Topic: Elections and Voting

Tech Watch: Apple and Google Work on iPhone, Gay Marriage

Ever since the T-Mobile G1 launch, Apple and Google have gotten into bed together to bring more Google features to the iPhone. The tech titans are also collaborating on pushing for equality of same-sex marriages.READ»

• Apple Fallen
• Android Market vs. Apple App Store

Design Thursday: Design for Democracy

If you doubt that design matters, think about the ballot you might have cast on this past Election Day—and then talk to Al Gore. Two years before a blizzard of hanging chads froze Gore out of the Oval Office, a 1998 study found ...READ»

How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign

The untold story of how Chris Hughes, today only 25 years old, helped create two of the most successful startups in modern history, Facebook and the Barack Obama campaign.READ»

• The Community That Hughes Built
• Lessons From The Trenches

Obama's Use of Social Media: Less Than Adequate?

I have lots of thoughts about the Election, and especially the use of technology and social media by the Obama campaign.  My brain is fried from two years of tracking every twist and turn in the campaign cycle, so I don't know how ...READ»

Web, White, and Blue

Will young people care about politics? Is America ready for online voting? Can the net save democracy? Those are the questions that beltway veteran Doug Bailey is asking.READ»

Branding the Presidential Candidates

Wouldn’t you love to be able to describe your company’s brand in a few words? What if you could say it in just one word? I believe that our presidential candidates can. I usually avoid political comment. But this election ...READ»

The Site With 8.64 Trillion Hits in One Day

The day before India's Lok Sabha elections, the country's election commission made a new Web site live to provide election results in real-time. The commisson overbuilt the site, so it thought, readying it for almost 3,000 hits per ...READ»

Lessons From the Obama Campaign Part II

Yesterday I began my review of the innovators and strategies that the Obama campaign employed to win the presidency. Here is another tried and true method for success that you can implement into your own business strategy. Coordinate ...READ»

The Brand Called Obama

Win or lose, Barack Obama's rise changes business as usual for everyone. Here's why.READ»

• How to Build a Brand Like Obama
• The Brand Called President
• How Obama Won It With the Web

Social Justice - Tracy Westen

"Democracy is an interactive form of government."READ»

Can Short-Term Brand "Candidate Obama" Transform Successfully Into Long-Term Brand "President Obama"?

A spate of recent articles about the Obama brand have, in my view as an expert on marketing, neglected the brand's strategy and focused its verbal or visual expressions. But far more important is the distinction between the ...READ»

To Be A Leader, Make Sure You Vote

Yesterday, the fate of Minnesota's Senate seat, undecided since the November election, was finally decided; the margin, out of 2.9 million votes cast, all of 312. Congratulations to Senator Al Franken. In 2000, George W. Bush's ...READ»

Education: Bookkeeping, Book Learning, and Earning

I was tempted to call today's post "When Business and Education Collide -- The Sequel": If you want students to learn more math, send them to a school run by a for-profit company. That's the conclusion drawn by a Harvard study of ...READ»

Is Democracy Broken?

Should it really cost $200 million to run for President? At what point does the fundraising mean more than the ideas? There's been a huge shift in the way the Internet has affected marketing of all types, and now, for the first ...READ»

Brand Obama Thrills Broadcasters with Record Ad Spend, But Cheap Video and Democracy Are the Big Winners

It may be silly season for the Presidential campaigns on television until Election Day, but the Brand Called Obama has been brought to you by the internet.READ»

• The Brand Called Obama
• How to Build a Brand Like Obama

Digital Matters - Issue 32

"Congress and the states have the authority to tax Internet transactions -- but they don't have the votes."READ»

Fast Talk: John McCain's Pacemaker

Russ Schriefer Media Director, John McCain Campaign Washington, DC Russ Schriefer, 48, credited as one of George W. Bush's main image makers, is part of the five-member advertising team who will be writing and scripting all of ...READ»

Twitter Vote Report Offers Real-Time Democracy on Election Day

Voters across the U.S. will have a nifty tool at their disposal on Election Day to report their voting experiences through TwitterVoteReport.com, a new monitoring platform co-developed by the blog techPresident and an all volunteer ...READ»

Richard Nixon

Simultaneously his own harshest critic and biggest fan, Richard Nixon fulfilled his biggest dream and worst nightmare when he returned to politics in the late 1960s.READ»

All Politics Is Loco

Now that the absurd political spectacle in Cal-ee-fornia is over (at least until the actual attempt to govern begins), the rest of the nation can turn its attention back to the Democratic presidential candidate sweepstakes. And no ...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»

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

Getting Political for Halloween

Let’s face it: the U.S. presidential election is dominating our lives and won’t stop until November 4. Might as well have some fun with it, right? Luckily, Halloween falls before Election Day, making it the opportune time to get ...READ»

The Leading Edge - What Voters and You Want to Know before you Elect or Hire Someone

The question on voters minds that should be asked in the final debate is: "What have you already done individually and cooperatively that produced a positive, lasting, important,measurable result for the common good?" ...READ»

Barack Obama's VP Announcement and Embracing Technology

Barack Obama's latest move online has cemented his place as the presidential candidate that has fully embraced the Internet and web 2.0 concepts. On his website, the public can now sign-up to receive an email or cellphone text ...READ»