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Politics in the Digital Age

Leveraging Online Tools for Better Citizen Engagement XI International Seminar on Elections and Political Campaigns
The George Washington University MPA Building, Jack Morton Auditorium Washington, DC March 16, 2010

First Radio President

Coolidge 1923 First President heard Hoover 1929 President-Elect address


Calvin Coolidge 1923 Herbert Hoover 1929

FDR 1933 Golden Age of Radio, NBC national network: 37 markets Fireside chats

First Television President

Truman 1949 Inauguration televised Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower 1955 First televised press conference 1955 Robert Montgomery, news extended to 30 mins 1956 Emmy: Governors Award JFK 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates, 70 million viewers

Week of March 1, 2010

Broadcast TV
Academy Awards (ABC) 23.3 M American Idol (FOX) 13.4 M NCIS (CBS) 11.8 M

Cable TV
Hannah Montana (DISNEY) 3.5 M

WWE RAW (USA) 3.3 M


Spongebob (NICK) 2.9 M Burn Notice (USA) 2.7 M

First Internet President

Clinton Nov 1995 First WH.gov http://clinton.nara.gov

White House 1.8 Launched March 2007

January 30, 2001

Chris Anderson: The Long Tail


January 31, 2001 November 5, 2008

YouTube: Campaign 2004

February 2005 - October 2006

YouTube Oct 2008 Surpasses Yahoo! as worlds #2 search engine

White House 2.0


RSS Text Photos Audio Video

White House RSS

Google Gov Search

Twitter / Twitterfeed September 2007

BarneyCam

Government in iTunes

Platform and Content Sharing

FY2009 Budget

Social Media: From the Inbox to Ballot Box

Evolving Influence

One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters. Increasingly by the general election very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control. Anita Dunn

Congressional

staffers

The average age of congressional staff is 31. Heres what they do:

More than 90% are active online 90% use blogs to help determine constituent opinion 79% of Chiefs of Staff, 66% of senior policy advisers and 65% of LAs read blogs 72% watch videos online 65% use social networking sites 60% prefer to use online resources when preparing their Member for a vote
Source: Edelman

Creating a Groundswell Through Social Advocacy

@SenJohnMcCain

Top Tweets

Top Tweets

MSM vs. New Media vs. CGC

Facebook Constituency

Facebook Constituency

Engagement Through Video

Political Video

Search

3rd position in Google out of 340,000

News Alerts

Scott Brown for US Senate (R-MA)

NASCAR Dot Gov?

White House 2.0

White House Reality Check Flagged

Future of Dot Gov

Mobile
2000
Slow, stationary connections built around my computer 46% adults, 5% broadband, 0% wireless, 10% use cloud, 50% cell phone

2008

Fast, mobile connections built around outside servers /storage 75% adults, 94% teens on Internet, 60% broadband at home, 54% connect wirelessly, 53% use cloud, 85% cell phone
Pew Research, Lee Raine, June 2009

Mobile Growth

Mobile Giving

$5M raised in first 36 hours

Approximately $140k per hour

As word spread, pace quickened to $300k per hour

mobile.whitehouse.gov

Online Community Engagement

Contact Info
David Almacy Senior Vice President Edelman | Digital Public Affairs Washington, DC (202) 326-1706 David.Almacy@edelman.com Twitter @almacy http://CapitalGig.com

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