TechPresident.com tracks the websites: With John Edwards, Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama offering various levels of citizen interaction on their websites and campaigns, its only natural that a blog has sprung up to cover the emergence of Politics 2.0 sites. TechPresident.com is a blog dedicated to tracking the technical, social networking and various Web...; Tags: blog, Elections, Government technology; Blog posts 2007-02-12