Alex's Blog

Did anyone else watch Barack Obama’s Whitehouse.gov Town Hall meeting yesterday online? I thought it was a great extension of the administrations promise to use open, social tools to help communicate with and listen to the American public over the term of this presidency. Full disclosure: Whitehouse.gov is a WebTrends customer and we’re proud of that. This is both an exciting and interesting time and the openness our current administration is driving through the use of technology is inspiring.

Keeping this in mind I’ve learned a lot about online social campaign tactics from the current administration studying their general election campaign, from social tools to data collection and analysis, so thought I would put all of it to the test as the voting period for the Web Analytics Association 2009 Board of Directors Election is now open. And I am running!

Votes will be accepted from now until the close of the voting period, 7:59 PM ET, on Friday, April 10, 2009. And, you can cast your vote for me on their site. (login to the WAA site required, and you have to be a WAA member)

I have outlined some of my experience and thoughts around my nomination and the WAA in general already, which you can also find here. And, keep on the lookout for more campaign movement and news from the WebTrends camp in the coming week. I’ve got a direct line to White House so this should go well (I also have a good sense of humor) !

- Alex