Obama National Delegate Wiki

Posted by Kevin on June 11th, 2008 No Comments

With the impassioned and lengthy democratic primary finally coming to a close, Senator Obama is now the presumptive Presidential nominee for the Democratic Party.

There is a lot of chatter on the Web about how the Senator from Illinois has won the democratic nomination. Political experts are praising Obama’s ability to work from the ground up trough a quintessential grassroots campaign. Obama’s success has been attributed to his adoption of the key online tools of young voters: Facebook, Flickr, Youtube. While Obama may be “the closest thing yet to a GenX” candidate, writer Douglas Rushkoff argues that there is much more Internet Real Estate to be had by any candidate.

I wish I had had the opportunity to tell Mr. Rushkoff that while Obama’s campaign didn’t have a wiki to grant a truly “open-source” democracy, his supporters did. That’s the key difference in this primary race: Senator Obama’s supporters were connected online– not only to Obama, but to one another.

ObamaDelegates.org was created by Suzi LeVine here in Washington State. She wanted a central site where the delegates for Obama in Washington could collaborate and discuss. The wiki she and others created is used to promote their candidacy to travel to Denver and represent their candidate on the Big Day, discuss issues critical to the race, and keep diligent track of important dates and forms.

So popular was ObamaDelegates.org (two weeks old and over 500 members strong), that the site has extended nationally. This has created the chance for other states to join up and help rally around Senator Obama’s bid for the presidency. If you have caught the Obamamania, ObamaDelegates.org may be your kind of place.

Keyword Tags: Web 2.0, Collaboration, General, Wikis

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