It's almost a year since President Obama's election, but there is still a LOT of interest in the staggering success of Obama for America (OFA). If the ingredients (the content) aren't tasty, you're still going to have a horrible dinner." - Scott Goodstein, External Online Director, Obama for America Bad content is bad content.

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Researcher Aaron Rich reports that most of Obama's campaign troops plan to remain engaged with the incoming Obama Administration and mobilize others in support of his agenda. Things are clearly different now, with Obama's base (and McCain's too, to a lesser extent) unwilling to shrink into the background. email vs.

If you are trying to figure out Millennials (the 18-29 year old generation), here from Pew Research is the study you’ve been waiting for. On the one hand, Millennials gave 66% of their vote to Obama, and in the process erased the usual turnout gap between younger and older generations. The Millennials: Confident. Connected.

How Obama did it with Digital – Marketing Profs. The Social Pulpit: Barack Obama’s Social Media Toolkit – Edelman. About a year ago, well before the era of re-tweeting, I wrote a post entitled “ Social Media Document Garage Sale &# which received quite a bit of attention according to my blog stats at the time.

For example, in the inaugural edition of the Announced Gifts Alert, you’ll find the ten organizations that were the recipients of President Obama’s $1.4 Tags: Don't Miss these Posts charities fundraising major donors nonprofit management nonprofits philanthropy research million Nobel Peace Prize award money.

The day before President Obama made his first “foreign” visit to meet with Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper we received from the FLA Group in Ottawa their sixth annual poll of direct mail charitable giving behavior of Canadians. donors. Here’s the topline findings of the FLA Group’s poll. You can see the full report by clicking here.

Here from Pew Research is — for my money — the definitive report on the role of the internet in last year’s election. Among internet users, 15% of Obama supporters made a contribution online, while 6% of McCain supporters did so. Fully 45% of internet users went online to watch a video related to the campaign.

More important, this multi-media communication turned into a pile of gold for the Obama Campaign, i.e. know you’re not Obama. Help them to spread the word by building a charity widget , forwarding your emails , and sharing your research. (This post is also archived on www.emailforimpact.com.) over $600 million in funds raised.

Hi Jocelyn, In light of Obama's decision to include $70 million in funding for neglected tropical diseases in his Global Health Budget , I thought you might be interested in speaking with X, Managing Director of Y. But I'm not a newspaper with a research staff. It's official. I'm a publisher and here's how I know. via my blog. Thanks!