Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage Publics: Twitter Vote Report and Inauguration Report '09

July 8, 2009 - The Center for Social Media today announced a new field report that reviews Twitter Vote Report and Inauguration Report '09 -- two projects that demonstrated the potential of microblogging formats for election monitoring before the recent upheaval in Iran brought the topic to international attention. Read the entire report or download the pdf at their website (centerforsocialmedia.org).  This report follows their white paper Public Media 2.0: Dynamic Engaged Publics released in February 2009.