Mashable Connect Day 2 - #mashcon

May 5: Highlighted social content from the second day of sessions from Mashable Connect at Walt Disney World.

  1. Missed Day 1 highlights? Take a look back! 
  2. Session #1: David v. Goliath: Round II: Digital is Still Shaking Up Our Politics, but Will Politics Shake Up Digital?
    Joe Trippi (@joetrippi), Political Strategist and Author

  3. David v Goliath: Round II: Digital is shaking up our politics, but will politics shake up digital? @JoeTrippi #MashCon
  4. .@joetrippi: Old guard believes the shift from radio to TV to Internet is just a shift in communication. #mashcon
  5. @JoeTrippi: Rise of social media is similar to the social shift that occurred with the invention of the printing press. #MashCon
  6. .@joetrippi: "And then the printing press happened and all hell broke loose." #MashCon
  7. .@JoeTrippi Shift in power happening in politics, journalism and corporate America. Internet has sparked an "Age of Empowerment." #MashCon
  8. We are in the Empowerment Age. People are gaining more power. We can all create content. #mashcon -@joetrippi
  9. The internet is creating self-organized armies of Davids to take on Goliath. via @JoeTrippi #MashCon
  10. You want to be a company that hands out the slingshots to the armies of Davids. via @JoeTrippi #MashCon
  11. How can we use social media to achieve change? Hand out slingshots, empower people. @joeTrippi #mashcon
  12. Apple's iPads equal slingshots for an army of Davids...taking on Goliath. Lets do this #mashcon day 3 via @JoeTrippi
  13. "Parties have to trust the people before the people will ever trust the parties," @joetrippi #mashcon http://pic.twitter.com/rAfdg2hY
  14. Build trust, build form the bottom, don’t do backroom deals - @joetrippi's advice to political strategists. #mashcon
  15. No FB, no Twitter, The coolest invention in the time of the Howard Dean campaign was Meetup.com @joetrippi #mashcon
  16. The first "Mashable" governing moment, Goodluck Jonathan, the Facebook President #mashcon
  17. .@joetrippi: The network is getting bigger every day. 1.4MM blogs at the end of Dean campaign. 77MM when Obama in '08. #mashcon
  18. Joe Trippi, who did election campaign for Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan: they started calling him the Facebook candidate. #AJStream @ #MashCon
  19. .@JoeTrippi: Most of what we did in Jonathan campaign was FB, Twitter, etc. but also text msg-centered. #MashCon
  20. .@joetrippi: Goodluck Jonathan's Nigerian presidential campaign was announced on Social Media. More FB likes than all but Obama. #mashcon
  21. Fire for the first time = real time political conversations on Facebook @joetrippi #mashcon
  22. A Facebook fan comment suggested Nigeria create a SanFran consulate. So they did 4 days later. via @JoeTrippi #MashCon

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