Headline, October08, 2013

^^^ !!! *** ELECTIONEE​RING 

& TECHNOLOGY : 

HIP -HELP- HORRAY *** !!! ^^^

!WOW! : The World Students Society Computers-Internet-Wireless , owned by all the students of the world, with one  -share-peace-piece- for each and every student,  would soon be announcing the warm ups of its.

Worldwide Elections to elect  ''Students Leaders''  to their Honours. 

This then is first Arrow across your bow!.

Grassroots event and more  -and details on it, in later posts that will soon follow. In the meantime, and for now, let me give you a primer sweep on abstractions and visualization  to get your imagination soaring.

President Barack Obama's  Arlington, Va., campaign office looked a lot like a kindergarten classroom, with butcher paper, tempera paint and colored marker.

 But one Saturday morning, in 2012, Student  Ian Redman, a 19 year old field organizer wearing Converse high-tops patterned after the American flag, sat there glimpsing the future of politics in his hand.

''This is what is really cool,'' said the Wisconsin native to a handful of volunteers around him, who all looked down at their smart phones.

The volunteers tapped along on their individual screens, exploring deeper into the electioneering app that the Obama Campaign had released that August. 

Tap one button and there are forms to register voters, automatically tailored to the precinct that the phone and its users are in.

Tap another and there is a way for donors to give money using the device. Tap a third and there are locally tailored factoids,  Twitter messages and other social-media links that can easily be shared with friends.

Tap a fourth and suddenly election workers are looking at a Google map of the neighborhood around them, with a little blue flag at each house where the Obama Campaign wants a door knocked. 

Another tap produces sample scripts for approaching voters, complete with first names for residents of the flagged houses.

''If a volunteer is hanging out on a Saturday and they want to go canvassing but they are not really sure where to go canvassing,'' Redman explained, ''they can click  '' Load households in this area' and it pulls a list from their general radius.''

Just as important as the fieldwork it facilitates, the app helps the campaign build and refine its most valuable asset : its database. 

All the information helping canvassers is tied in real time to the campaign's main voter list, ''Vote Builder'' , so no two people are sent to the same address.

The phones prompt volunteers to report back to the main database how the door knock went, recording each household as committed voter, an undecided one or a foe of the President, so future communications like direct mail can be targeted.

Not so long ago, when Obama mounted what was a cutting edge campaign, the U.S. was living in another technological age. Twitter was a geek's pastime. Facebook was used by fewer than 40 million Americans, compared with over 180 million plus today. Smart phones were still largely a professional luxury.

But in the later cycle, virtually every American voter not only had a phone but also increasingly used it to go online. And with this transformation, came the political shift, that was very very huge. 

''It's not a one-trick pony anymore. It's a Swiss Army Knife,'' says Peter Pasi, a Republican Digital Consultant who worked most recently for Rick Santorum's presidential campaign. '' Everything you want to do online you can do mobile.''  .   

The environment soon produced a blizzard of innovations, many of which got tested for the first time in President Obama's  last campaign. Obama camp soon and then, deployed a new program Quick Donate, that allowed people to give repeat donations by simply sending the number of dollars by text messages.

In no time, the Federal Election Commission went on track to allow cell phone carriers to serve as middlemen for low-dollar donations, eliminating the need to enter credit-card information even for the first donation.

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With respectful dedication to the march of Democracy, Liberty and Freedom.

With warm and respectful dedication to President Barack Obama. 

See Ya, Sir, on the World Students Society Computers-Internet-Wireless :!The LightBox !

Good Night & God Bless!

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