If you haven’t heard yet President Elect Obama is going to be delivering a weekly address on youtube in an effort to make the government a bit more transparent. Of course, Obama also wants to continue to reach a wider audience and since more and more people are turning to the internet, so is Obama. Venutrebeat has a great article about the Obama address which I recommend that you read.
Updated: Dan Farber from Cnet also has a great article on Obama using youtube.
If any individual or company still has questions as to whether or not social media is a fad, well, this should give you the answer. When the future president of the United States creates a youtube channel to address the nation, then it’s probably a little more then a fad, don’t you think?
Here is his first address:
What do you think of Obama’s use of social media to reach the world?
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