Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Social media and politics

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The popularity of social media has surfaced in the the Australian Federal election with Kevin Rudd creating a MySpace account. John Howard folllowed suit soon after appearing on YouTube. In the USA candidate Barack Obama has over 161,000 supporters on MySpace and an interesting part of the election focuses on the importance social media. This is discussed in the article "Will the 2008 USA election be won on Facebook?" which can checked out at this address: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/05/01/election.facebook/

Social media - It's time to get involved!