Tag Archives: Politics

Why Dad is Blogging (And Why I’m Helping)

By Lee Aase | Published: October 15, 2008
As Lee LeFever has noted, mixing politics and education isn’t a good idea, though someone should break the news to people like Ward Churchill, who rant about their personal political views at taxpayer expense. (Come to think of it, I guess the governor of Colorado has communicated that to Churchill.) That’s why, although I’ve been [...]
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Obama, McCain Both Have “Girls”

By Lee Aase | Published: September 1, 2008
In his analysis of Barack Obama’s use of social media in Social Media 302, Associate Professor Scott Meis called attention to a key difference between this campaign cycle and those of the past: In the past, a campaign team may have overreacted to a video such as Obama Girl or been concerned about not having [...]
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Social Media 302: Barack Obama’s Social Media Strategy

By Lee Aase | Published: August 31, 2008
In Social Media 301, we examined the McCain campaign’s use of the Web, and invited an associate professor to provide a similar analysis for the Obama campaign. Scott Meis, a SMUGgle from Chicago, has risen to the challenge with Analyzing Barack Obama’s Social Media Strategy. Here’s an excerpt: Visit any of Obama’s networking tools and [...]
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Social Media 301: GOP and McCain Use of Web

By Lee Aase | Published: August 30, 2008
No campaign has used the Web as effectively as Barack Obama’s has, as his record-setting fundraising totals testify. He’s the second-most popular person on Facebook, after Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps. I have invited any SMUGgle with first-hand experience of the Obama on-line campaign (and who got the early-morning text message last Saturday about the Biden [...]
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Obama, Biden and a Call for a SMUG Associate Professor

By Lee Aase | Published: August 23, 2008
It turns out that mainstream media still got the scoop on Sen. Obama’s choice for VP, despite the campaign promise to break the news to supporters first via SMS and e-mail. Here’s the AP story: Obama’s decision leaked to the media several hours before his aides planned to send a text message announcing the running [...]
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