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Obama, the Future-Friendly President, Wins Nobel Peace Prize

This morning the World had a bit of a surprise: The Nobel Prize Committee announced its choice for the Peace Prize as President Barack Obama (the subject of Fast Company's April 2008 cover story, "The Brand Called Obama"). Few people ...READ»

Fast History: Barack Obama Accepts the Democratic Nomination For President, 2008

It’s been a tough first year for the bringer of hope and change. Though only in office for seven months, Obama’s been shouldering the hopes of a nation from the moment he entered the presidential race. But after passing a ...READ»

Afghanistan's Presidential Election

Congrats to the winner of Afghanistan's second presidential poll: You're leader of the world's No. 1 narco state. Opium production has grown 4,000% since the Taliban's ouster in 2001, and the country now supplies 93% of the global ...READ»

Rwanda's President: "We will not forget the genocide, but we will not be defined by it either"

Ahead of the 15th anniversary of the genocide, Paul Kagame talks about the memory of 1994, Rwanda's development plans, and its custom-made democracy.READ»

• Rwanda Rising
• Bono, Beware: Dambisa Moyo on Aid, Microfinance, and the Problem of Celebs in Africa

The Community That Hughes Built

Volunteers flooded My.BarackObama.com -- MyBO, to insiders -- from the day it launched, nearly crashing the site. Under Hughes, it became a virtual system for helping real people do what they wanted to do in real life: elect Barack Obama president.READ»

• Boy Wonder
• Lessons From The Trenches

Lessons From The Trenches

Activating a customer base with digital tools isn't as easy as it looks. As Chris Hughes showed with both Facebook and Obama, detailed execution is at least as important as strategy. Some examples:READ»

• Boy Wonder
• The Community That Hughes Built

Obama's High-Tech Presidency Tackles Low-Tech White House

President Obama may have promised a new central role for science and technology during his inauguration, and his election campaign was the highest-tech yet seen...but on day one, the new administration's staff crashed headlong into a ...READ»

Inaguration of President Bararck Obama and the Brand Campaign

  Never have we seen an elected president, and maybe even any single person come into the spotlight as quickly, and with as much force as Barack Obama has over the last 4+ years.  If online search (googling) can give any ...READ»

Call It America

The day after Barack Obama was elected as our next President, Ethan Bronner wrote in the New York Times... “There is a country out there where tens of millions of white Christians, voting freely, select as their leader a ...READ»

How Obama Won It With the Web

Both candidates used the Internet to reach America's voters. But Team Obama mastered the medium early and exploited it to the hilt: from an active texting strategy to the MyBarackObama.com social networking site. And along the way, Obama's technology strategy changed the face of politics -- and perhaps the U.S. government -- forever.READ»

• How to Build A Brand Like Obama
• The Brand Called Obama
• All Politics Is Microtargeting

Comparing the Candidates’ Technology and Innovation Policies

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has been tracking Barack Obama and John McCain's positions on innovation and technology policy for some months. In September, ITIF released a report Comparing the Candidates' ...READ»

Talkin' Political Leadership Blues

I want to talk about leadership. I want to talk about a facet of the present American political climate, and I ask you to weigh in on this issue. We have always elected leaders who we believe in, who we feel we can relate to. But ...READ»

Expect a gas "pinch" from Ike?

I'm fairly frustrated with oil companies and have been for a long time. I think that a lot of it comes from the fact that, even with a fuel-mizer of a vehicle, I still feel pain whenever I take it to the pump. Yesterday I received an ...READ»

Candidates for Hire

It’s been two weeks of partying for America’s biggest parties – the Democrats and Republicans. Now four candidates have officially submitted their resumes for the two highest offices in America.  Nearing the end of this very ...READ»

Down - - or Up? - - In Flames

OK, so while many environmental leaders are moaning the loss of the Warner-Lieberman climate bill (S2191) I think we may have actually won an important battle in the war to get Congress to take this issue seriously. Given that ...READ»