Saturday, January 12, 2008

2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign and Distributed Social Networking

Distributed Social Networking will play a big part in the 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign. While most campaigns have figured out how to grab 'friends' on facebook and target email, they have not yet leveraged the opportunities available from employing Distributed Social Networking. The ability for candidates to communicate with their supporters, and for those supporters to communicate with their friends and other supporters - across the web - is just now becoming a reality. YouChoose is presenting proposals to the candidates that should lead to big improvements in how some of the leading candidates engage their supporters and add to their list of friends.

In the meantime, here's an example of how a candidate is reaching his supporters through a YouChoose distributed Campaign and Forum widget.