Below is this week's B2.0 update:

This week we're glad to have a conversation with James Andrews.  James is Vice President at Ketchum Interactive, specializing in the creation of online media/blogger strategy, web/application development, and content production.   James is also Founder of TheKeyinfluencer.com.  Additionally James is an Expert Blogger for FastCompany.com. 

With his unique perspective as a social media expert, James shares with us his professional and personal experiences attending last week's Democratic National Convention.  James fills us in on how social media infused the event, how the Democrats embraced the blogger community, and how he used Twitter and Facebook to connect with people while at the convention.  He also shares lessons he wants small businesses to learn from the Obama campaign's strategic use of mobile messaging as well as social media.

We also had the honor of having our original Barack 2.0 slide presentation featured on the homepage of SlideShare.net last week.  Here it is below. Please feel free to download at your convenience:

Here's the latest Barack 2.0 weekly update:

To download the mp3 just click here.

We do our weekly check on how many folks are following Senator Obama on Twitter, and also touch on the impact of the text message announcing the choice of Joe Biden as Obama's running mate.

We look at the impact the text message announcement had on Sprint:

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Here's is the latest B2.0 weekly update podcast:

On last week's update we pointed out that Barack was about 500 followers short of becoming the most followed person on Twitter.  It didn't take long for him to jump into the number one spot, as many media outlets pointed out - even TechCrunch covered it the day he took the top spot.  Obama now has more than 59,000 followers - over 2,000 more followers than the number two person on the list, Digg's Kevin Rose.

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Here's the latest edition of the B2.0 Weekly Update podcast:

On Sunday, the Obama campaign used Twitter to inform followers that their VP pick would be announced sometime between now and the start of the Democratic convention.

The way that this is being handled is causing significant buzz in the marketplace…

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Welcome to our first weekly podcast.  With these short audio programs we'll take a quick look at some of the latest ways the Obama campaign is utilizing social tools and strategies to drive their campaign.

Today Obama sent out a tweet from Twitter announcing his new energy plan.

This one tweet shifted the entire campaign in terms of use of social media application…

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• Part One - Barack 2.0 Webinar #1 Part 1
• Part Two - Barack 2.0 Webinar #1 Part 2

We've also put together an enhanced transcript of the webinar, complete with screenshots and links to the sites we discussed during the conversation:

• Barack 2.0 Webinar #1 Enhanced Transcript And Resource Guide

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Finally, feel free to check out the audio portion of the webinar for quick listening:

Please let us know if these has been helpful.  We also want to hear from you - tell us what you're interested in learning more about.  Let's make this a true conversation!

In many ways, the challenges Barack Obama's presidential campaign faces are representative of the obstacles we run into every day as small business owners and entrepreneurs.  It may not appear like this is the case, as we see him on television, on the cover of national publications and in photographs with world leaders. But that wasn't always the case, as many of us had never heard of him just four years ago.  And even when he announced his candidacy, he still wasn't taken seriously by political insiders…or outsiders for that matter.

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