 Although this year was the first time U.S. citizens elected an African-American man, it also was the first time millions of voters learned essentially everything they knew about that new leader via media options that didn’t even exist — or hadn’t been widely used — during the last presidential race. The strategies and tactics of the 2008 presidential campaign signaled a game change in marketing techniques that the private sector has been slow to adopt. Businesses must learn to work with new media such as social networking and mobile devices — or risk falling behind. A new report by Rob Underwood, Adam Garrett, Laura Skladzinski, Nicole Gallagher, Andrei Vrabie and David Smith, of Deloitte Consulting LLP, discusses the following: To learn how businesses can borrow a page from the public sector playbook, download the full report below. Related Content: Overview: Leveraging New Media
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