Tech-savvy Obama outmaneuvering the media Aug 26, 2008
The Bush campaigns of 2000 and 2004 made huge strides in building databases of supporters, and Howard Dean demonstrated that digitally enabled like-minds can accomplish practical wonders. But the Obama campaign has used the Web to kick up a huge surge in youth voting and to reinforce its message through e-mail blasts, social networking, YouTube videos and streamed content all unmolested by the dreaded MSM - that would be the mainstream media. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
How Obama won Jun 4, 2008
Robb spent hours every day making phone calls, breaking down surveys on Iowans' sentiments and building databases of the results. He marveled at the intricacy of one of the Obama campaign's strategies, to enlist high school students old enough to caucus in the hope that they'd also sway their parents to the candidate. (AZCentral -- News)
McCain spends months on standby; Democrats rev up May 24, 2008
Instead of putting them to work building databases of voters and potential supporters, the campaign leaders told them to sit tight. If they don't think there's anything to be gained by having an office up and running on May 1 instead of June 1, they save how many thousands of dollars. (Rensselaer Republican, IN)
Nuclear 'return addresses' Apr 8, 2008
International cooperation on nuclear forensics requires everything from building databases to overcoming suspicions that the United States has ulterior motives. One possible forum is the existing , co-chaired by the United States and Russia, which own more than 90% of the world's nuclear weapons and related materials. (Yahoo News)
Broker Faces Increase of Part-time Agents Oct 1, 2007
Building databases of contacts, friends and family. Tell them, "Pick ten people you know a week, find out everything you can about them, and put all that into your database. What are their jobs, number of children, where do they go to school, what are the family's activities and interests, pets, approximate income range? Put all that into a database and a calendar rotation so you are calling them at least every three months to see how they are doing. Sooner or later, you're going to find out... (RealtyTimes)
Democrats LeadBy $100 MillionIn Money Race... Jul 23, 2007
Since then, Democrats -- led by Terry McAuliffe, then chairman of the DNC -- have invested heavily in building databases and Internet fund-raising tools to reach out to smaller donors. Mr. McAuliffe has proudly touted his "Demzilla" database, which includes detailed profiles of more than 150 million potential voters and donors and was credited with helping Mr. Kerry come close to matching President Bush in fund raising during the last presidential election. (The Drudge Report)
A THRILLER AS TOLD IN A BOMBAY BARROOM Jan 9, 2007
" Although unpredictable on the page, Chandra is soft-spoken and modest in person. The novelist was born in New Delhi, the eldest son of a corporate executive at a trading company. All of the women in his family are writers still working in India: His mother, now 75, wrote screenplays while he was growing up; one of his sisters is a filmmaker; another is a popular film critic. Chandra moved to California at 18 to attend Pomona College in Claremont (Los Angeles County). After graduation, he... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Return fraud crackdown Dec 7, 2006
To stay away from cheats, stores are using technology and building databases. "On the Money's" Rebecca Jarvis reports. (MSNBC -- Business)
On screen - Bacon's company makes video simple Oct 20, 2006
He started his career in a variety of technology jobs, in training and sales, building databases for companies such as and , and, to keep up with the times, managing Y2K reprogramming efforts for Concord-based. Next, Bacon was recruited by , a company that wanted him to help it put the Encyclopaedia Britannica online. (East Bay Business Times, CA)
Tracking raptors: Study targets area's osprey population Jul 14, 2006
By involving local students, Domenech and Greene can employ a small army to assist with monitoring the birds, taking census, building databases and even installing remote videocameras on nesting platforms so classes can have a bird's-eye view of osprey behavior. ne of our ultimate fantasies is to get satellite transmitters, so students can click on a Web site and see where their bird is wintering, Greene said. (Missoulian, MT)
News It’s baker, not rove May 24, 2006
This is all building databases so that they can work the next election. They haven t figured out who we voted for yet. (San Antonio Current, TX)
Computer systems assisting orthopaedic surgeons Jan 27, 2006
MEDAC developed two systems one for analysing digital X-Ray pictures, and the other for building databases of patient data following diagnosis, care and outcome. Profile (marketed as Orthoworks Care Manager) is a modular clinical data management system that enables the choice of particular areas of expertise. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
