Tag Archives: obama
Mad gaming policies: Does your candidate have them?
While recently on the campaign trail in Denver with the UW Election Eye team, we talked with John and Elizabeth Santorum. As you can see in the video below, Rick Santorum has been working quite hard on the campaign trail, … Continue reading
Questionable Copyright Claim On White House Photos
Let me preface this post by reminding folks that IANAL (I am not a lawyer). The U.S. government policy on photographs and copyright is pretty straightfoward: photos produced by federal employees as part of their job responsibilities are “not subject … Continue reading
Watson’s CauseWired
In his timely book, CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World (Wiley, 2008), Tom Watson tracks the growing trend of activists creatively using online media to generate new forms of involvement, support, and fundraising. Watson presents a series of case studies and anecdotes from his personal experience to analyze networked activism and provide a set of principles, as well as a few words of caution, for effective online organizing. Continue reading
Will Obama’s Economic Stimulus to Broadband Help?
This Associated Press story asks if billions are spent to fund broadband to unserved areas will it do any good? Will new people sign up for broadband (51% say they’re not interested)? Will there be a “network effect” creating new … Continue reading
The Voter Engagement Success of Obama ’08
During the 2008 Presidential election, the Obama campaign pushed the envelope in two significant ways: they set out to change the face of the electoral map by mobilizing new and young voters; and they took the guesswork out of their resource allocation strategy to achieve that goal.
Rather than engage in the futile exercise of attempting to control an outcome from the top-down, the Obama campaign structured its efforts to model the complexities and nuances of a political campaign in a networked society the same way scientists model an ecosystem, a weather system, an immune system, or a social system–using the concept of a Complex Adaptive System. Continue reading
Should The President Keep His “Blackberry”?
It is true that President Obama gets to keep his Blackberry. The historic presidency of Barack Obama earns another “first black” title as the President wins the debate of using his “blackberry” while President of the United States. According to … Continue reading
How Will You Watch the Inauguration?
After last night’s incredibly successful Digital President event (video to be posted here by next week), I’ve turned my attention to Barack Obama’s inauguration. Specifically, how will I actually watch it here on the Pacific coast? Should I share the … Continue reading
UW/MCDM Event: The Digital President
Facebook. Twitter. Mybarackobama.com. Text messaging. The President-elect used all of these digital tools to devastating effect in the 2008 election. How did he do it? What strategic lessons can we learn from Barack Obama’s high-tech campaign? How might he deploy … Continue reading
