Just came from a meeting of the Social Media Group Boston, which today launched a national effort to document the election using social media technology (blogs, microblogs, podcasts, video and photographs). If you can take a picture with your cell phone or write a sentence, you are invited to join the effort.
SoMeElection08 is a totally non-partisan citizen effort to document "a day in the life" of election '08. And, yes, you can think of it as So-Me-Election for Social Media, or So, me?, or "hey. some election." Your choice.
I think of it as an effort to capture the mood and the feel of the time without an editor. It also shows what can be done with social media technology, which is beyond what the media could do.
During the meeting, I thought of what I would think of as ideal things would be showing what ordinary people are doing or thinking using either photos or words. Some examples:
- A photo of somebody on a street corner.
- A few sentences from a door-to-door election worker as to why he/she feels it is important to volunteer.
- A video clip of a large rally or a video interview with some wildly dressed person at the large rally.
- A short interview with somebody who has signed in voters for the past 30 years about how it has changed.
Join the group at the Ning site where you can sign up.
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