South Carolina campaigns are taking to the internet, according to this report from The State. This ain’t your momma’s gubernatorial campaign. Seizing on ever-changing technology, South Carolina’s gubernatorial campaigns are unleashing a cloud of new interactive approaches to make you feel connected to their candidates and gain your vote.
Category: Social Media
Political cybersquatting or something else?
TPM has the story on a controversy surrounding the petehoekstra.com domain. The domain owner speaks out here. If we followed Matthew Sanderson’s advice and created a .pol top-level domain for candidates, none of this would be an issue. Or would it?
Social media in the forefront of political advocacy
Clickz’s Kate Kaye has a rundown on 2009 developments and trends in social media tools for political and issue advocacy. There were few big elections in 2009, but political and advocacy advertisers took the momentum built in the 2008 presidential elections and ran with it. From a surge in Twitter usage to the Google Surge, […]