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In February 2006 I posted a couple of things about the EU and their communications strategy. At the time Ms. Wallstrom, our Commissioner for communications started a series of initiatives; a white-paper (opens a PDF), a website with a Q&A, her own blog and more recently a YouTube channel with a very "hot" clip...

Today, I found this very interesting article on the Online Journalism Review website about how social media are changing the presidential debate in the US.

The question that remains after the actions, hypes and debates is: are political candidates "ready to surrender their top-down spin control in favor of a truly bottom-up free market of ideas ?" as stated in the OJR article.

I don't know if they are ready or not but I do think that the world moves on without them being ready.... If you look at the spontaneous political actions (US) popping up over the web thanks to people having access to social media then I think politicians will have to understand that their traditional communications methods are not working anymore.

For those who would like to use social media for advocacy purposes here are 2 great links:

Read/Write web listed several tools for non profit organizations to get into the game, from building their online presence to raising money and creating networks online. The article is one to keep and the tools are there to try out.

Media... Communicating is a very powerful thing and in this article, called "Online Media God" you will find more than 400 links to everything related to videocasting, podcasting, imagery etc...

Technorati : EU, Europe, US, Wallstrom, activism, advocacy, annenberg, elections, eutube, obama, podcasting, politics, presidential debate, social media, videocasting, web2.0

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