Obama’s super duper use of social media for health care reform
Posted on : 05-11-2009 | By : admin | In : Technology
Today, he posted a request on Facebook asking people to contact their representative regarding health reform legislation, which may go to vote as early as tomorrow. This tactic has been used in the past. The user simply enters their zip code or address and is given the name and phone number of their representative and a short script.
But this time, Obama goes a few steps further. First, the site enables users to report how their representative plans on voting and also allows the user to add remarks as they like. So it takes accountability back to the social media realm.

Second, the site publishes the latest calls to Congress, who made them, where they are from and how many calls have been made in total. As of publishing this blog, more than 412,000 call have been made.
Finally, once someone has completed the call, they can post a message back to Facebook and/or Twitter.
Nice job President Obama! Let’s hope it helps.


