Se não há consenso para encaminhar e aprovar uma Reforma Política no Brasil, por causa da visão superficial e dos interesses próprios de muitos parlamentares no Congresso Nacional, o uso da Internet nas próximas eleições será avassalador. Em todo o mundo as campanhas aumentam seu escopo e atingem públicos que jamais atingiram, principalmente os mais jovens. A troca online de informações ocorre fora do controle dos partidos e dos métodos tradicionais. As redes sociais orkut, facebook, twitter, o youtube, os blogs e sites, não puderam ser utilizadas pelos candidatos em 2008 porque o TSE (Tribunal Superior Eleitoral) não sabia distinguir essas ferramentas dos materiais tradicionais - faixas, banners, camisetas. Foram determinadas regras duras a pretexto de impedir qualquer abuso.
É impossível atrasar mais essa tendência digital. Dados estatísticos e estudos mostram que o número de celulares no Brasil ultrapassa 150 milhões de unidades e que a Internet prospera em quase todos os sentidos: hoje os usuários somam 65 milhões de brasileiros, a televisão será ultrapassada em 2010, como a publicidade na Internet já ultrapassou as TVs por assinatura. Dick Morris, consultor em marketing político, que ajudou a eleger Bill Clinton presidente dos Estados Unidos em 1992, disse que a Internet substituirá a televisão como força dominante na política.
Mas já não é possível achar que a Internet é uma arma política que ainda poucos sabem usar. Faz três anos ouvi uma palestra de FHC, argumentando que era fundamental achar outras maneiras de chegar ao eleitor e citou a Internet como a ferramenta para o sucesso dessa estratégia. Hoje todo mundo está pensando igual, principalmente com a divulgação ampla dos exemplos da eleição de Barack Obama, na mobilização e organização dos eleitores, e na arrecadação de fundos para a sua campanha.
Fernando Gabeira, no Rio de Janeiro, no ano passado também realizou uma das campanhas mais limpas da história do país. Mesmo sujeito às regras restritivas do TSE ele soube utilizar os recursos da Internet, de forma inteligente e estratégica, mobilizando o carioca no seu direito pleno de se informar, se relacionar, se organizar politicamente, trocar idéias antes de escolher nas urnas. Mas ele teve pela frente um Eduardo Paes articulado, com uso eficiente das mesmas ferramentas virtuais e do ascendente poder político do governador Sérgio Cabral.
A lei eleitoral em vigor prevê que os espaços da mídia na Internet sofram as mesmas regulamentações dos demais espaços midiáticos, mas não regula os espaços dos candidatos na Internet. A liberdade no uso das ferramentas virtuais da Internet também configura um avanço sem precedentes, aproximando da política os milhares de brasileiros que hoje usufruem da tecnologia para a informação, comunicação, entretenimento e definição na disputa pelo poder, quando essa questão é levada em conta. É certo que a questão da exclusão digital emergirá nesses debates preliminares, porque a Internet ainda não é uma mídia de massa.
A utilização crescente dos computadores, inclusive nas regiões mais carentes do Brasil, logo favorecerá a interpretação positiva de que é o meio mais democrático, porque nunca houve uma forma tão rápida, expansiva e com capacidade de conectar tantas pessoas de todo o mundo para uma militância virtual e mais engajada. Esse tema precisa entrar na agenda política do Congresso. A experiência deste blog e de tantos outros espaços virtuais muito mais frequentados que ele mostra que foi na rede e não nas ruas que se organizaram os maiores protestos que se sucederam aos escândalos do mensalão, dos cartões corporativos, das passagens de aviões e por aí vai …
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During the past few weeks, while I've engaged in deep research of new trends in internet marketing and social media for my own entrepreneurial initiatives, I've also been keeping track of much of the on-line media involved with the Obama campaign. Of all the great promotional videos that have emerged--my favorite has been this one pioneered by MC Yogi and a local California media team:
MC Yogi: Obama '08 - Vote for Hope
This high quality media production really captures the progressive edge, and may have really helped ground-in votes from the younger "hip" demographic. I've participated in helping this outstanding video go viral in it's organic distribution (nearly 250,000 views in just a few short weeks) by leveraging my own social media tool and skills across my networks.
After the video was initially released, I was told by friends that MC Yogi lives nearby, and that a few people who managed the media production are people I know and have worked with here in Marin County. I had a good feeling that I would likely have an opportunity to meet MC Yogi and congratulate him on such a successful production and contribution. That opportunity finally came last night when I attended the "Groove Garden" dance party in Fairfax--where MC Yogi did a live rendition and rap of the same "Vote for Hope" song for Obama. Directly after his performance, I approached MC Yogi, and shared with him my appreciation of the production, and let him know that it really inspired me. He is a great guy, and my further encouragement led him to also peform several more crowd-inspiring raps for Ganesha, Shiva, and other spiritual reverences.
It's great to realize that with just a few creative minds and some dedicated skill and time--nearly anyone can make significant contributions toward progressive change in this world.
See MC Yogi's website here: www.mcyogi.com
134 more days of W in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Germany now has its own entry page to all support and campaign activities for Barack Obama! Check it out at http://www.germany4obama.com/
-rcs
My son and I were heavily involved in local politics in Scottsdale, AZ. My son has the right idea about people and I'm going to listen to him this time.
Even if he is dead.....www.TaylorBurgstahler.memory-of.com
When you read what kind of a person Taylor is/was you will understand why I feel it's iportant that everyone "gets it" and votes for Obama. It's just the right thing to do.
And because Taylor so... *smile*
GO OBAMA!
Even though it may not look like it or feel like it, you are making progress.
Continue working towards progress instead of perfection.
Nothing or no no one is perfect.
Just keep taking steps.
Keep making those phone calls.
Continue following your plan.
Remain focused on your goal.
Do what you have to do right now to get to the next level.
Complete every task.
Keep every promise and commitment.
Don't look back.
Let no one weaken your walk of faith and determination.
Remain teachable.
Place yourself in a blessing position by associating with people on-the-grow.
Talk with teachers.
Walk with winners.
Climb with champions.
Study successful people.
Something great is about to happen for you!
Start giving thanks right now before you can even see the outward manisfestation of your prayers and desires.
Everything you do from this day forward will take you further away or closer to your potential for successful living.
-by Dr. Jewel Diamond Taylor, Motivational Speaker & Author
great website by the way! perfect design in every approach.
i was enervated by your 'LINKED-IN' profile (where u will notice i was the only guy to dare give "you" an endorsement - as if I actually worked with you!) ;) _ all very honest musings, actually. i am a very effective international, marketing strategist and have become expert at parsing politics and how (they) affect market behaviour. american racism (as a "thing"...) is very rancid, quite virulent and as u saw with the clever "race-card"- which was an abrogator-organism. (it) created this after the erstwhile 'OJ Trial" -- effectively enabling modern racism.
[ only obama or omar wasow could possibly understand that concept ] ;)
it can recover in any form. it will appear sober and even rational -- and will try to seduce you into compliance ... catch you looking. (Obama's) reaction to the New Yorker magazine was incredibly astute. the attack from "it" was (a) tip of a fuse .. and he snuff'd it by defining it as an attack on Muslims -- which is actually what it is and nothing more ...
brilliant work. the action of the tiger.
Obama's formula: It's the network Technology helped campaign take off — and change the game By Christi Parsons and John McCormick
Tribune reporters 8:13 PM CDT, May 24, 2008
WASHINGTON — Joe Rospars, a young Internet-savvy operative, sat on an unpacked box in his new apartment on the morning of Feb. 10, 2007, excitedly watching two screens. On television, his new boss, Sen. Barack Obama, was announcing that he wanted to be the next president of the United States. On Rospars' laptop, a dashboard of statistics was constantly updating, measuring visitors to the Web site he'd just helped launch. Click after click, a trickle became a flood. Not only would thousands visit that day, but within 24 hours a staggering 1,000 of them would register the formation of an Obama group in their town. "You see ' Idaho for Obama' pop up and you start thinking, 'We might be on to something,' " Rospars recalled. "You could just see it in the first few hours that something was happening."
That moment marked an important convergence, a politician with transformational potential meeting a technology with its own unprecedented possibilities. The Obama campaign would cross many such markers in the months to come: record fundraising of nearly $200 million, colossal crowds of up to 75,000, 1.5 million donors, 4.45 million views of its most viral video. Since that first day, though, architects of the Obama campaign have avoided comparing their milestones to what came before. "We threw out the precedents," Rospars said.
These days, having won a majority of the Democratic Party's elected convention delegates, the Obama team is turning to Part 2 of its quest for the White House. Behind the scenes, the vetting process for potential vice presidential candidates has begun, while staffers make room for a continued stream of new hires. Already, the Michigan Avenue headquarters is getting crowded. Obama's strategic focus is clearly on the fall general election as the story moves beyond a historic primary season.
Defying 'inevitability' When the narrative began that February day on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, it was with a sense of grand ambition that bordered on hubris. Even many fans thought Obama was too inexperienced to win, too small in the face of the political dynasty he was challenging. Like the Illinois forebear who got his start in the same prairie capital, though, Obama had both a message for the times and an understanding of how to deliver it. He, too, was a man meeting his moment—not to mention his medium. "When Abraham Lincoln started out, there was also a sense of inevitability about another candidate," said historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, referring to New York Sen. William Seward. "But he understood the skills it took to beat the more experienced candidate, and he went state to state giving speeches and building a following. That is clearly what Obama has done." From the very beginning, the people crafting Obama's strategy were thinking about exactly that: how their candidate might get around a Democratic power structure that favored rival Sen. Hillary Clinton and talk directly to voters.
Obama and his message already had demonstrated popular appeal. His tour of Africa in 2006 attracted the scrutiny that usually attends presidential visits. His books were best sellers, and fellow Democrats had clamored for him to campaign for them. "We wanted this to be a grass-roots campaign, a campaign of people," said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. Internet raked in funds Most of all, the Obama campaign intended to exploit the growing power of the Internet. They hired a Facebook founder to help run My.BarackObama.com, the campaign's social networking site. They brought on a former journalist to blog. And when a CNN producer asked for access to film a documentary on Obama, the campaign offered her a job doing that for their own Web site. The campaign planned to take in money and information online—but they wanted the conversation to go both ways, to have what they took to calling a "holistic relationship." Two months into the effort, it was clear those 1,000-plus Obama groups would not just make a splash—as had Howard Dean's Internet supporters four years earlier—but would help raise money in unprecedented sums. Obama took in $25 million in the first quarter of 2007 from 104,000 donors, more than half contributing via the Internet, giving Obama instant credibility. One year later, 1.5 million people had contributed.
But the online supporters were doing something else too. In their homes, with their weekend cell phone minutes, on their laptops, some without even getting out of their pajamas, they were campaigning for Obama. The campaign's Web site offered online training for phone-banking and provided supporters with names and numbers of targeted voters. The campaign blasted out responses to criticism in digestible bites, easily forwarded to a supporter's contact list or a friend with a question. "There can be a tendency in campaigns to keep things closely held, or you can accept the risk and move forward," said Plouffe. "Our belief was that personal contact was the important thing." The online groups formed ready-made networks in every state. Staffers landed in those states to help organize. And that would prove crucial to Obama's tactical strategy. Steady despite stumbles In the early days of the campaign, Obama struggled. Reviews of the early debates called Clinton "commanding," while Obama came off as deferential and prone to missteps.
As the campaign churned on, critics wondered whether the junior senator from Illinois was up to the challenge. Last fall was especially rough, as Clinton surpassed Obama in fundraising and outstripped him in national polls. Oddly enough, Obama thinks that is when he began to take off. "After the summer, into the fall, I became much more comfortable talking about why I was running and what particular skills and vision I brought to the race," he told the Tribune the day before his crucial win in the Iowa caucuses. "That, I think, helped clarify my message of change." He tried not to get "too up" when things were going well, he said, nor "too down" when they weren't. "Relative calm has, I think, been embedded in the culture of our campaign," Obama said. There was no spate of firings when things seemed bleak. Obama, Plouffe and top strategist David Axelrod aimed for what Obama called "a steady execution."
Small victories Obama's win in Iowa signaled to potential supporters that he could attract white voters. And his defeat in New Hampshire a few days later was the first hint that this might be a long, drawn-out primary season. The senator watched the disappointing numbers roll in alongside his wife, Michelle, his sister Auma, and Valerie Jarrett, an adviser and close family friend. "People were in shock. We were not prepared for it," Jarrett said. She looked over to see that Obama was going quietly from person to person. When he got to Jarrett, she said, "He put his hands on my shoulders, looked me in the face and said, 'This will prove to be a good thing. ... We are going to have to redouble our efforts.' " No one in politics guessed what would follow.
Obama and Clinton were embarking on a long, rocky road through the primary states, where they would trade victories and split the vote. Even Super Tuesday, Feb. 5, the night the Obamas feared the most, ended with what looked like a draw. Clinton won the grand prize of California, while Obama took more states around the country. In retrospect, however, Super Tuesday was perhaps the pivotal victory for Obama; by failing to knock him off, Clinton opened the door to his strategy of steadily accumulating delegates through small states and caucuses. By the Texas and Ohio primaries a month later, a clear pattern showed Obama was favored among African-Americans, wealthy voters and those with college degrees, while Clinton was more often the choice of older and blue-collar voters as well as white women. Clinton also scored some successes by dismissing Obama's impassioned rhetoric as "just words," with little substance behind them. Along the way, his audiences were large and adoring. One afternoon, before a crowd of 17,000, Obama took a break to blow his nose. The audience applauded.
As crucial as the Internet was to this effort, it could also turn on the candidate. Early on, e-mail folklore developed about Obama's life as a Muslim. The truth — that he is a Christian who has never practiced Islam—was no match in some quarters for the electronic chain letters. The Internet also gave life to the most damaging story to arise about Obama, originally on cable television. The controversial highlights of sermons by Obama's longtime pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., were available on YouTube at all hours. The first YouTube election Now that he is entering the general election, Obama hopes the prairie fire ignited by his announcement in Lincoln's hometown will spread. Ted Sorensen, former speechwriter to John F. Kennedy, thinks it will. "At the root of all this is his remarkable ability to transcend traditional politics and reach across lines—regional, political, racial—just as John F. Kennedy did," said Sorensen, author of the new book "Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History." "When Kennedy, the 'Catholic candidate,' won in Protestant West Virginia, that electrified the country."
What is sometimes missed in Obama's story is that his message of change was ideally suited to the new medium of the Internet, with its appeal to young people and independents. While Dean had had to develop his own video tools, YouTube was up, running and ready to spread everything from Obama's 37-minute speech on race to the award-winning video by will.i.am setting the candidate's words to music. "Obama didn't just defeat any top-down campaign," said Joe Trippi, the original manager of Dean's pioneering campaign. "He beat the best top-down campaign in Democratic Party history, by far. And the Obama campaign puts them on their heels. If they had tried the old way, they would have raised $40 million bucks and been dead." The country has seen this before, Goodwin noted. Obama used more modern tools than Lincoln, she said, but he dealt in the same currency. "It shows there's still a hunger in people," she said, "to be inspired by words."
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Thank you to all and for all that you have done!
Curtis Walker
In an Obama list, someone sent the latest Hillary site feature - a Pop Quiz about Barack Obama.
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/quiz
Here are my thoughts:
A candidate shows their opinion of the voters by how they interact. Senator Obama shows respect, and a belief in the intelligence of the voter. For example, this page, which, I can tell you with my marketing background, is NOT dumbed down: http://factcheck.barackobama.com/. Compare that to the Clinton Quiz, and we can see how the candidates feel about their supporters. Likewise, watching any given speech by Hillary, McCain, or Obama, and you'll see who is using "small" words, talking like talking to children, dumbing down their speech, and who is not. Those who dumb down their speech are the elitists, not the one candidate that speaks to us like intelligent adults.
You can summarize the campaigns as: Senator Obama: "Yes We Can."Senator Clinton: "I Can, But He Can't"Senator McCain: "Of course I'm going to be the next president, so stop bothering me with questions."
The Kerry/Edwards campaign was the first one I got involved with in a big way. After that heartbreak, one of the positive things I put my time into was creating bluebroward.org, which was created as a way of recruiting volunteers who could help win future Democratic races. The Broward County Democratic Executive Committee web site was pretty lame at that point, in terms of offering online tools, and though it's gotten better BlueBroward continues to have an audience.
For the time being, I have to respect the feelings of the Hillary fans who are bluebroward members, but I can still help publicize regional events and recruit volunteers. A few months from now, I hope to be able to hand off a whole list of volunteers and put them to work for the Obama campaign.
