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[30 Oct 2008 | Comments Off | 7 views]

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 …

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[10 Aug 2008 | Comments Off | 4 views]

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 …

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[20 Jul 2008 | 11 Comments | 56 views]

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!”