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Sep 08 2008

Social Media and 2008 Canadian Election: A Conversation with Amber Mac

Posted by: buzz in 2008 canadian election, geek, politics

This is the latest in a series of posts examining social media, social networking and how the tools are being used in the 2008 Canadian Federal Election Campaign.

I am working on an article about social media and the Canadian campaign for 24hrs this week. I’ve been hitting up some of the best SocMed minds in the country, this afternoon I got to grab 5 minutes out of Amber Mac’s day and we chatted about how Obama is using social media vs the Canadian parties.

Our conclusion - nice try Canada, but it’s too little and waaaaay too late.

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3 Responses to “Social Media and 2008 Canadian Election: A Conversation with Amber Mac”
  1. gsmaverick says: September 8th, 2008 at 6:11 pm

    I agree that this Web 2.0 stuff is mediocre at best. Obama rally shows us how it’s done.

  2. Ryan Cousineau says: September 9th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    This series of posts naively presupposes that social media systems are an efficient method for communicating with actual voters.

  3. Canadian Election Campaigns Join Web 2.0 | cyberbuzz says: September 10th, 2008 at 7:34 am

    [...] Here is an audio stream of the full interview with Amber Mac [...]

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