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The Social Media Minute (7-Nov-08)

By John Conroy in Social Media on Nov 7, 2008

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here are the week’s top stories, in scan-friendly format.

This Week:

How Obama Won the Online War
Web 2.0 Summit Updates: Zuckerburg and Yang
Happy 5th Birthday Delicious!
Health 2.0 You Say?
How Will Twitter Make Money #1,000,123
Following the Election on Twitter Sucked

How Barack Obama Won the Online War

We all know that the President-elect has changed the game in terms of how elections are run, embracing the youth vote through the social tools which they use to communicate and raising millions in campaign funds through omnipresent widgets. No serious electoral candidate in future will go to war without having a serious social media strategy, and without thinking seriously about how to coin it from online contributions.