Use of Internet for President-Elect Obama

"Barack Obama built the biggest network of supporters we've seen, using the Internet to do it".

Obama Election Ushering In First Internet Presidency; Pioneering use of Web 2.0 and social-networking technologies by the president-elect's campaign has seemingly transformed politics, and could influence government as well. Nov 5, 2008 pNAInformationWeek, p.NA. Retrieved November 24, 2008, from Academic OneFile via Gale:http://find.galegroup.com.dml.regis.edu/itx/start.do?prodId=AONE

That quote was from an informative and accurate article discussing the Internet and how it affected the recent (2008) presidential election, specifically how President-Elect Obama built the largest network of supporters in history. The article discusses the use of YouTube and other social networking sites and how it worked in Barack Obama’s favor to be on top of the technological changes in our world today, in particular the use of the Internet. During the campaign leading up to his election as president, Obama used the Internet (as well as other tools) to gain supporters, sign up volunteers, and to keep people updated. As the article notes, President-Elect Obama will only continue to build on his success with the Internet, thus people will be more informed than ever before about what is going on in politics and can do so by the simple click of a button. I was personally stuck by the information so readily available during his campaign and that is still available on his web site (http://www.barackobama.com/), where blogs can be read, speeches watched, donations made, and memorabilia purchased. Our next president (44th president) has tapped into something that is the wave of the future, the Internet and all it has to offer. Our politics will never be the same, in part because Barack Obama built the biggest network of supporters ever seen, using the Internet!