McCain Campaign Using LinkedIn
This is one of the best uses of the native feature set in a social media application I've seen from a campaign yet. John McCain is leveraging the questions feature in LinkedIn to invite participation, ostensibly from an "expert" set of individuals. Given the LinkedIn usage stats, his campaign is onto something. I'm curious to see if they incorporate the comments here into the McCain platform or campaing planning. I also wonder if either of the Democrat candidates will reach out in the same way, or if the demographics of LinkedIn seem too upper income business user for them to spend their money that way... which would be their loss I think.
The Q/A Page: http://tinyurl.com/5hvb6q
McCain's Profile: http://tinyurl.com/5ny3p7
UPDATE: John McCain does also accept LinkedIn connections (at least when politely worded) and wisely keeps his connections private.
UPDATE 2: HIllary Clinton is also on LinkedIn: http://tinyurl.com/4pfr7z
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Sen. McCain has come a long way since you wrote this in April. Curious what you think about how his site has evolved.
I saw a nearly identical Q. from Obama on Linked In a few weeks ago and it really rubbed me the wrong way. I probably was grumpy for one reason or another, but I'd much prefer to see this come from some entity like "obama for president" than positioning it that it actually came from Obama himself.