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Elections 2008 -- Getting Out the Vote: Text Messages and Political Campaigns

Matt Bieber
Courtesy of Matt Bieber
Date: Monday, 19 November 2007
Time: 9:00 a.m. EST (1400 GMT)

 

In a fast-paced technological environment, every political candidate is looking for an edge on how to mobilize voters. Please join Matt Bieber of Mobile Commons, a mobile messaging software firm, to discuss the way political campaigns are using targeted text messaging and other new media techniques to reach, influence and interact with young voters in the United States and abroad.

Guest Biography: Matt Bieber is the director of mobile community for Mobile Commons, a firm that makes software that allows organizations to create and manage their own mobile messaging campaigns. Mobile Commons works with campaigns of every size -- including those of leading presidential candidates, big city mayors and contenders for local office -- as well as nonprofits, advocacy groups and corporations. Before joining Mobile Commons, Bieber was finance director for a congressional campaign in Pennsylvania.

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