Interesting :: Sproutbuilder & uStream Webcast - Political Response to Sarah Palin
October 30, 2008 by Robert · Comments Off
This tweet by by B.L. Ochman (@whatsnext)caught my eye. I clicked. Pretty cool.
- Women Against Sarah Palin live webcast today 1-9 pm - http://tinyurl.com/62ew52 reading from 200,000 letters about how we feel about her
I’m sharing this because we just covered SproutBuilder in class.
Click the link and you’ll see that they used SproutBuilder to create the conduit (link) to get the embed code to share the conference in your own blog. Think viral.
Real Women Respond to Sarah Palin
Then, you get the embed code for their uStream.tv Webcast.
Again, viral!
But, we had to go through three sites. Twitter to find the note from B.L. Then, we went here Women Against Sarah Palin: Host Today’s Live Webathon on Your Website and here Embed | Real Women Respond to Palin Webathon.
My thought … why not just embed the Webcast code into the SproutBuilder and then you skip all those steps while getting immediate posting of the Webcast. I’ll check SproutBuilder to see if you can, indeed, embed uStream code in a Sprout. OK, now I know why … it seems that SproutBuilder supports Seesmic & YouTube, but doesn’t yet allow embedding of code. Well, they’ll get to that, I’m sure.
Setting politics aside, and not offering critques of their style & layout, this is a pretty interesting use of multiple free resources to help spread a meme.
I will share this. It is a slow, slow moving presentation. You have to really want to see it to become involved. Fewer long pauses in their transitions would make this a more compelling event. Right now, I fear they are only preaching to the choir. This won’t likely pull in new people.
Just thought I’d share.
Obama to Announce VP Choice via Email and SMS :: Maybe, We’ll See
August 10, 2008 by Robert · Comments Off
According to an email I just received, Barack Obama is going to give his supporters the news of his pick for Vice President via email and SMS, before anyone else.
Hmm? Well, it would be a first. I must admit to a wee bit (OK, a lot) of skepticism on this one. All the news organizations are signed up for all of his mailing lists, after all. They also see mailing lists we never see. So, will his supporters really be the first to know? Read more
Alabama democrat candidate for U.S. House reaches out to bloggers
July 20, 2008 by Robert · 11 Comments
The political season offers many opportunities for exploring how candidates are using social media in their campaigns. I didn’t think I’d find many (if any) examples in the Alabama races this year. Then, a Google ad popped up in my mail reader: “Turning Alabama Blue - Segall2008.com - Viable democrat running in Alabama. Watch his intro-video and join us!” Read more
