One Million Strong for Barack

Facebook, a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them, has a group, One Million Strong for Barack, which has the simple goal of getting one million strong in support of the democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama. This group was created on January 16, 2007 by Farouk Olu Aregbe, from Washington, DC and alumni of North Dakota, and currently has 293,058 members. Aregbe set the goal of reaching 250,000 members by February 5th and that goal was reached on February 10th. All of Aregbe’s goals had been met on time previous to this latest goal. Aregbe wants to reach the goal of one million members by May 10th and he is well on his way to reaching it. On the group website, a link has been set up so that any member can make a personal donation directly to Barack Obama. Members are encouraged to make a small donation of $10 and the group has contributed $8,345 from 273 members.

Information technology has been a very important park of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign so far. His campaign staff regularly uses BarackObama.com to post Youtube videos and pictures on Flickr. Obama also has his own Facebook profile. BarackObama.com is regularly updated with news articles and blog entries. Obama’s website is a place where people all around the country and the world can come together and support the presidential candidate. The site is helpful because it is regularly updated and the site is easy to navigate. The use of information technology will play a very important role in the next presidential election and Obama’s website is top of the line.

Whether you join or create your own Facebook group, check out your candidate’s website or write your own blog, you should find a way to support your favorite candidate and start making changes in our government. No matter who the candidate is, information technology will play a huge part in their campaign.