A new infographic from MDG Advertising takes a look at how social media played into fundraising in the 2008 elections and what we can expect on the political fundraising front in 2012.
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Super Tuesday is here, with ten states heading to the polls to cast their ballots in the GOP primary. As the 2012 election heats up, YouTube is bringing you coverage all day long. They’ve partnered with Storyful to bring you the very best in videos live from the campaign trail, and tonight the Wall Street Journal will be reporting the results live on their YouTube channel.
I had the opportunity to interview Corey Gottlieb, Managing Partner at Socialitical to find out more about how politicians are using social media to engage with potential voters, and what sorts of trends are popping up in the political social media scene.
MDG Advertising has put together an awesome infographic exploring ‘The Growing Read Of Social Media’s Election Impact,’ taking a look at how social media has grown since the 2008 election and what it means for 2012.
President Obama completed his first live Google Hangout on Monday, and the results were pretty good. Google has put up the video, and you can see that whether you agree with the answers or not, the overall effect of having Americans from all over the country asking live questions to the President is a very effective way to see the President in a variety of situations. Unfortunately, for this particular interview the questions were strongly moderated and the questions were a bit too vague — the whole interview had a positive vibe and some tough questions weren’t addressed.
“2012 is coming! 2012 is coming!” No, this isn’t an apocalyptic chant; it’s a fact: the 2012 Presidential Election is fast approaching. But, before Republicans and Democrats start looking forward, they should look North. Canada just had a Federal election dubbed “the social media election”, and there’s plenty they can learn about social media and politics.
The U.S. Senate stayed with Democrats. The U.S. House went to Republicans. And the electorate went the way of….social networking.
Election Tuesday came and went with the usual media storm — and as usual, we were all too happy to watch the returns come in one by one. After all, what’s more dramatic or entertaining than the fate of the country? Television reporting has always been a mainstay of election night drama, but Twitter has also become a valued source. In the end, if used correctly, Twitter was the more interesting way to follow the results. Read more
We might not know who is going to win the U.S. presidential election come November (well, we have a pretty good idea), but we do know which candidate has the better Web site.
More than 100 Internet experts served as judges for the annual WebAward competition held by The Web Marketing Association.
And it looks like a landslide…
In what could be a glimpse of what the future holds for Twitter, the top microblogging site has launched Twitter Election 2008 or simply TE08. As if there were not enough users taking full advantage of its site, Twitter is leveraging on the Election 2008 to attract more users, and perhaps give us a glimpse of what and how Twitter can be used aside from microblogging. Read more
