Minnesota Politics & Social Media

Blois Olson introduces the social media & politics panel

[/caption] I can credit the start of my career in online strategy in large part to my fascination with online political communication. In 1994, I read about the first online gubernatorial debate held by E-Democracy (of which I am now a board member); but [...]

Chart Wars: Data Visualization As A Messaging Vehicle

Alex Lundy explains the power of data visualization in public discourse. Found at Blip.tv via Holy Kaw!

The One Big Thing: Real-Time Social Search

The One Big Thing you need to know about this week is real-time social search. The two big news stories this week were Google’s roll-out of real-time search and Facebook’s new privacy features. While Google’s real-time search indexes new and freshly updated Web pages, blogs, and Tweets, reports have it that Facebook and MySpace updates [...]

Wiring A Web For Global Good – UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown

We’re at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: we can use today’s interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic — and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy. Found at TED.com.

Steve Rubel Interviews Mike Slaby, Former CTO Of The Obama Campaign

July 20, 2009 · Categories: Interviews, Podcasts, Political Marketing, Video · View Comments 
Those of you who have been following this blog since at least the beginning of the last presidential campaign know how much I admire the work of then-candidate Barack Obama’s online marketing team. This is a fantastic interview Steve Rubel recently conducted with Mike Slaby, the Obama campaign’s CTO; some great insights:

Blois Olson On PR 2.0 – PR Rockstar Interview With Airk Hanson

Arik Hanson does a fantastic job with the PR Rockstar series on his Communications Conversations blog, which I highly recommend. (Check out Arik’s YouTube channel for previous interviews.) The series not only provides his readers with insight from the smart people he interviews, but it is a very smart blog marketing tactic for Arik himself. People [...]

The One Big Thing: The Revolution Will Be Crowdsourced

The One Big Thing you need to know about this week is the role citizen media and the social Web played in reporting the popular revolt over the Iranian election results. I won’t give you a play-by-play but I will offer a few thoughts: Information Wants To Be Free The first and most obvious thing was that the [...]

Internet Technology & Corporate Responsibility

A discussion hosted by the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley: Recent innovations in science and technology have provided human rights advocates, journalists, and scientists with new tools to expose war crimes and other serious violations of human rights and to disseminate this information in real time throughout the world. The panel addresses issues of free [...]

Walker Art Center: Designing Obama Panel

This is a Walker Art Center Panel entitled “Designing Obama” featuring, Scott Thomas and Sol Sender, the graphic designers who created Barack Obama’s presidential campaign logo and moderated by Minnesota’s own Paul Schmelzer. Paul is editor of the Minnesota Independent, former editor of the Walker Art Center blogs, and blogger at Eyeteeth, which you should read. [...]

The One Big Thing: White House Social Media

The One Big Thing you need to know this week is that the Obama Administration has continued their eGovernance initiatives. In addition to the White House blog, the administration has established a White House channel on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr and iTunes. Predictably enough, they’re calling it WhiteHouse 2.0. As I’ve said before, the Adminstration’s [...]

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