With the summer approaching, some of us may slacking on our social medial monitoring. If you’re one of those individuals, don’t worry. Below are the 5 headlines that you may have missed this week, but shouldn’t have.
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Pollsters, pundits and social networkers predicted change was coming, and come it did. With Republicans now the majority in the U.S. House and a shrunken Democratic majority ruling in the Senate, committees, priorities and the legislative agenda are bound to change.
Here are the top 5 ways the midterm election results will impact social media.
Social media was front and center for the 2010 midterm elections yesterday in the United States, with both old and new media relying heavily on social media to augment their coverage. We take a look at the different news organizations’ approaches to election coverage, and make some predictions about what will be reincarnated for the 2012 presidential election two years from now.
Foursquare has announced today that it plans to provide real-time visualizations of the 2010 elections on November 2nd, using check-ins and geo-location data at the polling booths.
The 2010 midterm elections are just two weeks away. The balance of our nation’s power is at stake – do you know the issues? Are you ready to cast your ballot? Whether you want to see Democrats or Republicans in power, a Tea Party upset or your favored ballot measure become law, let social networking be your guide.
Google lets you track your flight, order a package, peer into your neighbor’s house, find anyone and become an expert on just about anything. And now a new feature on the search agent extraordinaire will allow you to become an armchair political pundit too.
With the crucial midterm elections coming up in less than two months, The New York Times points out that when researching candidates on the Web, things aren’t always what they seem, as URLs that contain candidates’ names often point users to Web sites created by their opponents, or even out-of-state members of the rival party.
The Times reports that BobMenendez.com does not bring Web surfers to a site for Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), but to Sharon Angle for U.S. Senate, a page for the campaign of Sharon Angle, who is running for Senate in Nevada as a Republican. One of the main uses of the site is to discredit Democrats.
Similarly, as reported by the Times, bradellsworth.org is not pro-Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-Ind.), but instead linked to Bad for Indiana, on which the state Republican Party claims that Ellsworth is a “reliable rubber stamp for liberal policies,” among other things.
The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse told the Times fewer than 50 percent of senators and some 40 percent of representatives own their “fullname.com” domain names, and the numbers are 32 percent and 22 percent, respectively, for “fullname.org,” and president Josh Bourne told the Times, “I’ve been amazed on how many congressmen don’t have the same sense of brand as businesses have.”
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ITV, the largest commercial television broadcaster in the UK, will be broadcasting tomorrow’s first election debate between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg live online, and will be using social networking tools to reach out to the public. The event will begin streaming live on ITV’s website at 8:30 GMT, and during and after the debate users can use Facebook, Twitter, and live chats to discuss the event.
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