Saturday 1 May 2010

Obama Chats to the PR wire

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5 comments:

  1. Clare3 May 2010 at 11:08

    Excellent video JP! British politicians are using social media, but they don't have the charisma that President Barack Obama has. The younger generation looked up to him and therefore a good reason why Jay-Z and Kanye endorsed Barack for president. Some interesting facts and figures of how many people joined up Facebook and YouTube.

    Recent newspapers have suggested that Lib Dems leader Nick Clegg is like Barack Obama, but I think this is a bit ambitious of them to say that.

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  2. JP Charles3 May 2010 at 11:21

    Thanks Clare! Glad you enjoyed the video. I thought about doing my video post about the use of social media in current U.K election but it seems that David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg have failed to embrace social media in the same way Obama did in 2008.

    Obama fully engaged in social media during his campaign and was rewarded by getting nearly 70% of the votes among young Americans under 25! This was the highest percentage since US exit polling began in 1976.

    I agree Cleggers has got some serious swag,but I think he lacks the Prime Ministerial substance to take the keys to No.10

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  3. maria3 May 2010 at 17:12

    I like your video too! I think that the data about Twitter and Facebook that "Obama" says are very interesting.

    I think that the Obama campaign was special because it was the first time that someone used the social media to arrive to the White House.

    I think like Clare that say that Clegg is the new Obama is a bit ambitious because Obama was the first one that used these tools and now it is different because you know how the results were.

    About the British elections I can not say anything, in Spain we have Zapatero, I think that I do not need more words.

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  4. KJLogue3 May 2010 at 17:24

    I think this is a great video, and I liked the original slant on using Obama as your character.

    A lot can be learned by the way Obama used social media in his campaign but I think we have to be careful when we accuse UK politicians of not embracing it fully. That US election was an unprecedented phenomenon and I think British people may use social media in a different way. I also think that, in fundraising terms, some of the parties (particularly Labour) have been using social media to great effect. It may be more expedient to wait until after the election to measure exactly how social media has affected the results – should be interesting!

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  5. Ani15 May 2010 at 20:15

    I will join your throngs of fans and profess my enjoyment of this video :) Great way to convey the facts in an engaging and unique way :) Politicians and governments are starting to understand the importance of social media and community networking to cause a grassroots stir. David Plouffe did a masterful job of managing Obama's campaign. If you're interested, check out a blog post I did about how PR can help bridge the gap between government and social media where I talked about Obama's campaign: http://prcisely.blogspot.com/2010/04/government-social-media-how-pr-can.html Cheers!

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