Mobile Apps for Political Campaigns and Advocacy, with Thomas Peters
Social Media and Politics
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What's the Connection Between the Online and the Offline?
The app allows users to see if there are other supporters in their area. Because it's a social network, they can simply choose to become friends and then meet up offline. One of my favorite features we built was for a candidate running for governor in Tennessee. He would invite people on the app to come and run a segment of that with him. And then they could use the GPS on theapp to track how many miles they had gone with him.
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