Trevor Cook on public relations, social media and politics

Category Archives: US Presidential Election

Obama’s election will prompt a surge in corporate social media

November 6, 2008 – 7:42 pm

There has already been a lot written and spoken about the Obama campaign’s use of social media and social networking. I wrote about it recently and ReadWriteWeb has a good piece today. It has been pointed out that social media alone didn’t win Obama the election and I summarised my own view in this article [...]

By Trevor Cook | Tagged Corporate social media, Howard Dean, Joe Trippi, Obama, socia media, social networking | Comments (2)

Janet Albrechtsen and the bitter end

November 6, 2008 – 12:08 pm

Albrechtsen’s column this morning (“is America a racist nation after all?”) is a sour piece, the heading tells you everything.
Colin Powell was moved to tears. Condoleezza Rice expressed her pride as an African-American, George Bush and John McCain were both gracious in acknowledging the ‘healing’ that Obama’s win will do for America’s centuries old [...]

By Trevor Cook | Also posted in Newspapers | Tagged Albrechtsen, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, culture wars, George Bush, John McCain, Obama, racism | Comments (15)

Condoleezza Rice: ‘as an African-American I am especially proud”

November 6, 2008 – 8:59 am

Embedded video from CNN Video

By Trevor Cook | Tagged African-Americans, Condoleezza Rice, Obama | Comments (0)

Nathan Rees contra mundum

November 6, 2008 – 8:24 am

A friend of mine has this letter in the SMH:
The biggest issues facing Australia are the global economic crisis and climate change.
The Federal Government is spending to stimulate the economy and taking steps to reduce emissions. The Reserve is reducing interest rates to spark consumer spending.
Meanwhile, Nathan Rees is working hard in [...]

By Trevor Cook | Tagged budget, NSW, recession, Rees | Comments (0)

History

November 6, 2008 – 1:44 am

By Trevor Cook | Also posted in Media, Newspapers, Uncategorized | Tagged President Obama | Comments (1)

How Obama won and what it means for political campaigning

November 5, 2008 – 3:20 pm

My piece has just been posted to ABC Unleashed:
President-elect Barack Obama represents the new face of politics in the 21st century.
Obama ran the biggest and best political campaign the world has ever seen and he has re-written many of the rules that political professionals have held dear in the mass media age. And, of course, [...]

By Trevor Cook | Tagged Obama | Comments (1)

53 more polls

November 4, 2008 – 3:58 pm

Realclearpolitics managed to add another 53 polls to its site on Monday (and over 150 in the last four days); there is no lack of data! A dozen national polls with Obama ranging from 5 points up to a massive eleven. There are five Florida polls and this key state is on a knife edge [...]