It has been two weeks since the 2008 presidential election, and while the nation prepares for the historic “changing of the guard” from Bush to Obama, I just wanted to post a thank you blog to everyone who helped LIVElect have a successful one day run!
According to WordPress’ statistics, we achieved roughly 1,000 unique visitors to the site on election night. Thank you to everyone who followed our stream of posts, photos and tweets and passed the word along to their family and friends. We here at LIVElect were pleasantly suprised to find that so many people were interested in our humble little live-blog.
I would personally like to thank everyone who was involved in providing content to the site itself. A big thanks to Elizabeth Shell and Sophia Fuka who wrote many of the actual entries and helped develop the concept for the site. Thanks to Evan Wyloge and Carol Legg who provided breaking news live from the field, they were our “inside men” with the scoop. Evan also provided photos on site at the Arizona Biltmore at McCain HQ. Also, thank you to Jeremy Pennycook for providing photos as well. And thanks to Bekah Parsons for running food to us starving bloggers.
A big thanks goes to Lesley Jean Thornton and Bill Silcock for allowing us to partake in such a unique venture on election night. Also, thank you to Mark Lodato for giving up a few computer desks up for our LIVElect HQ at Cronkite NewsWatch.
Though I may be leaving people out, I do not do so intentionally, so thank you to everyone who helped in any small little way, from photos, to just plain positive encouragement. And again thanks to everyone who actually read our posts and passed the word along and helped us reach such a broad audience in one night.
Thank you all.
– Chris Cameron
livelect.wordpress.com 