Web 2.0 and 2008 Presidential Campaigns

People who are following Democratic candidates John Edwards and Barack Obama already know they have launched campaign web sites that use Web 2.0 tools to encourage citizens to participate.

A review of these and other presidential campaign web sites can be found in "Campaigns tread carefully into world of Web 2.0," the title of an online article in Computerworld on February 12, 2007.

The article also mentions that the web sites of Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republicans Sam Brownback and Mitt Romney and suggests that as the campaign progresses these and others will probably adopt more social networking and Web 2.0 tools.

My view is that any social networking groups that organize, even if they are not associated with a specific candidate, should try to make their views known to all of the candidates in the next 21 months. These groups should also strongly encourage every candidate to take a clear stand on important national and global concerns, including ecological and natural resource issues such as Global Warming, before the election.