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Poll: Should President Obama Continue to Use Social Media?

Now elected, should President Obama continue using social media to communicate with the public?

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If you answered “no”, please elaborate why in the comments below.

If you answered yes, which social media service(s) do you think he should use to communicate with the public? (feel free to choose more than one)

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If you have any explanation about why certain social media sites would be better for President Obama than others or you would recommend one not listed, please tell us what you think in the comments.

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    President Obama has a slick new website which includes his blog and a weekly video where he plans to address the public every Saturday morning.
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/weekly_address/
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    I know it's going to sound "passé", but he should also be on Friendster, still a huge community and very active in Asia (even if it's not Obama's primary concern, marketing the Presidency abroad has proven effective with his campaign)
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    Well, I didn't even know people were using it still. When you say Asia Paul, do you mean China or Southeast Asia? It's not popular in Japan is it? Also if he wanted to be internationally focused, wouldn't he want to use Bebo too? Big European and South American user base.
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    You're right, I should have been more precise. I was writing with my iPhone on the train ^^

    In South East Asia, I would say that Friendster is a leader, even if MySpace and Facebook are obviously very present. Friendster has opened offices in various southeastern countries (Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore). Hearing that it is still kinda strong in Japan (ok, nothing compared to Mixi), even if it's fading against newly-comer Facebook.

    As for China, Facebook has had some good successes. There is a government-approved SNS (the name eludes me right now) that is growing rapidly. Same as Facebook: it started as a student thing.

    In Europe, Bebo is popular amongst english-speaking people, i.e. mainly UKI, even if it offers translations. I've read somewhere that people do not engage as much on it, they tend to quickly check it and then go.
    Netlog has been growing in other european markets (well, bar my french friends, they're crazy on Skyrock), as its localization services are well done and engage teenagers not yet able to speak the international language. I think it's one to closely watch.

    The other one that it's often forgotten is hi5, a network I'm not even on I think (what a shame). It works well in the south of Europe, Africa and Latin America (bar maybe in Orkut-land, Brazil). In Asia, Thailand comes to mind, but I don't know about other countries over here.

    I don't see the Obama administration actually considering all these options. Far too time and money-consuming for external PR. They will certainly go the Facebook road. Now, if they want to make friends in some of the parts of the world where some anti-US feelings were high at times, they should think about the chatter on some other SNS.

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    That was a really good description which taught me a lot Paul. Thanks for that. Why wouldn't he use the Chinese QQ.com if he wanted to communicate to Chinese. Also, alwahy.com seems to be an Islamic social media portal he could use.
 
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