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Neighborhood America launches Connect2Elect to match presidential candidates and voters

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connect2elect.jpgNeighborhood America, an enterprise social network solutions provider, announced the launch of Connect2Elect.com to provide individuals an opportunity to thoughtfully prioritize the issues and beliefs of primary importance to them, and through matching algorithms and enterprise social networking technology, be presented with a visual map illustrating the presidential candidates that are most, and least, aligned with them at a highly individual level.

For an unbiased match, citizens are aligned with candidates based solely on their top ten priorities as they relate to four categories: social issues, political issues, core beliefs and candidate’s personal attributes. Connect2Elect differs from other political social networks by outlining the most important issues to the voting public and eliminating the popularity factor, party lines, titles, or other influencing factors involved in traditional political polls. Neighborhood America will have the ability to capture unique data from large samples with the click of a button, analyzing responses by category or as a whole for the purpose of evaluating what is important to the people, or anticipating voting behaviors.

Originally posted on October 25, 2007 @ 3:57 pm

TechPresident.com launches presidential video forum

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TechPresident.com today launched 10Questions.com, a user-generated presidential video debate, in association with the editorial board of The New York Times and MSNBC.com, and the co-sponsorship of more than forty web sites that span the political spectrum.

10Questions.com gives users the opportunity to submit online video questions addressed to the candidates through a variety of video platforms including YouTube, MySpace, Yahoo and Blip.tv by tagging their video with the word “10Questions.” The 10Questions site will then display those videos and enable the public to vote to determine the ten best submissions. At the end of four weeks, the top ten questions will be submitted to all the major candidates. The candidates will have four weeks to submit un-timed video responses to the questions. As those responses are posted, 10Question.com users will be given the opportunity to vote on whether the candidates have answered the questions to their satisfaction.

Users can vote on as many videos as they like, but may only submit one video; user submissions are due by November 14. The entire project will be
completed on December 31, 2007.

Originally posted on October 22, 2007 @ 1:48 pm

Barack Obama next to participate in MySpace and MTV Presidential Dialogue Series

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obama1.pngMySpace and MTV announced that U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) will be the next participant in their Presidential Dialogue series. The Dialogue with Sen. Obama will take place October 29 at 1:30 pm ET/10:30 am PT on the campus of Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA and will be streamed live on MySpace, MTV’s ChooseOrLose.com and MTV Mobile, and exclusively premiere on air on MTV at 7 pm ET/PT that night. MTV News Correspondents Gideon Yago and Sway Calloway, as well as WashingtonPost.com political reporter Chris Cillizza, will serve as moderators. Industry-leading pollsters John McLaughlin and Geoffrey Garin will return to oversee the real-time polling data and questions submitted via MySpaceIM and Think.MTV.com.

The inaugural MySpace/MTV Presidential Dialogue, with former Senator John Edwards, reached a wide audience on-air, online and on mobile phones. Held last September 27, the event was broadcast live on MySpace and ChooseorLose.com, and since its online premiere, has been streamed approximately 350,000 times. The on-air broadcast (7-8 pm ET) was the top program for viewers aged 18-24 across all of cable for the time period, and was seen by a total of nearly two million viewers overall. Nearly 2,300 questions were submitted for Senator Edwards by online viewers during the course of the one hour Dialogue. Adding to its historical significance, the Dialogue with John Edwards was the first-ever Presidential forum to be broadcast live on mobile phones, via MTV Mobile.

The MySpace and MTV Dialogue series is the first in history to allow a national at home audience the opportunity to respond to candidate’s answers instantaneously – with that feedback piped back into the discussion and used to shape its direction – as well as the ability to pose questions in real-time, via MySpaceIM and ChooseOrLose.com. Throughout the event, online viewers can immediately register their approval or disapproval of a candidate’s responses via a revolutionary online polling tool, powered by Flektor (www.flektor.com), as they watch the Dialogue live. Instant results are displayed on the screen and viewers can compare their opinions to those of the entire community through a “popular vote” function. Poll results are available online live during each event and archived for future viewing.

Originally posted on October 18, 2007 @ 11:05 pm

Obama reaces out to Community Connect members

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obama.pngCommunity Connect Inc. (CCI) announced that presidential candidate Barack Obama has created a member profile on each of the company’s five sites in an effort to excite and engage potential voters. Since going live on October 5, 2007, the success of the campaign has become evident with Senator Obama’s profiles garnering over 200,000 friends. In one week, his profile on BlackPlanet.com garnered more friends than his MySpace and Facebook profiles.

Senator Obama’s campaign approached CCI’s niche social networking communities to facilitate compelling dialogues among passionate constituents. His presence across BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com, AsianAve.com, GLEE.com and Faithbase.com allows his messages to disseminate and circulate among highly targeted niche groups, and in turn, gives those audiences a voice on the issues that concern them.

Senator Obama’s profile includes an active question and answer mechanic, regularly updated blogs, behind-the-scenes photos and new videos from the campaign trail. The profile is updated directly by his official campaigners, and represents a thoughtful, in depth look at his policies.

Originally posted on October 15, 2007 @ 2:23 pm