CHICAGO: President-elect Barack Obama is planning his first presidential address on web videos too. His speech will be available on YouTube for Internet viewers.
Franklin Roosevelt talked to the people through the radio at the same time John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan mastered television.
About 75 years after Roosevelt used a new medium to reach out during troubled times, the president-elect is doing the same with Web videos.
And now for Obama, who built a big part of his campaign on the Internet, it’s YouTube.
Obama was recording a four-minute address Friday at his transition office in Chicago.
It will be posted Saturday through a YouTube link on his transition Web site, http://www.change.gov. But Internet users will be able to see the speech when he’ll continue his office on Jan. 20.
It’s being said that the videos are part of the team’s effort to build on a campaign model that helped Obama reach millions of voters online during the presidential race. It’s a potentially powerful electronic tool in new digital outreach effort aimed at supporters.
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IT is great that obamas speech will be available on YouTube for Internet viewers.
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