Postcards
Power Point: Spend to grow
November 7, 2008: 4:49 PM ET"There is a time for budget austerity--this ain't it."
-- Obama economic advisor Jared Bernstein, noting that government "is the only part of GDP pulling out its wallet these days" and therefore the most reliable source of short-term growth. Read "CEO in chief" by my colleague Nina Easton, Fortune's Washington editor, for more about the all-star team of CEOs and thinkers who are helping the President-elect grapple with the financial crisis and the bailout plan.
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Obama's power in social networking
If Barack Obama wins the Presidency--which is ever more likely since he's leading in virtually all the polls--some credit must go to his campaign's embrace of new-fangled communication methods. Specifically, social networking. During a panel called "One Month to Go: The Road to the White House" at Fortune's recent Most Powerful Women Summit, Penny Pritzker, Obama's finance chair, talked about how his campaign had a scant 20,000 names early on, MORE
Patricia Sellers - Oct 17, 2008 1:02 PM ETPosted in: Barack Obama, California Governor, CEOs, Citigroup, eBay, FORTUNE MPWomen, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Karen Tumulty, Lisa Caputo, Meg Whitman, Most Powerful Women, Most Powerful Women Summit, Nina Easton, Penny Pritzker, politics, Postcards, Power Shift, presidential race, Silicon Valley, technology
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Fortune senior editor at large Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo," "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), and "Remodeling Martha" (Martha Stewart). She has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" package every year since its launch in 1998. Pattie is Executive Director of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business and beyond. She oversees MPW programs that enable women leaders to extend their influence and empower the next generation—such as Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs and the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Beyond her Fortune duties, she is also developing Live Content across Time Inc. Pattie grew up in Allentown, PA, graduated from the University of Virginia, and started at Fortune in 1984. Her blog, Postcards, is about how power players lead, manage others, and navigate their careers.
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