Next Generation News and Politics. Microsoft Launches Social Media Platform for Politicians. Twitter and Facebook have become important platforms for politicians and public figures to connect with their constituents and fans. Today Microsoft is unveiling TownHall, a social media platform designed to further serve the needs of these political figures. TownHall is part of Microsoft's new Campaign Ready suite of tools and it's essentially a plug-and-play web-based platform — hosted on Windows Azure — that can be used to build sites that support user engagement around campaign topics and encourage fan participation.
The target audience is government officials looking for ways to collect feedback and gauge the interest of their respective communities. Those that employ TownHall can use the platform to support login via Facebook Connect, include poll questions, give visitors the ability to ask and answer questions, and reward participation with badges. The platform is designed so that the topics with the most traction bubble up to the top. Tea party. The Battle of the Blogs .com | 2011 Blog Awards . Best Blogging Blogs of 2011 . Blog Directory. Home – Contoso. 3 Digital Platforms Poised to Change the Conversation. While not as sexy as politician elbow jabbing, the race to develop winning political platforms for the 2012 U.S. election cycle is a hot contest among strategists and programmers.
Following its win in 2008, Blue State Digital is the shop to beat. The company built the dynamic My.BarackObama.com and enabled the president’s campaign to integrate CRM, fundraising, email and other communications, along with organizing tools for their field program. The historic results were so revolutionary that it has since been copied by other candidates, issue groups and consumer marketers, leading to the clogging of countless inboxes with three years worth of cookie-cutter calls to action. Top BSD execs have returned to lead President Obama’s re-election digital strategy, but the market they face now has changed drastically.
Across the political spectrum, creative solutions will have notable implications for the upcoming election, not to mention for issue-based organizers and lobbyists post-election. 1. CBS, 축복의 통로 CBS TV.