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Join me in the PickensPlan Virtual March
AutoConversion.net
March 25, 2009
“Because of its robust online presence (Pickens uses Ning as its primary website), I have been able to keep in the loop of its activities and growth. My mission as of late is to get more involved and serve more as an activist. Like many Americans, I believe the energy independence is the best path and the right path for this once great nation.” Click here to read the full story.
Five Ways the Pickens Plan is Using Social Networking to Build Public Support
The Bivings Report
February 10, 2009
“A few weeks ago one of the projects Bivings works on, the Pickens Plan, won a Reed Award for best use of social networking technology. Since its launch in July, the Pickens Plan has recruited 1.4 million supporters and built a social network, Push.PickensPlan.com, consisting of 200,000 hardcore activists. Following are a couple of the key elements of the Pickens Plans’ social networking strategy that helped ensure their success.” Click here to read the full story.
Obama’s Not the Only One Who Gets Social Media
Social Media Today
February 2, 2009
“I’ve been fascinated by this campaign since it launched last summer, particularly because of its inarguable success: the web site now has 1.4 M registered members, known as Boone’s Army, and it also gets high points for user experience and navigability. Plus you have to admire that an octogenarian like Pickens (as opposed to say someone like Obama) has so thoroughly embraced and “gotten” social media.” Click here to read the full story.
PickensPlan – Saving America with Alternative Energy Sources
AutoConversion.net
July 23, 2008
“Whoever is behind PickensPlan from the Online Marketing standpoint is friggin on his game.” Click here to read the full story.
PickensPlan.com Uses Social Media Activism
Digitalsapien.com
July 15, 2008
“He’s making savvier use of social media elements than a group of teenage girls the day after a high school prom. And this is exactly how it’s supposed to be done.” Click here to read the full story.
Pickens Goes For The Grass Roots
Forbes.com Clean Tech Blog
July 11, 2008
“The campaign also has an in-depth social networking Web site that allows users to join, post a profile with photos, invite friends and share “ideas and tactics on how to make energy the most important issue in this election.” They can also read and watch Pickens’ latest Twitter and blog postings (some in video) or link to his profiles on LinkedIn, MySpace and Facebook, where the Pickens Plan has accumulated 17,750 members since Tuesday.” Click here to read the full story.
Pickens looks to new methods of communication
News 9 (Oklahoma)
July 9, 2008
“To gain support for his new plan, Pickens turned to new methods of communication and explained his ideas to a younger audience through some popular internet sites.” Click here to read the full story.
The Pickens Plan: A Lesson in the Power of Social Networking
CustomersAreAlways.com
July 8, 2008
“Pickens is all over the social networking websites hoping to create communities of supporters. And although the regular news articles will get buried deep in the archives, The Pickens Plan will continue to spread because of all the online social networking communities.” Click here to read the full story.
T. Boone Pickens Has a Plan
GreenTechMedia.com
July 8, 2008
“Pickens will promote his plan in TV ads, while his Website, Pickens Plan, offers Facebook and MySpace widgets to help distribute his views.” Click here to read the full story.
T. Boone Pickens: A man with an energy plan
CNET.com: Green Tech Blog
July 8, 2008
“But the conversion of a famed and politically conservative oil prospector to a proponent of wind power will no doubt be eye-opening to people who still associate renewable energy with fringe environmentalists. He’s also adding some social-networking savvy. The Pickens Plan site has a way for groups and individuals to join the group or to carry the Pickens Plan badge on their site. And to further solidify his social-networking cred, Pickens has a Facebook page for his plan.” Click here to read the full story.
