Looks Like Everybody Wants to Join the Conversation
November 27th, 2008 Posted in socialmediaPresident-Elect Obama’s Change.gov site asks America to Join the Conversation
Not much time for a lengthy post this evening as I need to get ready for Thanksgiving and want to spend some time with the family. That being said, I was blown away by the recent outpouring of comments on the Change.gov site and feel compelled to jot down a few thoughts.
Yesterday afternoon, the site initiated a new feature entitled “Join the Discussion” with the question:
What worries you most about the healthcare system in our country?
In 24 hrs somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,000 comments have poured in. Being very interested in social media and how emerging technologies can be leveraged for the greater good, one of the first questions that comes to mind is how to make sense out of this information. The sheer volume poses considerable challenges and I am hoping to give some thought over the next few days (and hopeful a more detailed post) about what strategies could be used to maximize the value of this effort. My first attempt was to use one of my favorite online tools, Wordle, to generate a tag cloud for the comments in the RSS feed. If you look closely, four foreign counties are mentioned no this list. Anyone hear a call for a commission to examine other health care systems? Any other observations?
Photo Credit: Wordle.net
