{"id":504,"date":"2009-03-23T18:04:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T01:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=504"},"modified":"2009-03-23T18:04:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T01:04:28","slug":"president-obama-do-you-like-skittles-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2009\/03\/23\/president-obama-do-you-like-skittles-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr President, do you like Skittles? (DRAFT!!!!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first installment of Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists<\/a> briefly described how Skittles’ Twitter-centric viral marketing campaign caught fire and concluded that one lesson is that activists without a lot of time or money should seriously consider incorporating Twitter in their plans.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 That’s a pretty general conclusion.\u00c2\u00a0 So our next two installments will look at two case-studies in progress.\u00c2\u00a0 You can watch them unfold as they’re happening, or even better get involved and learn by doing.<\/p>\n

This weekend we’ll cover Ask the President<\/em>, which offers poets and activists a chance to propose and vote on questions for White House press conferences.\u00c2\u00a0 As Ari Melber discussed in The People’s Press Conference<\/a>, Ask the President — #askpres for short — will need to create buzz to have a chance at getting their questions asked and answered.\u00c2\u00a0 Activists also need to create buzz to help get their questions voted up.<\/p>\n

The following weekend, we’ll discuss 30 Poets \/ 30 Days<\/a>, <\/em>a project for National Poetry Month in April 1 being organized by my brother, Gregory K of Gottabook<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Three years ago, Greg’s blog post about “Fibs” (Fibonacci Poetry) went viral and got picked up by the mighty Slashdot<\/em> and then the New York Times<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Will lightning strike twice?
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Ask the President<\/h2>\n

With a press conference scheduled for tonight at 8 PM Eastern, Ask the President<\/em> <\/em>is in high gear: the more buzz today, the more likely it is that one of the questions might be asked.\u00c2\u00a0 So it’s a great opportunity to follow along and see what Twitter activism looks like.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 A few suggestions:<\/p>\n