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February 2, 2010 by Elias Shams Leave a comment

by Elias Shams
President Obama answers your questions live on YouTube today in one hour.

Referring to our last week coverage of President Obama State of the Union speech, the white house received about 12,000 questions on YouTube’s CitizenTube channel. The President is about answering them at 1:45 p.m EST.

The White House had a live stream of the speech that was embeddable on blogs or websites. Nearly 1.3 million people tuned into the WhiteHouse.gov’s live video feed of the speech. About 48 million people watched him on traditional television.

I don’t think he intends to answer all 12,000 questions , but he’ll get to as many as he can. Unlike the previous president, he won’t know which questions will be asked until he hears them during the interview.

It will be interesting to watch this.

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What Question Do You Have For The President Tonight?

January 27, 2010 by Elias Shams Leave a comment

by Elias Shams
Tonight at 9:00 p.m EST is your chance to ask questions from our President after his State of The Union speech on YouTube’s CitizenTube channel as well as on The White House’s brand new iPhone app.

YouTube will be opening up a special Moderator series for citizens to submit their questions.

Following the President’s speech, all of you will be able to submit a question and vote on others at YouTube.com/CitizenTube. Then next week, the President will answer questions in a special online event, live from the White House.

So, for clarification, a) President Obama will NOT be answering those questions TONIGHT b) You need to get your circle of family members and friends to vote on your questions once submitted.

Read more on the YouTube blog and the White House blog.

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