Sarah Palin will this week address a gathering of right wing bloggers and online activist at the RightOnline conference in Las Vegas. Republicans are hoping that the two day event will help harness the power of social media and digital activism and give President Obama a serious headache in his fight for re-election in November.

The right love the digital savvy former vice presidential who has shown a deft ability to harness social media and make herself the undisputed digital queen of the right. In the process she has built up millions of online fans and followers. Read More »

Women are quietly shaping the world of social media by using it, running it, and reporting on it. So on International Women’s Day it seemed apt to highlight a few women blazing a social trail in various ways. Read More »

YouTube has launched a new politics channel, as presidential candidates in the United States gear up for the 2012 race to the Whitehouse.

YouTube Politics will feature the latest campaign ads and speeches from both Democratic and Republican candidates, as well as all the parodies, as witnessed by Tina Fey’s uncanny portrayal of Sarah Palin in 2008. Read More »

With November 2012 not too far down the road, politicians who haven’t gotten their social media acts together could very well be in for a rude awakening.

You see, while it still takes getting out in the public and kissing babies, going on national television and debating your rivals, and seeing just about every hotel there is nationwide, politicians who have not endorsed social media as a viable weapon to win their respective office, may be the subjects of tweets or shares on how they lost their race. Read More »

If you want to know how important social media is becoming in politics, particularly in the US as a presidential election looms and debt battle has raged, you only have to look at the battle being fought in social media.

The White House took its debt battle to Twitter and now presidential candidate and former House speaker, Newt Gingrich, has been accused of adding hundreds of thousands of fake Twitter followers to his account to give him a whopping 1.3 million followers. Read More »

Celebrities seem to be incredibly inventive in finding new ways to have the phrase ‘social media blunder’ flung in their general direction, so congratulations to Sarah Palin for the latest — a fake Facebook account.

Lou Sarah likes Sarah Palin: amen!

The fake Facebook account was exposed by the Wonkette blog, which is claiming that it has been set up using Sarah Palin’s Gmail address.

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Barack Obama and his team are ramping up their social media efforts to get the president’s agenda out following his State of the Union address.

The Obama team will mix traditional events and political appearances with outreach via Facebook, Twitter and Google YouTube. It is almost all something of a test as the administration gears up for re-election in 2012, but what’s clear at the moment is that the next big thing in digital and social media campaigning has not yet emerged. Read More »

Sarah Palin is facing a barrage of criticism for some of her tweets and Facebook activity and its use of violent metaphors in wake of the tragic shootings at the weekend in Arizona that left six dead and 14 injured by a anti-government activist.

Palin on her Facebook page has a map “Don’t Get Demoralized! Get Organized! Take Back the 20!” that features rifle-like cross hairs on states home to politicians who voted in-favour of Barrack Obama’s health plan including Arizona where US Congress woman Gabrielle Giffords was shot on Saturday in Tucson by Jared Lee Loughner. Read More »

Is this an album you would buy? Josh Groban, the grammy award winning  pop to classical singer/actor, singing Kanye West Tweets on the on Jimmy Kimmel show. It is genius.

It’s like a great viral campaign for a product that doesn’t yet exist…but which I am betting will probably exist in some form or other due to the huge success of this YouTube video with 1.5 million views racked up so far. Read More »

Oh dear. Sarah Palin has come under fire for joining the mightily swollen ranks of  those celebrities / well-knowns who manage to make mangling the English language on Twitter look as easy as eating breakfast in the morning.

Mrs Palin, who often utilises her Twitter account to interact with her 196,854 supporters, posted a message that called on Muslims to ‘refudiate’ a mosque planned as part of an Islamic cultural centre near New York’s Ground Zero. See the snapshot of the Tweet to the left there.

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