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David PlouffeFebruary 6, 2010
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Welcome to our third program of the season at The Richmond Forum.
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David PlouffeDemocracy Meets Technology
February 6, 2010
Lead Patron
Host Patron
Producer Patron
Producer Patron
Dominion Digital
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Susan Greenbaum
Ms. Greenbaum
Bill ChapmanExecutive DirectorThe Richmond Forum
Chris LittleFounding Principal & Chief Executive OfficerDominion Digital
David Plouffe
Fifteen Minute Intermissionfor Collection of Audience Questions
Mr. Chapman
Mr. Plouffe and Kelly O’Keefe
Mr. Chapman
Opening program
National Anthem
Opening remarks
Welcome and introduction
of tonight’s speaker
Presentation
Remarks and introduction
of tonight’s moderator
Audience Questions
Closing Remarks
Tonight’s Lead Patron
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Dominion Digital is a regional management and technology consulting firm headquartered in Richmond. Founded in 1997, the firm has earned a reputation for providing right-sized solutions to complex business challenges and thus rapidly delivering value to its clients. Dominion Digital partners with progressive executives to bring focus, direction, and momentum to high-priority business initiatives.
Dominion Digital provides Mid-Atlantic companies a best-value alternative to large national consulting firms. Known for our process and technology leadership, we have helped scores of companies realize dramatic gains in business process efficiency, productivity, and value for their customers. We help our clients achieve these goals with an integrated approach that spans business operations, marketing, and technology.
We believe that the secret to success in any economy is empowering employees to live balanced lives and remaining committed to our communities. Earlier this year, Dominion Digital was named to Outside magazine’s annual “Best Places to Work” list of 30 top employers across the United States. Dominion Digital also received the Employer of Choice award for small-sized businesses in the annual Employer All Star Awards hosted by the Richmond Human Resources Management Association and the Greater Richmond Chamber.
As a community citizen, Dominion Digital is privileged to support organizations that enrich and benefit our communities. In 2009, with guidance and involvement from our employees and clients, we supported over 50 organizations. One of these organizations is the Virginia Public Access Project, a non-profit group that demonstrates how technology can improve public understanding of money’s role in Virginia politics. Dominion Digital provided pro bono consulting services to VPAP to improve their operations and technology, enabling them to deliver more accurate and timely information to the general public.
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Tonight’s speaker is credited as the behind-the-scenes mastermind of Barack Obama’s game-changing presidential campaign and victory in November of 2009.
As the president has remarked, “David is a very unassuming guy. He’s not flashy. He’s not loud. He doesn’t wear his brilliance on his sleeve.” Yet it is his unassuming brilliance that recently compelled The Daily Beast to name David Plouffe “one of the Decade’s Smartest People.”
In tonight’s program, Plouffe discusses how the campaign he managed was able to smartly use technology to mobilize more than 13 million Americans into active campaign involvement, and how these new technologies will forever impact democracy and the political process in America. In his words, the revolutionary tactics employed during the Obama campaign “will soon look like Jurassic Park.”
His appearance comes on the heels of the November publication of his book The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory and numerous television appearances regarding the book and the campaign.
Born in 1967, Plouffe grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. He attended the University of Delaware from 1985 to 1988, but left without a degree to explore a career in politics. He joined the re-election campaign of Iowa Senator Tom Harkin in 1990 and later worked as state field director for Harkin’s unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992. In 1994, he managed the U.S. Senate campaign of Delaware Attorney General Charles Oberly, who lost to incumbent William Roth.
In 1995, Plouffe was campaign director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee. In 1996, he managed the successful campaign of Bob Torricelli to fill Bill Bradley’s New Jersey Senate seat. From 1997 to 1998, Plouffe served as deputy chief of staff for House minority leader Dick Gephardt. From 1999 to 2000, he was executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, leading a national campaign that raised a record $95 million for House races across the country.
In 2000, Plouffe joined the Chicago political consulting firm of AKPD Message and Media—founded in 1984 by David Axelrod, now senior advisor to President Obama. In 2004, he became a partner. Plouffe and Axelrod worked together on Barack Obama’s 2004 Illinois Senate campaign—the beginning of an association that continued in the 2008 presidential race.
Plouffe was instrumental in the formation of Organizing for America, a community organizing project announced by President Obama in January 2009 in support of the White House’s agenda for change. Plouffe worked closely with Democratic National Committee Chairman and then Virginia governor Tim Kaine in setting up the project under the umbrella of the DNC.
Plouffe and his wife Olivia Morgan, herself a political advisor, live in Washington, D.C. with their son and daughter.
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David Plouffe
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Tonight’s moderator, Kelly O’Keefe, has been a marketing innovator for over 20 years. Prior to becoming managing director and professor of the VCU Brandcenter, Kelly led O’Keefe
Marketing, a pioneer in digital marketing and branding. The agency was named Agency of the Year by Adweek Southeast, and Kelly was named Virginia Entrepreneur of the Year and Richmond Ad Person of the Year.
Kelly has been a strategic brand advisor to clients like GE, ESPN, Walmart, Hamilton Beach, Sesame Workshop, UPS and The Home Depot. He has served as a founding board member of the VCU
Brandcenter and the Ad:Tech conference and is a board member of the Future of Advertising Project at Wharton. Kelly’s past board involvement includes Southern Technology Council, September 11 Victims’ Fund, Virginia Council of CEOs, Boys & Girls Clubs of Richmond, St. Joseph’s Villa, Trinity Episcopal School and several corporations.
Kelly’s commentaries on branding have been featured in media like CNBC, CNN/fn, MSNBC, Fox, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, BusinessWeek, Brandweek, Time, U.S. News, Advertising Age, The Washington Post and the LA Times.
The VCU Brandcenter was named the top advertising program by Creativity magazine and received the 4A’s O’Toole award for the Best Advertising School.
Susan Greenbaum graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, was a Fortune 500 corporate officer and now signs her tax returns as a singer-songwriter. She has released four CDs
and won several national songwriting awards, most recently the Smithsonian Songwriters Award in 2009. Billboard Magazine has twice featured Susan, calling her “a startlingly adept writer” with a voice that is “a strong and clear delight.” Susan, a
Kansas City native, focuses her songwriting on intelligent, meaningful lyrics wrapped in catchy melodies in a variety of styles, and she performs solo, duo and with her band. Susan also shares
her music with many worthy causes around Richmond.
Visit www.susangreenbaum.com to hear her music. She also has CDs available in the lobby tonight.
Accompanying Susan is percussionist, drummer and drum instructor Chris Parker. Chris is a graduate of Shenandoah Conservatory of Music and the drummer in Susan’s band; he has set the beat for several shows at Barksdale Theater and Swift Creek Mill Playhouse, and he has also played conga in the Drums No Guns outreach program for inner-city youth.
Tonight’s musical performance is made possible by the generous support of Moore Cadillac Company.
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The Internet’s Role in Campaign 2008
By Aaron Smith, Research Specialist, Pew Internet & American Life Project
Some 74% of internet users—representing 55% of the entire adult population—went online in 2008 to get involved in the political process or to get news and information about the election. This marks the first time that a Pew Internet & American Life Project survey has found that more than half of the voting-age population used the internet to get involved in the political process during an election year.
Several online activities rose to prominence in 2008. In particular, Americans were eager to share their views on the race with others and to take part in the online debate on social media sites such as blogs and social networking sites. Among the key findings of our survey:
Nearly one in five (18%) internet users •posted their thoughts, comments or questions about the campaign on an online forum such as a blog or social networking site.
Fully 45% of internet users went online •to watch a video related to the campaign.
One in three internet users forwarded •political content to others. Indeed, the sharing
of political content (whether writing and commentary or audio and video clips) increased notably over the course of the 2008 election cycle. While young adults led the way in many political activities, seniors were highly engaged in forwarding political content to their friends and family members.
Young voters continued to engage •heavily in the political debate on social networking sites. Fully 83% of those age 18-24 have a social networking profile, and two-thirds of young profile owners took part in some form of political activity on these sites in 2008.
The relative importance of the internet also continued to grow within the overall political media ecosystem. Among the entire population (internet users and non-users alike) the internet is now equal to newspapers and roughly twice as important as radio as a source of election news and information. Among internet users and young adults, these differences are even more magnified.
Additionally, online political news
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8Candidate Barack Obama’s ever-present Blackberry became a symbol of the new American political campaign. (AP Photo)
Obama Campaign Highlights
More than 13 million email addresses •collectedUpwards of 7,000 email messages sent• More than 1 billion emails hit in-boxes •
consumers are delving deeply into the long tail of online political content —nearly half of online political news consumers visited five or more distinct types of online news sites this election cycle. However, this deeper involvement may change the way voters view online news content. Voters are increasingly moving away from news sites with no point of view, and towards sites that match their own political viewpoints—and this is especially true of those who delve deepest into the world of online political content.
Due to demographic differences between the two parties, McCain voters were actually more likely than Obama voters to go online in the first place. However, online Obama supporters were generally more engaged in the
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online political process than online McCain supporters. Among internet users, Obama voters were more likely to share online political content with others, sign up for updates about the election, donate money to a candidate online, set up political news alerts and sign up online for volunteer activities related to the campaign. Online Obama voters were also out in front when it came to posting their own original political content online—26% of wired Obama voters did this, compared with 15% of online McCain supporters.
Reprinted from The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
throughout the world Over 1 million text message subscribers• Upwards of 2 million profiles created on •My.BarackObama.com (MyBO) 45,000 grassroots volunteer groups created •on MyBO 200,000 offline events organized on MyBO• More than 3 million phone calls placed using •the MyBO calling platform Over 400,000 blog posts on MyBO•3 million online donors• 6.5 million online donations resulting in •over $500 million 6 million online donations were $100 or less; •averaging $80/donation 70,000 people created personal fundraising •pages generating $30 million in contributions 3.2 million Facebook supporters; 5.2 million •clicked “I Voted”
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Whether they take place on the internet or off, traditional political activities remain the domain of those with high levels of income and education.
Contrary to the hopes of some advocates, the internet is not changing the socio-economic character of civic engagement in America. Just as in offline civic life, the well-to-do and well-educated are more likely than those less well off to participate in online political activities such as emailing a government official, signing an online petition or making a political contribution.
In part, these disparities result from differences in internet access—those who are lower on the socio-economic ladder are less likely to go online or to have broadband access at home, making it impossible for them to engage in online political activity. Yet even within the online population there is a strong positive relationship between socio-economic status and most of the measures of internet-based political engagement we reviewed.
At the same time, because younger Americans are more likely than their elders to be internet users, the participation gap between relatively unengaged young and much more engaged middle-aged adults that ordinarily typifies offline political activity is less pronounced when it comes to political participation online. Nevertheless, within any age group, there is still a strong correlation between socio-economic status and online political and civic engagement.
There are hints that forms of civic engagement anchored in blogs and social networking sites could alter long-standing patterns that are based on socio-economic status.
In our August 2008 survey we found that
33% of internet users had a profile on a social networking site and that 31% of these social network members had engaged in activities with a civic or political focus—for example, joining a political group, or signing up as a “friend” of a candidate on a social networking site. That works out to 10% of all internet users who have used a social networking site for some sort of political or civic engagement. In addition, 15% of internet users have gone online to add to the political discussion by posting comments on a website or blog about a political or social issue, posting pictures or video content online related to a political or social issue, or using their blog to explore political or social issues.
Taken together, just under one in five internet users (19%) have posted material about political or social issues or used a social networking site for some form of civic or political engagement. This works out to 14% of all adults—whether or not they are internet users. A deeper analysis of this online participatory class suggests that it is not inevitable that those with high levels of income and education are the most active in civic and political affairs. In contrast to traditional acts of political participation—whether undertaken online or offline—forms of engagement that use blogs or online social network sites are not characterized by such a strong association with socio-economic stratification.
In part, this circumstance results from the very high levels of online engagement by young adults. Some 37% of internet users aged 18-29 use blogs or social networking sites as a venue for political or civic involvement, compared to 17% of online 30-49 year olds, 12% of 50-64 year olds, and 10% of internet users over 65. It is difficult to measure socio-economic status for
Civic Engagement Onlineby Aaron Smith, Research Specialist, Pew Internet & American Life Project
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the youngest adults, those under 25, because many of them are still students. This group is, in fact, the least-affluent and well-educated age group in the survey. When we look at age groups separately, we find by and large that the association between income and education and online engagement re-emerges—although this association is somewhat less pronounced than for other forms of online political activism.
The impact of these new tools on the future of online political involvement depends in large part upon what happens as this younger cohort of “digital natives” gets older. Are we witnessing a generational change or a life-cycle phenomenon that will change as these younger users age? Will the civic divide close, or will rapidly evolving technologies continue to leave behind those with lower levels of education and income?
Those who use blogs and social networking sites as an outlet for civic engagement are far more active in traditional realms of political and nonpolitical participation than are other internet users. In addition, they are even more active than those who do not use the internet at all.
And those who use blogs or social networking sites politically are much more likely to be invested in other forms of civic and political activism. Compared to those who go online but do not post political or social content, or to those who do not go online in the first place, members of this group are much more likely to take part in other civic activities such as joining a political or civic group, contacting a government official or expressing themselves in the media. Only when it comes to making a contribution to a place of worship are the differences among these groups quite minimal.
The internet is now part of the fabric of everyday civic life. Half of those who are involved in a political or community group communicate
with other group members using digital tools such as email or group websites.
Just over one-third of Americans (36%) are involved in a civic or political group, and more than half of these (56%) use digital tools to communicate with other group members. Indeed, 5% of group members communicate with their fellow members only using digital technologies. At the forefront is email—fully 57% of wired civic group members use email to communicate with fellow group members. This makes email nearly as popular as face-to-face meetings and telephone conversations for intra-group communication. In addition:
32% of internet users who are involved •in a political or community group have communicated with the group using the group’s website, and 10% have done so via instant messaging.
24% of online social network site users •who are involved in a political or community group have communicated with the group using a social networking site.
17% of cell phone owners who are •involved in a political or community group have communicated with the group via text messaging on a cell phone or PDA.
Respondents report that public officials are no less responsive to email than to snail mail. Online communications to government officials are just as likely to draw a response as contacts in person, over the phone or by letter.
Individuals who email a government official are just as likely to get a response to their query—and, more importantly, to be satisfied with the response they receive—as are those who get in touch with their elected officials in person, by phone or by letter.
Among those who contacted a government official in person, by phone or by letter, 67% received a response to their query. This is little
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organizations are far more likely to take place offline. Some 30% of political donors gave money online, compared to just 12% of charitable donors. Interestingly though, charitable donors seem more willing than political donors to make large contributions over the internet. Offline political donors were nearly three times as likely as online donors to make a contribution of more than $500 to a political candidate or party: 8% of those who made political donations offline contributed more than $500, compared with just 3% of online donors who gave a similar amount. In contrast, online and offline charitable donors were equally likely to make such large contributions.
Reprinted from The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
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different from the 64% of those who received a response after sending a government official an email. Similarly, 66% of individuals who contacted a government official by phone, letter or in person were satisfied with the response they received, which is again little different from the 63% who were satisfied with the response to their email communication.
Those who make political donations are more likely to use the internet to make their contributions than are those who make charitable donations; however, large political donations are much less likely to be made online than are large charitable donations.
Compared to political donations—that is, contributions to a political candidate or party or any other political organization or cause—donations to non-profit and charitable
Social Media Glossary
Blog – An online journal that’s updated on a regular basis with entries that appear in reverse chronological order. Blogs can be about any subject. First published by invidividuals, blogs are now also commonly published by corporations, news media, and other organizations.
Micro-blogging – A form of blogging where the entries/posts are limited to a certain number of characters or words. Example: Twitter.
Micro-philanthropy – Donating in small amounts ($1, $5, $10, $20)
Multimedia – Media and content in different forms such as videos, pictures, etc.
Online community – A group of people using social media tools and sites on the internet.
SMS – Short Message Service, a system that allows the exchange of short text-based messages between mobile devices. Also known as “texting.”
Social Media – A term used to describe tools and platforms people use to produce, publish and share online content and to interact with one another. Social media tools include blogs, podcasts, videos, micro-blogs, wikis, etc.
Social Networking Sites – Large sites that host multiple communities comprised of people with profiles and similar interests. These sites offer a place where people engage with one another online and share content. Examples: Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter.
Tweet – A post/entry made on Twitter, limited to 140 characters
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Guests of Radford University, a Producer Patron for the evening, at the dinner: Mary Maghee (seated, l to r), Susan Sink, and Tammy Colvin. Lynne Geisz (standing, l to r), Greg Geisz, Jeff Mays, Dr. Faye Gilbert and Dr. Robert Colvin.
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In 1996 and 2000, he sought nomination as the Republican candidate for President and has been a constant campaigner for a flat tax replacement for the current federal tax system. As chairman and chief executive officer of Forbes Magazine, Steve Forbes has a bully pulpit for his bold prescriptions for everything from health care and Social Security reform to school choice and national defense.
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