The social media guru who co-engineered the campaign which saw Barack Obama elected has praised the Stories.coop digital campaign in the lead up to the UN International Year of Cooperatives.
I was excited to see Stories.coop stories are essential, Sam Graham-Felsen told delegates during his keynote speech at the International Co-operative Alliances General Assembly and conference in Cancun, Mexico on November 17, 2011.
Graham-Felsen said that the experience he gathered from the Obama campaign gave him the understanding that stories didnt just have to be easy to digest videos, but that even more complex tales had a wide reach.
The Obama campaign was notable for often telling the stories of grassroots supporters of the U.S. president, rather than inevitably featuring Obama himself.
During his speech, Graham-Felsen highlighted a global change in sentiment towards business. He caged 2011 in terms of a revolutionary year, like 1968 and 1989.
Particularly caught up in this global shift were the younger generations, he said. This is your moment to reach this generation.
Social media and story-telling were positive ways to help drive the messages of the co-operative movement.
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