"He's Barack Obama" --a cool "sendable"from JibJab

JibJab leverages the Obama "brand" to promote its e-card Sendables and offers a behind the scenes look at how they produced this cooool Sendable.

I am going "backstage" to see how JibJab does it and will post my findings on their "secret sauce".



Click on the arrow to play and enjoy!

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Obama's inauguration speech - Two ways of looking at it.

The New York Times Visualization Lab produced this "wordle" of President Obama's inauguration speech.



The image below is how Graphic Muralizer Stephanie Crowley "pictured" the speech.



Click on each image to get a better view. Which image do you prefer? I vote for Stephanie's.

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Barack, Inc. - leveraging the President's brand

In very clever play on Obama's use of social networking to catapult him into the presidency, and trading on the popularity of the Obama "brand", Barry Libert and Rick Faulk (Chairman and CEO respectively of Mzinga- a social networking service) have rushed an Obama book into publication that is a not-too-subtle promotion for Mzinga services.

This link to Mzinga is on the landing page of the Barack, Inc blog:



Barack, Inc. blog

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The Fast Company 50 - 2009: Team Obama is Number 1

"The year's most successful startup took a skinny kid with a funny name and turned him into the most powerful new national brand in a generation."

The infographic shown above features an animated timeline chart of key news clips of the Obama campaign.(To see the animation click on the link below.)

The Fast Company 50 - 2009: Team Obama | Fast Company




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The Visual Repertoire of Obama’s Run for the White House

I've been quiescent on this blog for several months due to radiation therapy which sapped my energy and interest in things visual - so, as a restart to my visual journal, i have clipped just a couple of images from a remarkable visual overview of Obama's run for the White House. Published by the Parson's Institute for Information Mapping and originally compiled by the Information Design Studio in Amsterdam.





Click here to scroll through the visual history of Obama's campaign:

The Visual Repertoire of Obama’s Run for the White House

Obama's 'Cybergenic' Edge - Paul Saffo on ABC News

Paul Saffo is a genius at translating his meta-insights into quotable memes.

Here is his take on how Obama stacks up against McCain ABC News: Obama's 'Cybergenic' Edge

I recall a YiTan teleconference call in May of 2007 when Facebook was just emerging as the social network platform. I put the question to the over 80 conferees " is anyone using Facebook?" Only one person said "yes" - and it turned out he was an Obama staffer honing his Cybergenic edge.

As Paul says in concluding his essay:

"I'll bet we will look back from the other side of Nov. 4 and conclude that the single most important factor in this election was the winner's cybergenic edge.

We might even see a Kennedy-Nixon moment before the race is over. But even if we don't, I'll be very surprised if Obama isn't our next president. And when he wins, let us hope that Obama's cybergenic instincts enable the first cybergenic president to govern as effectively as he ran."

Right on, Paul!

Realscoop - pinnochio in color - is Barack telling the truth?

A potentially viral facebook app for recording your FB "friends". - and, maybe, a way to derive Trust Metrics in Social Networks.Thoughts Illustrated: Trust Metrics for Social Networks



To see the Realscoop community site click here RealScoop: Barack Obama before he was running for President