Ask Obama
Thursday 26th March 2009 at 12:46 pmWe’ve been following the Obama web presence closely and can’t help but feel flattered that they’re using a similar feature we introduced to Webcameron back in its day.
‘Ask David’ was a really popular feature that gave the public a platform to address David Cameron directly. It allowed anyone to register, put forward a question or vote for a question to be answered by David personally. In the true spirit of Webcameron it allowed access to David in a transparent and sociable way. A recent article in The Times quoted Obama’s web guru, Thomas Gensemer as saying “In its day WebCameron was cute, it came across as authentic. That’s a good use of the online media to personalise your candidate.”
‘Ask David’ worked really well for Webcameron and we think ‘Open for Questions‘, the Obama equivalent, will work well for Obama too.
Obama’s ‘Open for Questions’
Webcameron’s ‘Ask David’
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