It’s now obligatory for Presidential candidates to make the comedy circuit. The YouTubed 2008 Presidential campaign officially got started with Paris Hilton’s reply to McCain’s celebrity commercial, and ends with John and Cindy McCain spoofing themselves: Love the White Oprah comment by Palin/Fey… I’m assuming she would enjoy being a talk show host more than [...]
One Presidential debate should be hosted on Comedy Central and start off with comedic monologues. Humor puts some of the peripheral issues like comparing McCain to Bush in context much better than just trying to explain it seriously. John McCain turns out to be an excellent non-angry and gracious comedian, revealing a sympathetic character that [...]
CNN reports that 2/3 of the public don’t want to see another debate. After #3, I don’t either because the rhetoric unceremoniously petrified into refrains of “McCain is Bush” and “Obama will raise taxes”. The debate reactions are more transparent with real time polling on CNN by their pundits and by commentary from Election Twitter [...]
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.
I'm the author of Media Transparent, and contributor to Street Fight, Social Media Today, Daily Deal Media, The Customer Collective, and Quora.
I speak on the future of social commerce at conferences associated with social media, local advertising and real estate.
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