Congratulations President Obama

In the 2008 campaign season, The Spoken Hub shaped its interactive phone technology to suit the objectives of Democratic campaigns. For our efforts, the American Association of Political Consultants awarded us the gold medal for "Most Innovative Use of Automated Technology."

Working with the Obama campaign, The Spoken Hub developed a "Neighborhood Organizing" tool that allowed the campaign to deliver localized messages from local voices at scale. Using the tool, the campaign could send out introductory voice messages from its principals and from other voices of the campaign's choosing. The voice messages then asked called parties to use key-presses to identify themselves as supporters who might either wish to join the campaign in their neighborhoods or to identify themselves as event attendees. The Organizing tool then enabled local organizers to deliver local messages in their own voices with information on a particular neighborhood's activities or specific events.

Here's what the Obama campaign had to say about our work:

"The Obama/Biden field campaign loved the Spoken Hub. They adapted auto calls that helped us engage new volunteers, including folks we simply wouldn't have found online. Plus, they were a pleasure to work with under high stress conditions. It’s not often that you call a vendor on a random Sunday night at 10 pm (or later) months before an election and get a response. I always felt like Spoken Hub folks were accessible and totally responsive. That and utterly competent."

- Jeremy Bird, Ohio General Election Director,

Obama/Biden Campaign

"The Spoken Hub's auto call technology really shined during the Obama campaign. The Hub rose to our challenge and together we broke new ground to make telephone technology effective in high speed, high intensity grassroots organizing. Plus they know how important customer service is, and how to deliver it time after time. A great team."

- Michael Simon, Manager of Targeting and Voter Contact, Obama/Biden Campaign