Whose tweets are these anyway? (What happens when election campaign tweets get deleted?)
Today, there was a bit of a flurry of tweets after the official Twitter account by SPD candidate for chancelor, Peer Steinbrück, sent this tweet: … and then…
Category: campaigns
Drumbeat Berlin
Yesterday Mozilla held an event in Berlin to build ground support for their new open web initiative Drumbeat. For the super-brief version of what Drumbeat is all about,…
Support Creative Commons (Campaign)
As you might know, I’m a big fan of Creative Commons (CC), a very easy way to share your content online and thus contribute to an ever-growing pool…
German Election Voter Mobilization Videos
With only a bit more than a week to the German Bundestagswahl (federal elections), it’s time for a brief recap of the (supposedly viral) videos that have popped…
German Young Voter Campaign Copies U.S. Don’t Vote Video
All of them are looking the same. In the Imperial Army that’s probably good. In political campaigning, not so much. Now here I’m in a bit of a…
Social Media: Not about marketing, but changing the company
Just broadcasting with more & smaller megaphones: Not the way you want to go. There’s one good thing about the live-streamed and much discussed Vodefone press conference where…
Obama for Germany, or How To Run An Online Campaign for the German Federal Elections
Since I started working on the online campaign for the German federal elections, I haven’t blogged about it here. (Although I was interviewed twice, by American PoliticsMagazine and…