Barack Obama

The 2012 campaign is quickly becoming the season of digital partnerships for legacy media outlets. In the latest such mashup, CNN and Facebook announced a partnership aimed at making Facebook the second screen for CNN election coverage. CNN is no stranger when it comes to experiementing with new technology. It’s hard to forget the network’s Continue Reading →

(Content originally published on KellerFay.) Everyone is talking about the massive amount of money that will be spent on advertising during this presidential election.  But a recent article in the New York Times illustrates that advertising alone will not win the campaign, and that organized, person-to-person persuasion remains critically important. Entitled, “Obama Campaign Banks On High-Tech Ground Game to Continue Reading →

From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program. Read the full story at The New York Times Continue Reading →

The House overwhelmingly approved a measure Tuesday designed to make it easier for growing companies to attract investors and comply with securities laws. The bipartisan measure, strongly backed by both parties and the White House, passed 380 to 41. Read the full story at The Washington Post Read more Top Stories   Continue Reading →

President Obama’s online efforts during his 2008 bid for the White House revolutionized digital campaigns — and if Nielsen’s latest numbers are any indication, his team is working hard for a repeat in 2012. Read the full story at Mashable   See more Top Stories Continue Reading →

It’s no secret that technology at the White House has improved since President Obama took office in 2009. But how bad was it before? It appears the first ever Blackberry having President and his staff had their work cut out for them.  Read the whole story at Computerworld Continue Reading →

The re-election campaign for President Obama is already underway, and is putting a lot of faith in the digirati to help give him an edge. The campaign is opening up a technology office in San Francisco, hoping to capitalize on the city’s talent to give it an edge. Obama is looking to expand on its Continue Reading →

Re-syndicated from MediaBizBloggers.com We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. —Edward Bernays My last essay on the fourth estate garnered more feedback than I have had in a long time. People sent me email generally praising the notion that something is Continue Reading →

The Obama administration came out in opposition to current anti-piracy legislation. The White House is the most recent critic of the Stop Online Piracy Act, vowing to not support legislation that encourages unjustified litigation or restricts the freedoms of expression afforded by the Internet. Read the full article at arstechnica.com Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120116_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] The Obama administration came out in opposition to current anti-piracy legislation. The White House is the most recent critic of the Stop Online Piracy Act, vowing to not support legislation that encourages unjustified litigation or restricts the freedoms of expression afforded by the Internet.  In other news, Continue Reading →