The 2008 Election will be much more transparent with the mass media and social media recruiting citizens to report abnormalities at the polling place via cell phone, Twitter and YouTube. What’s happening in these US elections should have profound influence for future elections around the world where democracies still have corrupt elements. Bravo to the [...]
The verticalization of Twitter continues, as it should. Twitter can be too broad population to effectively filter out vertical conversations. Micro-blogging is the best medium at this time to aggregate user generated conversations along topics. Election.Twitter is a simple application but provides a hyper-real time view on the mood of the political nation. The mainstream [...]
1959 was the first TV election with the Kennedy-Nixon debates. Paris Hilton has just become iconic this election… demonstrating that a dubious, accidental celebrity can instantly transform her brand with a smart timely YouTube video in response to a McCain commercial: Watch this 2008 election and see how the social media begins to infiltrate the [...]
Patrick Kitano is founding Principal of Brand into Media, a unique strategy group working with corporations and organizations to develop social and media-based strategies that engage hyperlocal communities.
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