Monday, July 23, 2012
The Internet Campaign
Obama's social network campaigning was one of the most innovative methods in politics. He was a little known Illinois Senator who used various social networks to raise awareness of the issues he was running on for President, he held fundraisers online, and got people to meet together in person to assemble and promote his campaign. His online presence allowed for thousands of people who otherwise might have not been involved in promoting any candidate in the 2008 election to take a large part in their town or city and play an integral role in their area. Another great move was how the information the Obama campaign was able to collect about those involved in their online campaign to meet in person to hold fundraising events or just to meet in person to come up with ways to promote Obama's campaign in their neighborhoods. This method of campaigning allowed for Obama to raise money, awareness and volunteers to help in his run for the presidency in 2008.
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The usability of Obama's website was much more "comfortable". What do I mean by that? Well, just compare his website created by young team of computer techs to the other candidates, who are older generation and may be don't know all the possibilities a present technology can do and how much it has progressed for the last 15-20 years. Just like Claude says, it was a great idea to put up the addresses and other info of people in neighborhood and make it easy for them to meet and discuss the campaign events and else. The Internet technology definitely played a big role in president election for Mr. Obama.
ReplyDeleteThe Internet is much more effective to the young generation. President Obama had dominated Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, which means he actually dominated the large number of the American population. Besides of that, his website was the most successful social networking tool for him to raise money and promote himself. It's true "2008 is Internet, stupid!"
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