This article talks about the difficulty that Obama has had in using his campaign organization, now known as “Organizing for America”, in the service of promoting his health care agenda. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/health/policy/15ground.html?_r=1&hp
Campaigns, Health Care, Obama | Michael Heaney, 14 Aug 09 | 
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Blue State Digital is the consulting firm that grew out of the Howard Dean’s campaign for the presidency in 2004. Among its other clients, it was employed by presidential candidate Barack Obama to design, manage, and integrate www.mybarackobama.com into the Obama for America campaign organization. For a brief description of the work that they did on the Obama campaign, see: http://www.bluestatedigital.com/casestudies/client/obama_for_america_2008/
Campaigns, Internet, Obama | Michael Heaney, 12 Aug 09 | Comments (0)
Check out the proceedings of this recent conference on “YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle”, held at the University of Massaschusetts: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=jitpc2009,
Campaigns, Internet | Michael Heaney, 11 Aug 09 | Comments (0)
Senator Obama used Facebook successfully during his campaign for President. Here’s a short article about Chris Hughes, one of the Facebook founders who went to work for the Obama campaign: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/technology/07hughes.html?scp=29&sq=%22social%20networks%22&st=cse
Campaigns, Internet, Obama | Michael Heaney, 2 Jul 09 | Comments (0)