Jose Antonio Vargas from the Washington Post has a good article today about massive network of supporters that is developing on Facebook around Barack Obama's Presidential candidacy. Of course, I'm biased here, as The Bivings Group is quoted in the piece.
Here is what we/I had to say:
"The key point here is that the support for Obama on these social-networking sites is not being driven by the campaign itself....
Continue ReadingAfter Tom posted his review earlier today I went back and took a closer look at the John Edwards site. I immediately noticed that Edwards' has dramatically expanded his presence on the social networking sites (see icon on the right).
Upon close inspection it turns out that the Edwards'...
Continue ReadingPart 2 of my presidential campaign site review series (Hillary was the first) finds us staring into the guts of the Edwards effort. We have clicked through the initial splash page, dodging the listserv sign-up and chose instead to enter the site.
I’m puzzled at the lack of photography on the main page....
Continue ReadingWith the rising popularity of user-controlled news sites, everyday citizens are no longer dependent on mainstream media to decide what in the news is important. By now, everyone knows this, and most people understand the power of a site like Digg as a traffic generator for blogs and news sites and also as a means to a highly desirable end for anyone using the Internet…viral status....
Continue ReadingWant to know why some campaign websites are so restrictive, often taking days to approve user generated content? Check out this post on Techcrunch about a very disturbing hiccup Arrington found on the new Obama website. Yikes.
I've seen lots of hiccups like this in my time. I remember doing some political work a few years back and a volunteer complained about an auto-generated password we sent him. ...
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