Published Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 10:57
by
rikkeindenmark
in European democracy & diversity (1245 views and 6 comments)
This weekend I will
be doing a presentation on social networking tools at the
PES activist
forum in Vienna. I was glad to find out that there’ll be a
workshop dedicated to online campaigning - and now I'm looking
very much forward to debating the topic with other PES activists.
Therefore, I thought it would be appropriate with a few words on
online campaigning and my particular ‘campaigning speciality’,
namely social networking sites.
The US elections usually say a thing or two about upcoming
campaigning tools and methods. In the primaries social networks
turned out to be really hot - as a voter you could connect to
candidates pretty much everywhere: Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn... you
name the network and Clinton and Obama would be
there!
Given the experiences from the primaries social networking sites
are likely to play a...