People are saying the internet won it for Obama, the first “search engine President”. Hilary spent $67,000 on google ads and Obama spent a million. Its seems the web made a big difference. Interesting . . .
Obama and the web
People are saying the internet won it for Obama, the first “search engine President”. Hilary spent $67,000 on google ads and Obama spent a million. Its seems the web made a big difference. Interesting . . .
It’s one of those things where something like being nominated as a presidential candidate is never going to be down to just one thing. His recognition of the internet and – in particular – social networking, was definitely a big factor. Galvanizing over 1.5 million people to make donations – mostly over the internet – is huge!
You might be interested in a couple of short posts I did semi-related to this last month:
http://www.samradford.org/2008/05/15/a-new-kind-of-leadership/
http://www.samradford.org/2008/05/16/a-new-kind-of-model/
These were based on a fascinating article in The Atlantic.com about ‘How Silicon Valley made Barack Obama this year’s hottest start-up’.