User-Generated Dialogue with President Elect

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Nov 09, 2008, 08:37 AM
REBLOGGED From Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs
User generated dialog with the President-Elect

What About Web 2.0 Democracy?

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Nov 07, 2008, 04:57 PM
What if all the brilliant Web 2.0 organizing and energy of the campaign could be part of democracy? What if social networks were built into governance? What if our ideas really mattered? That is idealistic, to be sure, but who ever heard of so much promise so soon. Check out http://change.gov/ and smile some more.

Obama by the Social Networking Numbers

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Nov 06, 2008, 02:33 AM
eremiah Owyang, whose blog is Web Strategy by Jeremiah, posted these numbers on November 3, his comparative analysis of the social networking of Barack Obama's campaign and John McCain's and their relative followers. Pretty interesting! Here's the link for the blog posting that is filled with comments, more links, and analysis.  Bottom line:  Of course Obama won!

http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/11/03/snapshot-of-presidential-c...